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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @11:27AM (10 children)
Sea levels appear have risen about 120 meters since the last glacial max in a series of pulses and plateaus.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png/1067px-Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png [wikimedia.org]
That's about 5,000 in for an average of ~25 in per century. So current rates of rise have been about 1/3rd the average rate. The predicted 108 in rise in a century would be about 4x higher than the average. Neither is unprecedented since the lgm.
(Score: 3, Informative) by PiMuNu on Tuesday July 09 2019, @01:02PM (8 children)
5,000 years ago, the entire area between the UK and Europe was home to a prosperous neolithic civilisation. Sea level rise has since flooded the entire area.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @03:11PM (4 children)
Nothing to worry about then.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @03:16PM (3 children)
When Trump[ waves his right arm in the air, the Trumptard becomes hysterical .
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday July 09 2019, @07:48PM (2 children)
What happens when Trump masturbates?
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @09:36PM
Russia turns on the video cameras.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @09:45PM
Everytime trump masturbates a fact someone doesn't like gets marked troll.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @05:27PM (2 children)
and what was the name of this civ? i'm interested in these things.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @05:46PM (1 child)
Dogeland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday July 10 2019, @06:19AM
You got the link for Dogeland wrong, it's here [reddit.com].
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 10 2019, @12:24AM
careful [xkcd.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0