THE OCEAN FLOOR IS SINKING
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http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-sinking-ocean-rising-sea-levels-772862 THE OCEAN FLOOR IS SINKING UNDER THE WATER WEIGHT FROM MELTING GLACIERS, AND IT’S AS BAD AS IT SOUNDS BY DANA DOVEY ON 1/7/18 AT 8:00 AM TECH & SCIENCE CLIMATE CHANGE THE OCEAN So much extra water is being added to the world’s oceans from melting glaciers that the ocean floor is sinking underneath the increasing weight. This ocean floor deformation also means we have miscalculated just how much ocean levels are rising, and the problem could be far worse than previously believed. Over the past 20 years, ocean basins have sunk an average of 0.004 inches per year. This means that the ocean is 0.08 inches deeper than it was two decades ago. While this small fragment of an inch may not seem much, oceans cover 70 percent of our planet, making the problem bigger than it seems at first glance. In a study published online in Geophysical Research Levels, researchers explain how they used a mathematical equation known as the elastic sea level equation to more accurately measure the ocean floor. This allowed them to see how much the bottom of the ocean floor has changed from 1993 to 2014. While they are not the first scientists to look at the ocean floor, this is the first time that researchers have taken into account how additional water from melted ice may have further stretched that floor, LiveScience reported. The results show that the ocean is changing in ways we didn't realize and is sinking further into the earth’s crust. As a result, scientists have underestimated how much sea levels are rising by as much as 8 percent. The study concludes by emphasizing that future sea level measurement should take ocean floor deformation into account in order to more accurately understand how our oceans are evolving. All the water on the planet today is all the water that has ever existed on the planet, but not all water is in its liquid form. Recently, rising temperatures have caused much of the frozen water on the planet’s glaciers to melt and join the ocean as liquid. This mass melting of ice has raised sea levels, a problem whose consequences we’re already starting to see. The first people to notice the repercussions of rising sea levels are those who live in coastal areas. Rising waters mean less land to live on. In addition, more water in the ocean means that ocean storms, such as hurricanes, have the potential to be stronger and more devastating, National Geographic reported. Small coastal areas won’t be the only ones to disappear due to rising waters, and if current estimates are correct, by 2100 the ocean will rise between 11 and 38 inches, a number that could mean that much of the U.S. east coast will be covered in water, National Geographic reported.
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Re: THE OCEAN FLOOR IS SINKING
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Good grief, the insanity will never end. I wish they had a cure for libtard.
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Re: THE OCEAN FLOOR IS SINKING
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It is hysterical. I keep waiting for them to start popping like corn or start jumping off cliffs into the ocean like lemmings.
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Re: THE OCEAN FLOOR IS SINKING
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Does their measurements take in to consideration the rise in ocean ridges. Or the normal rise of terrestrial mountain ranges from the slide of the crust ect ect ect
Not likley, they just need to find something that the useful idiots will eat up
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Re: THE OCEAN FLOOR IS SINKING
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.004" is roughly equivalent to the thickness of a standard sheet of notebook paper...
A human hair is approximately half that thickness at around .002"
I'm having a hard time believing that they're able to accurately measure measure that small a change. Especially over millions of square miles that is constantly sloshing and getting pulled back and forth across the planet by the moon.
Anyway...
Heracleion was inundated long before man-made climate change was a thing. So apparently oceans tend to rise from time to time.
Mike
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Re: THE OCEAN FLOOR IS SINKING
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Could it be the measurement taken in 1993, while no doubt using the most analytical equipment then, may not have been as accurate as the equipment used in 2014, and the difference is only precision?
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For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, they say. If you collapse part of our earthly sphere, the core has to give. Would not there be a very large uptick in volcanos if 70 plus percent of the sphere were collapsing in on itself?
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Something has to replace the voids left from pumping oil and gas from the earth???
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