Uh-huh… total 8″ in 200 years or 4″/Century. Run! Save yourselves!
Sea levels in the southwest Pacific started rising drastically in the 1880s, with a notable peak in the 1990s thought to be linked to human-induced climate change, according to a new study.
The research, which examined sediment core samples taken from salt marshes in southern Australia’s Tasmania island, used geochemistry to establish a chronology of sea level changes over the past 200 years.
Patrick Moss, from the University of Queensland, said major environmental events which impacted the ocean such as the introduction of unleaded petrol and nuclear tests, showed up in the samples and were used for dating.
The chronology revealed a major jump in sea levels around 1880 after 6,000 years of relative stability, Moss said, with peaks in the 1910s and 1990s — the latter of which appeared to be linked to human activity.
“Overall, over the past 200 years or so, sea levels have increased by about 20 centimetres (eight inches),” Moss told AFP on Thursday.
200 years ago nobody gave a hang about the sea level unless they were outrunning a tsunami. Nor did they have the technology to measure it (if we even do today to the degree of accuracy we claim). This is based on a SWAG measurement of sediments which may or may not tell us anything.
I have determined what the greatest problem
facing Man is today:
Wait for it . . .
STUDIES !!!
We could use a study to determine if studies
cause more damage than not having studies
at all. We pay fortunes for studies which may
actually be harming us.
This is why the Colleges are offering courses in “Studies, Studies”.
In the Solent there are remains of human habitations 8000 years old that are under as much as 11 meters of water. The sea level rise there is therefore about 13.75 cm (about 5-1/2 inches) per century – and has been going on for a LONG time.
Similar observations have been made at other archaeological sites around europe.
http://heritage-key.com/blogs/sean-williams/top-10-underwater-archaeology-sites-around-world
Not conclusive by itself, as subsidence of the
land could be involved.
Forget sea-level rise. What about land-level rise. There are Roman ruuins adjacent to the solent, near Chichester that are, prepare yourself UNDER GROUND! The rate of land-level rise is about 3 foot per millenia; greater in other places.
Also, that says nothing about the rate. Recovering from an ice age causes rapid rise of sea levels, followed by significant slowdown as the amount of ice to melt drops.
We know that there is a layer of about 600 feet of salt water on top of fresh water in the Black Sea. It also appears that there are settlements along the boundary between the fresh and salt waters. This probably was the result of rising sea level overflowing at the Strait of Bosphorus.
Where is Atlantis? Could it be along a long forgotten beach on a fresh water lake just inside of the Strait of Gibralter?
Sea level has indeed been rising for a long time.
I have subscribed to the Black Sea home of
Atlantis theory for many years. Though I see it
as having been on an island out away from the
current shore. Though Ballard did some work
in the Black Sea, archeologists have neglected
it for study. As they have the North American
coast 300 feet down!
The flooding thru the Bosporus was around
10,000 years ago. It could be the origin of
many Great Flood “myths.” In quotes, as the
myths may have been real. The stories would
have been handed down for 5 millenia before
recorded history.
I’d be willing to subscribe to an archealogical expedition to explore this tantalizing issue. It can be done as “Science by internet” in so far as any group undertaking this could fund themselves with donations over the internet and they be kept abreast of the action. I’d kick in 10 bucks, and if another 100,000 did so, we got money to go!
The old port of Ephesus is now 5m above sea level and Roman Alexandria is 5m below sea level.
So, on climate sciency logic the ports haven’t changed, its the sea that’s tilted. You can now sail downhill from Egypt to Turkey.
I thought the reason for tenure was so university professors could retire early and not have to do research which resulted in conclusions that scared the hell out of people and required more taxpayer funded research to confirm their conclusions.
Did this study do any research on whether or not the land moved up or down during this time period? Plate tectonics has fooled many of these fools. In addition the contenental shelves have been bent downwards by the thousands of years of silt from river outflows, once again giviing a false reading of “rise” when in fact there may have actually been a fall.
This sounds like more data hunting to ‘prove’ a foregone conclusion.
Also consider that the Little Ice Age ended about 1850 or so and that we’ve had some accelerated melting of that ice build up to date so rising sea levels since 1880 or so is to be expected. duh.