As the world continues to warm from climate change, most of California — including San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay — will see a greater rise in sea level than other parts of the planet, according to a prominent national study released Friday.
The report, from the National Academy of Sciences, found that the impacts of melting ice and warming, expanding oceans will hit California harder because most of the state’s coast line is slowly sinking due to geological forces. Ocean levels south of Humboldt County will rise up to 1 foot in the next 20 years, 2 feet by 2050, and up to 5 feet by 2100, the study showed.
San Francisco Bay already has risen roughly 7 inches in the past 100 years, as measured by the tidal gauge at Fort Point, under the Golden Gate Bridge.
Sea level to rise higher in California due to global warming, geology – MontereyHerald.com :
The graph below is the tide gauge data for Fort Point for the last twenty years, and what would have to happen for sea level to rise a foot in the next twenty years.
http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/10.php
Are this people criminal, or just criminally stupid?
Hey , if that guy gallalio the astronomer came along today with his new ideas the NAS would be the first in line to hang him on a cross. I don’t know how those people think this idiocy would be acceptable to thinking people. With the exception of some tide gauges sinking due to subsidence there is no evidence of sea level rising in any alarming manner. I think you are right , Steven , every generation has its’ witch burners and charalatans and these guys are some of them. They make any statement they think they can get away with in order to bring worry to the people so that the people will look to them for guidance. Create a problem and then solve it so they can be heros and recieve rewards.
The National Academy of Sciences, huh? What a complete load of baloney. The Academy is now delving into highly controversial and politicized topics, going to bat exclusively for the leftists. Their taxpayer funding needs to be cut off if they are going to continue to be a propaganda arm of the Democratic party.
Their taxpayer funding needs to be cut off if they are going to continue to be a propaganda arm of the Democratic party.
Which is another way to say, their taxpayer funding needs to be cut off.
As usual you are cherry picking data:
http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/rlr.monthly.plots/10_high.png
Your level of dissonance is astonishing.
The period in question is 20 years, and I showed the decline over the last twenty years. Any sane, rational person would realize that there is no basis for the claims of rapid sea level rise over the next twenty years.
And to further your idiocy, you post the same link that I put in my article. You are like Pavlov’s dogs, you react without any thought.
No doubt you are aware that sea level rose very quickly 10,000 years ago.
I’m still waiting for him to acknowledge the peer-reviewed research that shows the Antarcic has not warmed up one bit in the last 550 years. Eh, wot?
Even your quoted source only has a rise that is approximately 4 inches/century and falling.
That still shows the statement “The report, from the National Academy of Sciences, found that the impacts of melting ice and warming, expanding oceans will hit California harder because most of the state’s coast line is slowly sinking due to geological forces. Ocean levels south of Humboldt County will rise up to 1 foot in the next 20 years, 2 feet by 2050, and up to 5 feet by 2100, the study showed.” is bogus.
A 5 feet/century rise would mean a more than 12 times acceleration in the rate of rise.
Therefore can we all agree such scare reports are utter nonsense and offer no basis to spend tax payer money on this report, or flood defenses? Computer modeling is not reality.
“Are this people criminal, or just criminally stupid?”
The answer is “yes.” So why do people continue to give any credence to Hansen et al? Let me quote Bill Bonner, and even though he was addressing a question of politics, the truth is, CAGW is a political, not a scientific credo.
“In the investment markets, a man gets what he deserves. But in politics, he gets what his idiot neighbor deserves. And one thing you can count on is that the guy next door will vote for a man who at least appears to be as dull and stupid as he is. The reason for that is very simple. The mediocre, lumpenvoter believes his opinions are better than those of anyone else. He looks for his own stupid face reflected in the views of his political leaders. Someone who has actually thought deeply about issues is not only alien to him, but offensive. The complexities and ironies of the situation bewilder and annoy him. So, he turns for comfort and assurance to the simple-minded candidate with the simple-minded opinions.”
Ask yourself, how many times have you had some CAGW enthusiast tell you, “It is just simple physics!” Anyone who is so ill informed that they can think that the study of climate is “just simple physics” will fall for any lie, so long as it is simple.
Also the authors forgot to mention the planet is no longer warming. Did they not check the HadCRUT temperatures, which actually show a -0.12 global cooling trend over the past 15 years through April 2012. Even CRU’s Phil Jones, a member of the “team,” had to admit in a BBC interview that there has been no statistically significant warming since 1995.
The alarmists never let facts get in the way of a good scare story.
http://www.c3headlines.com/global-cooling-dataevidencetrends/
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My vision of the sea level crooks involves handcuffs .
Of the 7 inches in 100 years at San Francisco, how much was due to subsidence?