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You don’t have it up on your wall?
From last night?
You don’t have it up on your wall?
Which Islands?
The Republic of Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, consists of 1,190 islands. With no ground surface higher than 9.9 feet (3 meters), and 80 percent of the land area lying below 3.3 feet (1 meter) above average sea level, the Maldives is the flattest country on Earth. The lack of topography in the Maldives makes it one of the nations most vulnerable to rising sea level and coastal flooding.
Housing and critical infrastructure in the Maldives, including five airports and 128 harbors, are concentrated along coastlines. Since the 1950s, sea level in and around the Maldives has been rising at a rate of 0.03–0.06 inches (0.8–1.6 millimeters) per year. Because of the Maldivian topography, small changes in sea level translate into extensive land inundation. More than 90 of the inhabited Maldives islands now experience annual flooding. A series of swells forced the evacuation of more than 1,600 people from their homes and damaged more than 500 housing units which have been relocated.
An average rise of 0.13 inch (3.3 millimeters) per year has been traced from 1993 to 2008 which points to the pace of sea level rise is accelerating. Migration is has become the main potential solution for Maldivians. In November 2008, the president of the Maldives announced the country would attempt to buy a new homeland and move the entire population.
You made a claim that islands have disappeared. Yet the Maldives is still there.
Definitely not good considering how much of the world is already water it is also scary.
Just as we breathe and get hungry, the Earth changes in rhythms and with trackable causes. Calculating geologically paced planetary changes based on momentary local data taken out of context does not seem reasonable.
It's not that there's more water, it's that melt water has an alkalinity of about 19 ppm. Seawater is 460 ppm. Thanks to the wonders of osmosis, that means the sea water alkalinity drops. When it does, you get things like the great barrier reef bleaching, and the Atlantic Conveyor slowing down. That's not good for anyone.
Most of the people who claim all is good and remain calm will not have the will or ability to understand what your statement means.
The drop in saline means nothing to them. A slower Atlantic Conveyor will have long term hazards that they have no concept or want to understand.
The delicate balance once lost may never be recovered and that historically leads to mass extinction. The deniers will not be convinced until they are personally threatened and then it will not be their fault but those who didn't do a good enough job in pointing it out....
Need a reason to be concerned about rising sea level? I've got eight. A recent study found that at least eight islands in the Pacific Ocean have disappeared due to rising sea levels.
Both Alaska and Canada have speeded up the relocation of villages and towns in low lying coastal areas due to the melting of ice sheets like the ones in Greenland. They had project a slower pace to move these towns, but a more rapid melting and resulting rise in sea levels has caused a quickened move.
Islands once inhabited in the Atlantic & Pacific have disappeared from view. Florida communities are dealing with salt water back flooding the storm sewers at high tide.
Link to the study please.
Link to the study please.
Five Pacific islands disappear as sea levels rise - BBC News
That's from 2016, BBC.
Three islands disappeared in the past year. Is climate change to blame?
That's from a few days ago, NBC.
Identifying and assessing evidence for recent shoreline change attributable to uncommonly rapid sea-level rise in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, Northwest Pacific Ocean | SpringerLink
The study itself.
Your more generous than I was willing to be.
I thought dragging his knuckles for awhile might get him to stand up straight....:monkeyarm
Meh. This is the depressing **** I have to look at all day, I like to share.
Meh. This is the depressing **** I have to look at all day, I like to share.
But wait - Jack says the ice isn't melting.:shock:
The Republic of Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, consists of 1,190 islands. With no ground surface higher than 9.9 feet (3 meters), and 80 percent of the land area lying below 3.3 feet (1 meter) above average sea level, the Maldives is the flattest country on Earth. The lack of topography in the Maldives makes it one of the nations most vulnerable to rising sea level and coastal flooding.
Housing and critical infrastructure in the Maldives, including five airports and 128 harbors, are concentrated along coastlines. Since the 1950s, sea level in and around the Maldives has been rising at a rate of 0.03–0.06 inches (0.8–1.6 millimeters) per year. Because of the Maldivian topography, small changes in sea level translate into extensive land inundation. More than 90 of the inhabited Maldives islands now experience annual flooding. A series of swells forced the evacuation of more than 1,600 people from their homes and damaged more than 500 housing units which have been relocated.
An average rise of 0.13 inch (3.3 millimeters) per year has been traced from 1993 to 2008 which points to the pace of sea level rise is accelerating. Migration is has become the main potential solution for Maldivians. In November 2008, the president of the Maldives announced the country would attempt to buy a new homeland and move the entire population.
Need a reason to be concerned about rising sea level? I've got eight. A recent study found that at least eight islands in the Pacific Ocean have disappeared due to rising sea levels.
A recent study documented the effect of sea level rise, which averages 3mm per year globally but up to 12mm per year in the western Pacific in the last decade. The team found that islands in Micronesia have disappeared in recent years with little to no evidence they existed at all. Several Solomon Islands had similar fates in recent decades as they were overtaken by the sea.
Through satellite images, surveys of the area, and speaking with displaced locals, the research team pieced together the history and fate of these submerged islands. Most of the islands have either reduced in size dramatically or disappeared. The islands of Kepidau en Pehleng, Nahlap, Laiap, Nahtik, and Ros have all been submerged in recent years.
People have had to continually relocate to larger islands as smaller ones disappear. One example is the current relocation of inhabitants on the Carteret Islands of Papua New Guinea to Bougainville Island. It has become too risky to maintain permanent residence on many of the smaller western Pacific islands
While many people reading this may not be directly impacted by sea level rise, it remains a daily concern for many people living in southeast Asia.
It's not that there's more water, it's that melt water has an alkalinity of about 19 ppm. Seawater is 460 ppm. Thanks to the wonders of osmosis, that means the sea water alkalinity drops. When it does, you get things like the great barrier reef bleaching, and the Atlantic Conveyor slowing down. That's not good for anyone.
Most of the people who claim all is good and remain calm will not have the will or ability to understand what your statement means.
The drop in saline means nothing to them. A slower Atlantic Conveyor will have long term hazards that they have no concept or want to understand.
The delicate balance once lost may never be recovered and that historically leads to mass extinction. The deniers will not be convinced until they are personally threatened and then it will not be their fault but those who didn't do a good enough job in pointing it out....
Well, the GOOD news is, given the worst possible end to the conveyor thing, humans have a demonstrated ability to survive an ice age. The BAD news is, civilization doesn't. So we have a few gigadeaths, lose our civilization, which implies losing records, and a few thousand years from now we do the same dumb crap all over again.
Thing is, we're already threatened. People in Nebraska could tell us a thing or two. Hell, it's been raining too much in Arizona for the last 2-3 years. We have also really slowed down on our capability to make repairs (Paradise, CA, comes to mind).
That's the thing about climate change. It's not an event, but a process...And you can measure the scope of the progress by the drop in standard of living from the bottom up.
I have given you enough information to look it up.
Do some research it is often good for the brain.
Your first link is about uninhabited islands. The second one is pure hyperbole and is short on facts. The third doesnt really say anything.Five Pacific islands disappear as sea levels rise - BBC News
That's from 2016, BBC.
Three islands disappeared in the past year. Is climate change to blame?
That's from a few days ago, NBC.
Identifying and assessing evidence for recent shoreline change attributable to uncommonly rapid sea-level rise in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, Northwest Pacific Ocean | SpringerLink
The study itself.