On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:48:38 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:31:03 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

I want evidence the sea level is rising.

I haven't run aground recently so it must be rising.

That might be the nav gear, or caution that grows with age -
a fine wine type of thing.
When I was in Punta Gorda a while ago, I could eye the canal
waterline and pretty well time the tides. If I lived there, I would
soon ken to the variations caused by moon phases.
It seems I would certainly know if the sea was rising even an inch on
the canal wall over a period of time.
It seems hardly a month goes by without the news showing a Rhode
Island chunk of ice cap breaking off to melt. Glaciers disappearing,
etc. I always thought global warming would cause a rise in sea
levels.
I haven't heard that it's happening, and don't want to be confused by
conflicting political internet cites, so I figured I'd go to the guys
living next to the actual ocean, with nice concrete walls showing
waterlines.

--Vic

wrote in :

http://www.courant.com/news/local/sr...,1550076.story

But, alas, is it the sea rising or Guilford sinking in the muck it's built
upon? As coastal areas urbanize, they have a long, long history of SINKING
into the soft sands of the beach. Plate Tectonics is also in play.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=re...rl=http%3A%2F%
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or the tinyurl of this mess:
http://tinyurl.com/2j6mp3

There are a LOT of riffs in the geology of this whole region....it's FAR
from static...

Larry
--
QUOTE OF THE MONTH:
"I have been to several major Chinese cities and have seen first hand shops
crammed with obviously fake American products." - Jon Dudas, Undersecretary
of Commerce for Intellectual Property Rights.

How can they be fake? The Chinese make all "American Products" I use!

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:38:37 GMT, wrote:



Found it:

http://www.courant.com/news/local/sr...,1550076.story

Interesting article. Thanks. Hadn't thought about the effect of
thermal expansion. Wonder why you don't hear this type of story
from Florida, which would seem more susceptible to flooding, and has
much more shoreline. I suppose it could be tides and coastline
topography. I take back saying I might be able to see it happening
on seawall watermarks. I don't have *that* much patience.

--Vic

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:22:28 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Wonder why you don't hear this type of story
from Florida, which would seem more susceptible to flooding, and has
much more shoreline.

You don't hear about it because it is not happening to any significant
extent. Guilford is no doubt a special case of subsiding land. There
are other areas where this is happening and it has nothing to do with
global warming/cooling. There are parts of coastal Louisiana
subsiding because of oil field depletion.