Re:Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse in Some Places?
by BigCryo on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:49AM
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Because overall it has not risen at all?
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Re:Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse in Some Places?
by thombat on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:52AM
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For that to be true there would be plenty of places where it's falling. Are there?
Re:Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse in Some Places?
by flavius29663 on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @11:24AM
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there absolutely are, a google away https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/
But they are generally rising, just not more than compared with pre-industrial era.
Re:Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse in Some Places?
by ohdearno on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:42PM
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I mean, "plenty" isn't really true based on that link.
A best you could say "a few, in areas that are losing glaciers, which is expected due to basic physics"
Re:Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse in Some Places?
by thombat on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:50PM
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That map clearly shows that only a few locations are experiencing a fall, so neither "plenty" nor summing to zero as claimed. But I'm interested to learn more about the evidence that the pre-industrial trend was the same, since my inexpert googling suggests otherwise, eg "Exceptionally stable preindustrial sea level inferred from the western Mediterranean Sea"
Re:Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse in Some Places?
by ohdearno on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:57PM
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It's risen ~97mm since 1993. The rate of increase in that rise has been increasing steadily since ~1993. The consistency of our data has also been much better since then (previously it was only the highly noisy coastal tide gauge data).
Fun fact: the slowest its been in the last century was when we did a crap-ton of dam projects in the 50s-70s, still rose, but very little.
Re:Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse in Some Places?
by consumer451 on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @05:24PM
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Last I looked at the data, sea levels in Key West had risen by around one foot in the last hundred years.