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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
THE CALIFORNIA COAST GREW AND PROSPERED during a remarkable moment in history when the sea was at its tamest. But the mighty Pacific, unbeknownst to all, was nearing its final years of a calm but unusual cycle that had lulled dreaming settlers into a false sense of endless summer.
Elsewhere, Miami has been drowning, Louisiana shrinking, North Carolina's beaches disappearing like a time lapse with no ending. While other regions grappled with destructive waves and rising seas, the West Coast for decades was spared by a rare confluence of favorable winds and cooler water. This "sea level rise suppression," as scientists call it, went largely undetected. Blinded from the consequences of a warming planet, Californians kept building right to the water's edge.
But lines in the sand are meant to shift. In the last 100 years, the sea rose less than 9 inches in California. By the end of this century, the surge could be greater than 9 feet.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by bradley13 on Tuesday July 09 2019, @03:26PM (3 children)
Sea level rise. Sea level rise! Eleventy!!!
When one finally gets to the guts of the document, here's the relevant bit: "A wide range of evidence indicates that the Cascadia Subduction Zone periodically generates great earthquakes of magnitude 8 to over 9 that cause sudden shifts...these greate earthquakes are accompanied by shoreline subsidence on the order of three feet of more." The document then goes on to point out that these quakes have been occurring every 300 to 500 years for millenia, and the last one was over 300 years ago. So...
tl;dr: nothing to do with sea level rise, everything to do with California being an earthquake zone.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @05:32PM (1 child)
where's the heresy mod?
(Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Tuesday July 09 2019, @10:09PM
Right next to the "The Emperor Protects!" button?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:57PM
So the earthquakes that cause sudden downward shifts in the coastal regions haven't happened for 300 years.
Therefore the change that's happened in the last 100 years is because of them?
Wait, waaaaat?
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