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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Oceans Rising AND Land Rising, too!
2015-04-01
Yet there are even longer-term impacts that most people might not notice. For instance, if you live in Canada, the northern U.S. or parts of Europe, the earth beneath your feet is rising. The reason is, more or less, because of the weather.

Not weather like yesterday's rain, or last week's wind. This phenomenon was caused by snows that piled up to create great ice sheets that covered the land in the last Ice Age. OK, it was a lot of snow, over a long period of time, so it's probably better described as climate than just weather.
I thought warmer was climate and cooler was weather.
I'm in the Global Cooling camp, myself. North America is tilting upward because of the weight of all that snow in northern Canada. New Orleans is gonna be 11 feet above where she sits now in only 32,000 years. Fix that problem and it'll be Global Stable for the next 72,000 years. At that point the continent will start sinking again because of the additional weight caused by overpopulation. We should probably start planning right now for the sake of our remote descendants. Of course, that'll take quite a bit of money...
The Earth's surface rises about 1 millimeter a month in Canada and about the same amount over the course of a year in the U.S., she said. For a place like Canada's Hudson Bay, the changes would be apparent over a person's lifetime, she said.
That's a long time to stand in one place...
"If you have a dock that you built, the ocean appears to be going down," Damiani said.
Up down, up down, warmer, cooler. I'm so confused. Ya suppose it might all average out?
When researchers calculate the rise of the world's oceans because of the current melting of glaciers and ice sheets, they need to keep the rebound rates in mind, according to a December 2012 NOAA report.
But when the glaciers melt, then the land will rise, compensating for the loss of seashore, right?
The motion is tracked using global positioning satellites and is used in making sure maps stay accurate, Damiani said.
This is the same GPS used to show that sea levels vary by as much as 150 feet, due to local variations in gravity, right?
Posted by:Bobby

#11  Test
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-04-01 23:43  

#10  still waiting for Guam to tip ovah!
Posted by: Frank G   2015-04-01 21:02  

#9  Well if we all wait another 46,000 years the land will sink again and the sea levels will drop when the new ice age hits.

Global warming, is there nothing it can't do?
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-04-01 18:57  

#8  And here I thought the North American continent was sinking under the weight of all those National Geographic issues piled up in basements and attics.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-04-01 17:58  

#7   I think we can fix it if we all jump up and down at the exact same time.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-04-01 16:37  

#6  I think we can fix it if we all just up and down at the exact same time.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-04-01 16:20  

#5  "If you have a dock that you built, the ocean appears to be going down," that is assuming you check at the same time everyday (adjusted by the almanic for high and low tide) and the water shows no waves so you can get an accurate measurement to the MM and your dock was built on cement connected to mainland so the pilings don't settle in the mud or sand.

They used mm a month instead of 12mm a year or 120 mm every decade because it defies the obvious visual non-instrument checks people are more likely to do.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-04-01 14:28  

#4  More taxes will solve everything.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2015-04-01 12:34  

#3  Also if the floating arctic ice all melts, sea level will FALL.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2015-04-01 12:30  

#2  Given that the entire universe is expanding, it is only natural that the land and the oceans would both be rising. It's SCIENCE, bitches.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-04-01 12:16  

#1  I'm in the Global Cooling camp, myself. North America is tilting upward because of the weight of all that snow in northern Canada.

I dunno, I was thinking it was the huge mass of Chinese on the other side of the planet who were throwing the planet axis off kilter. Dynamics problem, not a GW or climate change problem.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-04-01 06:53  

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