NOAA Says Sea Rise Doom For Coast Coming By 2050 Or Something

Who gets fired when this doesn’t happen? Oh, right, they don’t expect anyone to remember their prognostication of doom, this is all meant to be scaremongering now

Map Shows US Cities That Could Be Underwater in 2050 https://t.co/CKtaMkoD9h

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) December 9, 2024

From the link

A map shows the growing threat to coastal cities across the United States due to rising sea levels.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s latest projections, sea levels along the U.S. coastlines are projected to rise, on average, around 10 to 12 inches by 2050.

Many communities along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts face significant risks of partial inundation in the future if current trends continue and mitigation efforts are not intensified.

NOAA’s Sea Level Rise Viewer shows which cities may be impacted along each coast, with dark blue areas indicating significant projected sea level rises.

You can play with that sea level rise viewer if you want, but, consider the 10-12 inches of sea rise thing: sea rise during the 20th Century was exactly average, meaning 6-8 inches, when it should have been much higher for a Holocene warm period. And it has not accelerated for the 21st Century. Look at, say, Atlantic City, NJ: NOAA’s own actual data, not computer models, shows 1.38 feet per 100 years, which is what is expected during a Holocene warm period, and this is a gauge that goes back to 1911. There’s also land subsiding going on.

While it is highly unlikely that cities will go underwater in the near future, according to a NOAA oceanographer specialist, any rise that is two feet or more above the average high tide has the potential to be extremely disruptive and/or outright damaging.

Dr. William Sweet, an NOAA oceanographer spearheading efforts to track and predict changes in sea level and coastal flood risk, told Newsweek that while he did not believe any communities in the U.S. would be going underwater by 2050, though “episodic flooding could become extremely damaging and a major concern unless we do something.”

And there it is, the bet hedging. Anyhow, sea rise should be expected during a warm period, especially during an inter-glacial period, no need to bring in witchcraft, er, human caused reasons.

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