According to NASA imaging, some cities, including New York and Baltimore, are in danger of sinking. But don’t worry, there are solutions, which include seawalls and floodgates.
Though New York City is sinking, the sea around it is rising faster. A $1.45-billion system of walls and floodgates aims to protect the city from rising sea levels.
The one thing we know for certain is that giving money to Joe Biden or Klaus Schwab for climate change won’t help at all.
This isn’t news. We’ve known this would happen for decades, but it is happening faster than expected.
IT’S NOT THE SKYSCRAPERS
National Geographic reports that as water flows out, the land compacts, and the structures built on top fall closer to sea level. At least 33 cities are falling by more than one centimeter per year, five times the rate of sea-level rise, based on recent estimates of global sea-level rise.
Though parts of the city are built over artificial land (made by filling water with sediment), most of the Big Apple’s heaviest skyscrapers are built on sturdy bedrock; the city’s slow shoreward slump has far more to do with geology than hefty construction. Sinking aside, the sea is actually rising faster in New York City than the land is falling, says Tom Parsons of the United States Geological Survey, who led a new study.
CBS News reports that A NASA-funded team of scientists at Virginia Tech’s Earth Observation and Innovation Lab found the geographical problem is “happening rapidly enough to threaten infrastructure, farmland, and wetlands that tens of millions of people along the coast rely upon,” NASA said.
Scientists looked at satellite data and GPS sensors to monitor the motion of the coast and found that infrastructure in major cities like New York, Baltimore and Norfolk, Virginia, is built on land that sank between the years of 2007 and 2020. The land subsided, or sank, by an average of 1 to 2 millimeters a year, but some counties in Delaware, Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia saw their land sink twice or three times that fast.
The land in marshes sinks by more than 3 millimeters a year, the scientists found. Forests have also been displaced due to the intrusion of saltwater and the subsiding land.
And wildlife is not the only thing being affected. Along the coast, at least 897,000 structures — including highways and airports — sit on land that is subsiding.
According to the New York Times, parts of New York City and Long Island are sinking over 3 centimeters per decade. Atlantic City is sinking up to 4 centimeters per decade. Nearby groundwater pumping has caused soils to compact. Several hotspots in Maryland are sinking over 10 centimeters per decade, while other areas are rising.
This is where money should go as opposed to pie-in-the-sky ideological agendas.
Sea levels are not rising.
Bullsh*t!
Wait, is the actual land sinking, as it seems to be saying? So what does that have to do with global warming/climate change? Can’t have it both ways … pick an argument.
most of it is down to deflection of the continental shelf from the billions of tons of dirt coming down the rivers. We had articles on that over a decade ago.
Another in the unending manufactured crisis’ from the Obiden regime. What’s worse is they’re going to “fix it”.
cool….my ocean front condo in oc md is safe for more than my lifetime
You say that East Coast cities are sinking like it is a BAD thing. Especially Baltimore and north, it is some of the best geological news since the SF earthquake.
Impossible. They’ve been underwater since 2010 according to Algore.
No problem. Climate scientist Al Gore has a plan to use large oil tankers to transport water from the Atlantic to Antarctica, where it will freeze and become a sanctuary for homeless penguins. It’s a win-win.
Sea levels rise and fall daily. Tides, waves, storms . .
If there was ever a city that needed a good Douche,… IT’S NEW YORK!!!
And an enema.
Most of it is probably due to subsidence from pumping groundwater. I live in SE Texas and all of the water districts were forced to use surface water as opposed to ground water, due to subsidence, at which point our water bills went up about 1,000%.
What needs to be looked at is the actual sea level, as opposed to the amount of subsidence occurring. I would bet the subsidence is occurring more rapidly than the sea level is rising.
Once again, fraudulent concerns over CO2 and “global warming”.
Popeye blows a goat.
If only this was true . .
Subsidence is not rising sea levels and water seeks its own levels. Just look at the sea level dry docks around the world. Some are over 100 years old, still working and have not been overtopped by the silly claims of the enviro-pagans.
I care not.
I’d say hurry up and sink.
Since Obama, I quit trusting any federal government agency and many of my state agencies. This is for good reason as they have lied to us, coerced our participation in their schemes or prosecuted us when we refused, mismanaged our taxes and so they destroyed our trust. And now they want us to believe NYC and other leftist controlled cities are sinking. And you know what follows; Federal tax money will be tapped to build their dikes. NO!
Stop Continental Drift!!,
This news will alarm the climate alarmists. The shy is falling.
A hoax is a hoax of course of course unless of course the hoax is the global warming hoax.
CBS, National Geographic and NASA are entirely unreliable sources.
Knock off the rising sea nonsense. That’s a crazy as global warming. Wise up, world!
New York will go under from bad management long before it goes under water
1 centimeter? You don’t have to worry about that in your lifetime.
In the big city down the road, there is a bridge across a waterway. One of the main towers is free floating on one side. They never found bedrock. Even though they drove piles many feet down. All earth. So the engineers gambled and just let the supporting piles float freely. So far it has not been a problem so the engineers may have been correct. So far so good.
Is it on the New Jersey side?
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