Sea Level Rise Accelerating For US East Coast, Fastest Rise in The World!

Whats making the sea level rise? Don't say melting ice caps.

"We cannot expect as a society to respond to accelerating sea level rise if we can't even respond to linear sea level rise and storms," he said. "Every single storm is an opportunity to take a step back from the coast. Instead, coastal development continues."

Young cited the example of Dauphin Island, Ala., which has been inundated by storms eight times in 26 years. Each time, he said, the federal government has stepped in and paid to rebuild the island's infrastructure. "That's crazy," Young said.

How do the oceans rise faster in one place?

swag

Also we have increasing of EQ activity at East Coast last months-years ..

Probably we can expect same trend in future ..

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 11/10/2012 08:01 PM

May be the land is slowly sinking too.

That is a good question, I would have thought it would rise at the same rate everywhere. Might be something to do with the shape of the sea floor in the area or something, like tsunamis can be worse on some coasts because of the shape of the sea floor.

US geologists say East Coast earthquakes travel farther, do more damage than thought before ..

By Associated Press, Published: November 6

RICHMOND, Va. — Data from the 2011 earthquake centered in Virginia shows East Coast tremors can travel much farther and cause damage over larger areas than previously thought, the U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday.

The agency estimated about one-third of the U.S. population could have felt the magnitude 5.8 tremor centered about 50 miles northwest of Richmond, which would mean more people were affected than any earthquake in U.S. history. Scientists also found the quake that caused more than $200 million in damage triggered landslides at distances four times farther and over an area 20 times larger than research from previous quakes has shown.

[link to www.washingtonpost.com]

US East, West Coasts face fast-rising sea levels

Two new reports indicate that sea-level rise will put the hurt on both the East and West coasts of the US, and that if one of the West Coast's all-too-familiar major earthquakes should occur, things could get mighty dicey mighty fast.

According to the US Geological Survey – hardly a hotbed of wild-eyed alarmists – the East Coast is experiencing sea-level rise at about three to four times that of global rise, the USGS's report concludes.

"Many people mistakenly think that the rate of sea level rise is the same everywhere as glaciers and ice caps melt, increasing the volume of ocean water, but other effects can be as large or larger than the so-called 'eustatic' rise," said USGS Director Marcia McNutt when announcing the report.

[link to www.theregister.co.uk]

Sea Level Rise Accelerating in U.S. Atlantic Coast

[link to www.usgs.gov]


The accelerating rise

And this rise is accelerating, said Tal Ezer, a researcher at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.

His colleague, Larry Atkinson, said computer models suggest that if this acceleration continues at the same pace, the rise along the East Coast — from North Carolina to Massachusetts — could be 5.3 feet (1.6 meters) by 2100.

Sea levels on this stretch of land have climbed as much as 1.5 inches (3.7 centimeters) per decade since 1980, while globally they've risen up to 0.4 inches (1.0 cm) per decade, according to a study by Sallenger published in June.

Why is the rise accelerating? Researchers said it's due in part to the sinking of land in the mid-Atlantic, a process called subsidence. Also, warming oceans have decreased the flow rate of the Gulf Stream, a current that ferries warm water from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico northeast across the Atlantic. With a less intense Gulf Stream, water is backed up toward the shore, causing sea level rise. Differences in coastal geography, temperature and salinity (salt content) cause different rates of rise along the East Coast, Atkinson said.

Sea levels worldwide are rising due to melting of glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as expansion of water caused by heating, researchers said. [8 Ways Global Warming Is Already Changing the World]

[link to www.livescience.com]

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 11/10/2012 07:32 PM

it's the fucking current you morans

Hotspot of accelerated sea-level rise on the Atlantic coast of North America

[link to www.nature.com]

Full-PDF

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along with gravity changes, and 'buoy anomalies'

i said when those buoy weirdnesses happened to look out for sea level changes, and voila, here they are

List of New York hurricanes

Name-year-number of deaths

New England Hurricane of 1938 600
Hurricane Sandy 2012 250+
Hurricane Edna 1954 29
1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane 1821 17
1894 Hurricane Five 1894 10
Hurricane Agnes 1972 6
1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane 1944 6
Hurricane Irene 2011 5
Tropical Storm Cristobal 2002 3
Tropical Storm Beryl 1994 2
Hurricane Bob 1991 2
Hurricane Floyd 1999 2
Hurricane Belle 1976 1
Hurricane Gloria 1985 1
Hurricane Isabel 2003 1
Hurricane Frances 2004 1
Tropical Storm Tammy 2005 1

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 11/10/2012 07:44 PM

Costliest known Atlantic Tropical Cyclones as of 2012
in USD

$108.0 Hurricane Katrina[1] 2005
$52.4‡† Hurricane Sandy[2] 2012
$37.6 Hurricane Ike[3][4] 2008
$29.2 Hurricane Wilma[5][6][7][8] 2005
$26.5 Hurricane Andrew[9] 1992

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 11/10/2012 07:48 PM

Hurricane Sandy did an estimated $50 billion in property damage, the second most destructive in U.S. history after Katrina.

[link to thetandd.com]

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Also Sandy was Category 1 when hit NY area !

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 11/10/2012 07:56 PM

I like giraffes

Maybe the Moon is moving closer ??

John Titor, right again.

Water reacts to gravity. Gravity is not universally the same on Earth. Some spots have greater or lesser gravity. Water is pretty heavy and some places have more elastic properties in the crust structure. One example is the Gulf of Mexico area. A small increase in water depth has a magnified increase of the sea floor subsidence because the crust is balloon like there. For the east coast of America I have read that title waves or tsunami can punch down the coast a bit with no rebound. It is thought that even continuous large waves can have this effect. Recent studies have shown that large waves impacting the shore can be detected far inland and can be a factor in earth activity. Another force is extreme low pressure systems that carry a crown of water with them across seismic sensitive areas. The added water weight makes itself known to any lesser structure.

OK. I'll say the Coast is sinking.

Pakistan has sunk 10 feet this year as seen by Nasa's Earth Changes Satelite. They announced it this summer when they could not explain the ( Flooding ) that just would not go away ( Drain ) afterwards. It has made millions homeless this year.

Vietnam is now doing the same thing on its Southern Coast.

in newfoundland canada the sea level has dropped its visable

it is called beach erosion

I've been thinking about those Navy doom maps after Sandy. Seems like the East Coast is really getting beaten back.

The ocean cannot rise on one area and not in another. It's a basic law of physics.


Some very pathetic fake scientists need to go back to elementary school.

what about pole shift or inside job by aquaman?

The floor is rising, this is why the water is rising. Although yes Glacier melt is a contributor.
The floor off the coast has risen around 2000'...

Yeah it is serious, and yeah it has gotten media coverage, just not the attention and urgency needed. Then again what can we do... They have yet to admit how bad it is.

Anything else more nature guna throw at us? Were just getting started :/