Climate changes online tools

[Lewis]

Climate changes visible by ZIP code with new online tools

http://www.usatoday....-tools/7739415/

With the click of a computer mouse, the potential risks of rising sea levels will soon be searchable — by ZIP code — for all U.S. coastal communities.

An online mapping tool will show how much sea levels are expected to rise in each area, as well as the number of residents and buildings that could be flooded. Initially launched in March 2012 for New York, New Jersey and Florida, it will expand to cover New England on Wednesday, the Pacific states later this spring and the rest of the coastal U.S. by the end of summer.

 

[Barbarian]

So far, almost all of the rather small rise in sea levels has been from thermal expansion, not melting ice. That could change, but except for a few really low areas, it shouldn't be a big issue for a decade or so, maybe a lot longer.

Melting sea ice won't do it; there will have to be major melting of continental glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica before you see the big effects.

 

[Rick W]

First thing you see is a flooded community by the storm Sandy. Then you see "surging seas" and "rising seas".
Then of course in the description of the tool we see "expected to rise" and "could be flooded".
It's alarmism all over again. Sea ice melting raises ocean levels as much as melting ice cubes floating in drink. It doesn't.
Barbarian is right on this one. The ice sitting on a landmass would have to melt and a LOT of it.

 

[reba]

Tax dollars spent to push a agenda ... the weather is what it is .. It will be what it is.... man may think he has the power to control Gods heavens but he is fooling himself....

This is not to say we should not take care of God's earth we should.. He said to...

 

[reba]

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