gold_medal
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MOTR wrote on Jan 13 th, 2013 at 8:22pm: gold_medal wrote on Jan 13 th, 2013 at 8:01pm: MOTR wrote on Jan 13 th, 2013 at 7:05pm: Maqqa wrote on Jan 13 th, 2013 at 7:03pm: MOTR wrote on Jan 13 th, 2013 at 6:56pm: So what's the current annual rise in sea levels, Maqqa? the classic divert tactics I just wanted to be sure you understood that thermal expansion was the major contributor to the rise in sea level. and few mms of it. hottest temperatures in history and the rise is MILLIMETRES?? by your own statements, sea level reise is no problem at all. You have a very shallow understanding if the problem, goldie. It doesn't take much to double the risk of flooding in some areas. Quote:A study published last March by Climate Central found sea-level rise due to global warming had already doubled the risk of extreme flood events – so-called once in a century floods – for dozens of locations up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
It singled out the California cities of Los Angeles and San Diego on the Pacific coast and Jacksonville, Florida, and Savannah, Georgia, on the Atlantic, as the most vulnerable to historic flooding due to sea-level rise.
Sandy, which produced a 9ft storm surge at Battery Park in New York City, produced one example of the dangerous combination of storm surges and rising sea level. In New York, each additional foot of water puts up to 100,000 additional people at risk, according to a map published with the study.
But tens of millions of people are potentially at risk across the country. The same report noted that more than half of the population, in some 285 US cities and towns, lived less than 1m above the high tide mark.
"In some places it takes only a few inches of sea-level rise to convert a once in a century storm to a once in a decade storm," said Ben Strauss, who directs the sea-level rise programme at Climate Central.
Large swathes of the mid-Atlantic coast, from Virginia through New Jersey, also faced elevated risk of severe flooding, because of climate change, he said. given that I facilitate flood-modelling training, I am more than aware of the concepts. But perhaps you need to be aware that 1M is ONE THOUSAND millimetres while the rises are a handful of millimetres. The concept of 'imminent risk' is nto defined as a <1% change in the set of circcumstances.
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