Al Gore: Undercover Investigator

You just knew he would be heard from after the mild winter the mid atlantic had this past winter. 100 bucks he owns stock in oil, and I only used 400 gallons this past winter...


The sea level on a stretch of the US Atlantic coast that features the cities of New York, Norfolk and Boston is rising up to four times faster than the global average, a report said Sunday.

This increases the flood risk for one of the world's most densely-populated coastal areas and threatens wetland habitats, said a study reported in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Since about 1990, the sea level along the 1,000-kilometre (620-mile) "hotspot" zone has risen by two to 3.7 millimetres (0.08 to 0.15 inches) per year.

The global rise over the same period was between 0.6 and one millimetre per year, said the study by the US Geological Survey (USGS).

If global temperatures continue to rise, the sea level on this portion of the coast by 2100 could rise up to 30 centimetres over and above the one-metre global surge projected by scientists, it added.

The localised acceleration is thought to be caused by a disruption of Atlantic current circulation.

"As fresh water from the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet enters the ocean, it disrupts this circulation, causing the currents to slow down," USGS research oceanographer and study co-author Kara Doran explained.

"When the Gulf Stream current weakens, sea levels rise along the coast and the greatest amount of rise happens north of where the Gulf Stream leaves the coast (near Cape Hatteras)."

The hotspot stretches from Cape Hatteras, Northern Carolina to north of Boston, Massachusetts and also includes other big cities like Philadelphia and Baltimore.

http://news.yahoo.com/rising-sea-level-puts-us-atlantic-coast-risk-171554622.html

IMHO eventually it will happen..a few hundred years or a thousand. It's mother nature's way of cleansing things. Remember the glaciers? Nah, you weren't here yet. Best we can do is realize, soon enough, that it might make sense to relocate to higher ground. Boston can sink for all I care.

Other than the Hoover Dam, of course, it seems water always wins in the long run. I'm with Blue... mother nature at work. We could stop using any and all things that contribute to the global warming issue, and the wheels of motion wouldn't stop turning.

Magic's perch atop Mount Zion may be safe... the rest of us better better start looking for higher ground away from the coasts.

Maybe between the rising waterlevels and Crav's newest heartthrob Debby, I can get a little moisture up here... drought conditions during our 2-3rd wettest month... pretty soon they're going to tell me to stop watering my lawn...

This Debby is a pain in my ass, aint I hear she aint moving til Thursday...Im kinda glad though caus Drew is The Outer Banks