Seas rising faster than any time in 2,800 years

Sci/Tech News (ap.org, 2-22-16); Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

The Buddha reclining into nirvana, awash in Thailand flooding (framework.latimes.com)

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The heat goes on...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sea levels on Earth are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating because of man-made global warming [i.e., climate chaos brought on by human pollution and geo-engineering], according to new studies.

There are worse "floods" than sea-level rise, bu destroying a planet is no small thing.

Warming oceans are dying and rising, as storms erode beaches (telegraph.co.uk).

 

Manipulating coral genes?

An international team of scientists dug into two dozen locations across the globe to chart gently rising and falling seas over centuries and millennia. Until the 1880s and the [European] world's industrialization, the fastest seas rose was about 1 to 1.5 inches (3 to 4 centimeters) a century, plus or minus a bit. During that time global sea level really didn't get much higher or lower than 3 inches above or below the 2,000-year average.

  

But in the 20th century the world's seas rose 5.5 inches (14 cm). Since 1993 the rate has soared to a foot per century (30 cm).

Destroyed homes left in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Ortley Beach, N.J. Sea levels on Earth are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating because of man-made global warming, according to new studies.

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Forest fires and warming

And two different studies published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said by 2100 that the world's oceans will rise between 11 to 52 inches (28 to 131 cm), depending on how much heat-trapping gas [most notably the meat-producing industry that clear cut forests for grazing by methane-producing animals that are then slaughtered in ways that produce further erosion of the environment, the oil industry and fracking companies that degrade the environment on an industrial scale, and coal companies that remove mountain tops and leave behind open pits that erode away and spread deadly toxins] Earth's industries and vehicles expel. More

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