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The rate at which you post wildly inaccurate facts far exceeds my ability and patience for rebutting them. But this utter gem stands out above the rest: > The
by titzer 6y ago
The rate at which you post wildly inaccurate facts far exceeds my ability and patience for rebutting them. But this utter gem stands out above the rest:
> The only mild risk from mild warming is rising sea levels. That has been documented to be holding steady at 1 foot of sea level rise per century for the past few hundred years. Much smaller than the meltwater pulse at the Younger Dryas 12k years ago. Humans have continually delt[sic] with sea level rise since we invented agriculture.
That is just completely wrong. Global sea levels have been documented and reconstructed and cross-checked better than radio-carbon dating. There are still extant coastal cities that have existed for more than a thousand years, and they are all in agreement that this claim of 1 foot per century just cannot possibly true. I literally have no idea where you got this, I've never seen anyone even suggest this number. Even documented sea level rise since 1900 has been only 5 to 8 inches. Did sea level rise drastically slow down the last century? It's funny, that number, because since the 1990s the incredibly accurate modern gauges of sea level have noticed that the rate of rise has actually tripled to 3 millimeters a year and is still accelerating! That's funny, that's roughly a foot a century. So you just happen to suggest that the exact, current rate of sea level rise is the average over the "past couple centuries". Uh, no. If we were to project that 1000 years into the past, sea level would have been 10 ft lower! Corals and sediments don't lie. Sea level has been stable for 2000 years, just the perfect amount of time for modern civilization to up and build megacities on coasts the world over. Now, project that 3 millimeters per year into the future. In 1000 years, 10 feet! Goodbye all of Florida, Manhattan, and pretty much every major coastal city. But it won't be 1000 years. Things are picking up. We'll get multiple feet of sea level rise this century.
https://ocean.si.edu/through-time/ancient-seas/sea-level-rise https://ocean.si.edu/through-time/ancient-seas/sea-level-ris...