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by chrisco255 6y ago
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=8724580 https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station....
Sea level rise is not a big problem at all. Above is the tide gauge for Key West (very close to Miami), and it shows a 0.3m or about a 1 foot rise since 1910. That is consistent with millenia long trends, as sea levels have been rising since the beginning of the Holocene ~12K years ago.
The parts of Miami Beach (the island near Miami), are caused by the fact that parts of the island are sinking.
Houston was built at the meeting point of two bayous in the early 1800s and flooded shortly after it's founding. It has experience frequent floods since then. Here's photos of them: https://www.dtn.com/houstons-history-of-floods/ https://www.dtn.com/houstons-history-of-floods/
We don't have records on Houston going back 500 years so I don't know where you got the 500 year figure from. Needless to say, the above is proof that floods are very common in former bayous.
- hansthehorse 6y agoKey West is 130 crow fly miles from Miami. 160 by car.
- chrisco255 6y agoYes, and sea level is driven by changes thousands of miles further, including ice volume at the polar caps, undersea currents, lunar gravitational pull, etc. 130 miles, when we're talking about sea level, is nothing. And these trends are true across the globe. Sea level has only been rising at the rate of 1 foot per century. And that rate has been pretty steady for thousands of years (it didn't start at the beginning of the industrial era).
- titzer 6y ago> And that rate has been pretty steady for thousands of years Sorry, no, it hasn't. Sea level has been within 10cm of 1900's levels for at least a thousand years. https://www.sealevels.org/ https://www.sealevels.org/ https://skepticalscience.com//Past-150000-Years-of-Sea-Level-History-Suggests-High-Rates-of-Future-Sea-Level-Rise.html https://skepticalscience.com//Past-150000-Years-of-Sea-Level...