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The report, reassessing records from more than 600 tidal gauges, found that readings from 1901-90 had over-estimated the rise in sea levels. Based on revised figures for those years, the acceleration since then was greater than so far assumed.
The report said the earlier readings were incomplete or skewed by local factors such as subsidence.
The new analysis "suggests that the acceleration in the past two decades is 25 percent higher than previously thought," Carling Hay, a Canadian scientist at Harvard University and lead author of the study in the journal Nature, told Reuters.
The study said sea level rise, caused by factors including a thaw of glaciers, averaged about 1.2 millimeters (0.05 inch) a year from 1901-90 - less than past estimates - and leapt to 3 mm a year in the past two decades, apparently linked to a quickening thaw of ice.
Here we revisit estimates of twentieth-century GMSL rise using probabilistic techniques
The report, reassessing records from more than 600 tidal gauges, found that readings from 1901-90 had over-estimated the rise in sea levels. Based on revised figures for those years, the acceleration since then was greater than so far assumed.
originally posted by: pheonix358
The beach is still where it should be. It is not lapping up against or flowing over the road.
There is still sand on the beach to sunbathe.
Look, anyone living near the beach knows this is a crock of dog poo.
Climate changes. It always has and it always will. But right now, it does no seem tobe a problem, just go to the beach and reassure yourself.
I wish these paid scientists would understand that all we have to do is take the kids to the beach for a day to know how stupid this sort of thing is.
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I don't think the rise is uniform all around the planet. I was in Martha's Vineyard last summer and I heard from some of the locals how water levels were increasing but in increments.
originally posted by: pheonix358
a reply to: Agit8dChop
Oh for heavens sake! It is water! It finds its own level.
As I stated earlier, while their are tidal forces, all of the oceans are joined together.
So yes, in general terms, what happens at my beach, happens at yours.
You do know that water always finds its own level.
Ah so it be. From reading the articles one would believe differently based on the spin.
originally posted by: CranialSponge
a reply to: Bilk22
Um, that's the exact same study with the exact same scientists...