 While a small minority of the political-class public has vocally argued with the majority of politically correct scientists and progressive pundits scientists about the causes for existence of climate change, melting polar ice, and rising sea levels, tidal recordings in the Chesapeake Bay have quietly shown a sea level rise double that of the global average for the last 60 years. Known as the relative sea-level rise, the increases currently measure 3.4 mm/yr versus the global average of 1.7 mm/yr. Researchers have now established why the region is seeing the fastest increases in sea level along the United States's East Coast: the entire Chesapeake Bay region is sinking.
Fred! Get outta there! Move to higher ground!
While this might sound like the next generation of Hollywood blockbusters-the film industry having exhausted asteroids, volcanoes, tsunamis, and earthquakes-the reason the region is sinking is yet another global change that is related to melting ice sheets.
But not the ice sheets that are supposedly melting today, but the ones that melted over 10,000 years ago. It's complicated, but suggests maybe other ocean levels rising are not as simplistic as Al Gore thinks |