Your Fault: Cities Are Sinking, Which Is Worse Than Sea Rise

Sea rise is pretty much average for the Holcene, 7 inches during the 20th Century, when it should be at least double that for a warm period. Since this is not cooperating with the scaremongering, the cult is no Blamestorming you for sinking cities

Why sinking cities may now be a bigger climate crisis than rising seas

For decades, the story of coastal risk has been dominated by climate change and rising seas. But a major new global study suggests that, for hundreds of millions of people living on river deltas – including those living in cities such as New Orleans and Bangkok – an even more immediate threat is unfolding beneath their feet.

Across much of the world, the land itself is sinking – and in many places, it’s sinking faster than the ocean is rising.

Using satellite radar to track tiny changes in the Earth’s surface, scientists have discovered that more than half of the world’s river-delta regions – the low-lying land where major rivers meet the sea – are now sinking. In many of the most densely populated deltas on the planet, this gradual subsidence, rather than rising seas alone, is now the dominant driver of flood risk. (snip)

Deltas are built from loose, water-logged sediments deposited over thousands of years. Even without human interference, these sediments slowly compact under their own weight, causing gradual sinking.

Historically, that natural sinking was balanced by regular floods that replenished the land with fresh sediment. But modern development has changed that balance.

That’s not ‘climate change’, but, it is a result of mankind’s actions.

The study examined three major human-linked drivers of land sinking: groundwater extraction, reduced sediment supply and urban expansion. Of these, groundwater pumping stood out as the strongest overall predictor.

Yup. And the article continues on and on in this vein, till we get to the end

The study’s authors argue that subsidence has been dangerously under-represented in global climate-risk planning, partly because it is viewed as a local problem rather than a planetary one.

But local does not mean small. Even under worst-case climate scenarios, sinking land will remain the dominant driver of relative sea-level rise in many deltas for decades.

None of this has anything to do with climate change, natural, man-caused, or a mixture. It’s like they’re required to add it in.