"Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries"

[bluemingidiot]

Emissions, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, are causing the ocean to rise at the fastest rate since at least the founding of ancient Rome, scientists said, along with, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling. It hit us on the head.”


www.cnbc.com/2016/02/23/seas-are-rising-at-fastest-rate-in-last-28-centuries.html


Eight Million Tons of just Plastic is Dumped in Ocean Every Year.


Now I am not a physics major but I do know that if I add additional mass to fluid in a container, the mass will displace some of the fluid and the fluid will rise.


Interesting that the NYTimes isn’t so concerned about this.


news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150212-ocean-debris-plastic-garbage-patches-science/

[here to stay]

I read something in the local paper about the prospective inundation on the local coast being caused by the ground subsiding due to being in the subduction zone the Cascadia fault rather than the sea level rising. Does make you wonder.

[bluemingidiot]

For 300 years, the sea has been closing in on New Orleans. As the coastal erosion continues, it is estimated the city will be off shore in 90 years. Even in good weather, New Orleans is sinking."

www.cbsnews.com/news/new-orleans-is-sinking/

[Skandi]

I think I remember being taught that one of the reasons new orleans is sinking is due to the dams further up river, less sediment comming down means less delta building and therefore loss of land, they are having the same issues in Egypt on the Nile delta.

[bluemingidiot]

The land New Orleans is built on is like a huge sponge. As water was pumped (dried) out, the sponge got smaller (sunk). New Orleans is like so many other parts of the world. They are not all built on large areas of sponge-like soil but for various reasons they can only handle limited population (change).

[Melissa]

The earth is in a constant state of chaos...

[bluemingidiot]

In Greek mythology, Chaos was the primeval void, was the first thing which existed. Next" (possibly out of Chaos) came Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros. Gaia, Ancient Greek "land" or "earth"; also spelled Gaea, was the personification of the Earth.

So yes, the Earth is in constant chaos, which today we call Mother Nature. And is often said in many families, "If mother ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."