Sea levels are measured by a variety of methods that show close agreement - sediment cores, tidal gauges, satellite measurements. What they find is sea level rise has been steadily accelerating over the past century.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/sea-le ... ediate.htm
Borrowed Time on Disappearing Land
Facing Rising Seas, Bangladesh Confronts the Consequences of Climate Change
Bangladeshis have already started to move away from the lowest-lying villages in the river deltas of the Bay of Bengal, scientists in Bangladesh say. People move for many reasons, and urbanization is increasing across South Asia, but rising tides are a big factor. Dr. Rahman’s research group has made a rough estimate from small surveys that as many as 1.5 million of the five million slum inhabitants in Dhaka, the capital, moved from villages near the Bay of Bengal.
The slums that greet them in Dhaka are also built on low-lying land, making them almost as vulnerable to being inundated as the land villagers left behind.
Ms. Khatun and her neighbors have lived through deadly cyclones — a synonym here for hurricane — and have seen the salty rivers chew through villages and poison fields. Rising seas are increasingly intruding into rivers, turning fresh water brackish. Even routine flooding then leaves behind salt deposits that can render land barren.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/29/world ... .html?_r=0
rockdoc123 wrote:Actually one IS a total imbecile to believe that correlation proves causation.
Perhaps you could also point out that the number of teenage pregnancies has been steadily rising over this period....or the number of microbreweries has been steadily increasing....these are also observations that correlate with rising temperature. Hence increased friskiness of the teenage population or the need for a multitude of different varieties of Indian Pale Ale must be responsible for climate change.
If the US tax payers want to spend their money on relocating folks who KNOWINGLY built communities in areas that were subsiding and would eventually be claimed by the GOM that’s OK by me. But let’s not confuse building in areas that could never be maintained and the potential problems with global SLR caused by man’s activities.
no really substantial mitigation efforts of any kind are happening anywhere in the world that I am aware of.
Lore wrote:First of all, maybe we should explain to KJ what the difference is between a scientific theory and a hypothesis is?
dohboi wrote:ol wrote:no really substantial mitigation efforts of any kind are happening anywhere in the world that I am aware of.
Netherlands. But then they've been at this game for a good long while.
Last month in Greenland, more than a tenth of the ice sheet’s surface was melting in the unseasonably warm spring sun, smashing 2010’s record for a thaw so early in the year. In the Antarctic, warm water licking at the base of the continent’s western ice sheet is, in effect, dissolving the cork that holds back the flow of glaciers into the sea; ice is now seeping like wine from a toppled bottle...
The planet’s polar ice is melting fast, and recent satellite data, models, and fieldwork have left scientists sobered by the speed of the sea level rise we should expect over the coming decades. Although researchers have long projected that the planet’s biggest ice sheets and glaciers will wilt in the face of rising temperatures, estimates of the rate of that change keep going up...
Eric Rignot at the University of California, Irvine says that study underscores the possible speed of ice sheet melt and collapse.
“Once these processes start to kick in,” he says, “they’re very fast.”
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rockdoc123 wrote:this is completely wrong. Any theory once it has had any doubt shed on it needs to be rejected and reworked. That is the basic tenant of scientific endeavours. You are completely wrong on this. I'm a scientist, something I know a bit about.
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