Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Sea-Level Rise
Question: By what percentage have flooding incidents increased in Southern Florida in the past 10 years?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: This is caused by the one-two punch of melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica, combined with the expansion of the ocean waters due to their retaining heat, a phenomenon that is happening at a far greater rate than was believed as recently as a year ago.
Craig,
You continue to deliberately misinterpret a rise in sea levels with weather events in a bid to “prove’ an ideological agenda lacking any evidence.
There is no real evidence of sea level rises occurring due to ice melt. That’s just simplistic alarmist propaganda that sounds logical to the uninformed and tabloid press.
10 years is an absurdly insignificant measurement, and no serious scientist would employ such a short period to measure coastal
I repeat my previous observation, “But where is the evidence? If the “bad science” is removed, (that’s when a theory is conceived and then evidence is sought to confirm the theory, ignoring any contrary explanations) no evidence exists of any significant rise in sea levels due to polar melt.
Many low lying islands which should be underwater by now if the prediction of GW/CC advocate were accurate, have actually increased in land area and height !
The reasons for this phenomenon are largely little understood, while theories abound about the behavior of underwater volcanic activity and seabed compaction.
That’s the problem with ascribing simplistic predictions to complex issues”
President of the International Sea Level Institute and former CEO of both International SeaKeepers and The Cousteau Society Dr John Englander and internationally respected oceanographer, marine scientist leading expert on sea level rise, recently published a series of papers on sea level rises and falls.
Dr Englander’s acclaimed book, ‘High Tide On Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis’ has been the text book for alarmist advocates, cautions:
” Over the last decade sea level has been rising faster and faster. I often hear from property owners in low-lying coastal communities who are very worried about the increasing rate and where it is headed. Most are surprised to learn that from now until 2024, that peak daily sea levels – at peak high tide – will appear to go down in most places. We need to understand the rather mysterious 19-year tide cycle that is having this effect.
Dr Englander is honest enough to admit, the assumption that sea levels are 10 inches higher than 200 years ago, may be inaccurate or even if accurate due to a complex set of factors unrelated to polar melt or GW/CC.
In 2011, the Smithsonian Institute held a conference attended by some of the world’s leading climate scientists, many of whom had spent many years studying Ice melt across the planet.
When asked what studies had been conducted into sea bed compaction, atmospheric absorption, voluminous increase, it was discovered less than 1% of the resources had been dedicated to research these aspects.
Almost no scientist was studying the effects of natural coastline alterations including marine volcanic activity. When asked about the immense rise in the Pacific Ocean sea bed in 1978 due to underwater activity, most of the scientist were either ignorant or dismissed the event as insignificant and irrelevant.
Dr Englander’s theory goes a long way to explaining why in the past 4 years sea levels have actually been falling according to NASA.
“flooding incidents increased in Southern Florida in the past 10 years” .
Flooding is neither new, nor more extensive in Southern Florida taken over a reasonable time period. In fact, the region has experienced far more damaging weather of the centuries.
The main difference is population and construction of heavy buildings, roads and other infrastructure. In the early 1400’s the area was wracked by colossal storms an more than 12% of land loss. The main difference was no one, except a small native population was around to record the ferocity of the storms.