Don't mess with the sea levels bro

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[–]Canbot 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

There was a documentary about an island nation that was planning on moving all thier inhabitants to the US because of global warming. The claim was that the entire island would be under water in 10 years. I wish I could find that now. I wish I had the foresight to save it.

Though I suspect the sheep would be completely unmoved by any evidence that they have been fooled.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Imagine living on a planet which has had at least 5 major ice ages in its time, imagine living during one of those ice ages and being surprised when temperatures go up.

We are likely to see many beautiful destinations vanish in our lifetime but it should come as no surprise. Settling near the coast at the end of a glacial period may as well be like settling at the foot of an active volcano.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Huge swaths of the world in Canada and Siberia are too cold to inhabit or farm. The amount of land lost to rising sea levels would be nothing compared to the land that gets opened up to habitation and agriculture.

[–]tiny-brown-mug 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

I remember when they were predicting, back in the early 90's, that Manhattan would be under water by now. We waited and waited for the polar ice caps (plural) to melt because of the hole in the ozone layer. We've been tricked before. The power that the media has to manipulate, fool, scare, and think for people is incredible.

[–]chickenz 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Video south Florida rising sea levels

https://youtu.be/-JbzypWJk64

[–]tiny-brown-mug 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

OK, so, storm surge is not the same as uniformly rising sea levels. What we're seeing is advanced erosion thanks to especially powerful storms, as well as storm surge in cases like Hurricane Sandy, and other events. What we are not seeing is the kind of dramatic and universal changes in global ocean levels that they told us would be here by now. I grew up with pictures of Manhattan being half-submerged. We were told entire island nations and archipelagos would have vanished by now.

What we are seeing is incredibly intense weather, but not the kind of changes that were predicted 30, 40 years ago. Cape Cod is still here, and so is Venice, Italy, and the Florida Keys.

[–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think Chick knows the difference between a storm plus lunar cycle, and the rise of the sea level.
Probably he does not live near the sea like the politicians who moved there after they after they scared everyone about rising sea levels.

[–]chickenz 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

When I used to work as a computer programmer, my time estimates regarding how long it would take me to complete a project was always short of what it would actually take.

For example, back around 2000 year, I had a client that wanted his own email web service, similar to Hotmail, and I somehow thought that I could code the entire backend in three weeks... But three weeks arrived and I was maybe 40% finished.. my client was upset, and it took me two solid months of twelve hour days to deliver that code.

Anyways, south Florida is now feeling the squeeze of rising sea levels and some residents have already been pushed out of their homes.

Video: planning for rising sea levels, south Florida.

https://youtu.be/RkAwIQaLnYQ

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

When I used to work as a computer programmer, my time estimates regarding how long it would take me to complete a project was always short of what it would actually take.

But three weeks arrived and I was maybe 40% finished..

I definitely have this problem... and I never seem to learn my lesson or get better at estimating how long something is gonna take 😞

[–]chickenz 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Looking back, I wish that I had taken up a career as a plumber or perhaps as an air conditioner repairman.

Some people have the programming skill AND the business acumen to operate a successful programming business, but I do not possess all of those attributes.

I would always underestimate the time duration that would be required to complete or the most foolish mistake I frequently made was to allow them to say that they were going to pay me $X for Y weeks, and if it took me more time I had to bite the bullet.

One time, it took me five months full time coding to earn $3k.. no worries, I finished it.. piece of cake.. but again, I sincerely wish that I had pursued a career as a plumber or ac repair or other marketable trade.

These MF clients, they saw me coming, they took advantage of me and cheated me on almost every programming job I took on.. I much more enjoy writing code for myself because of this.

My latest fascination is large supercapacitors and electric forklift motors.

Video: electric forklift motor

https://youtu.be/hIshNVQ9M2s

[–]Musky 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

You ever read The Mythical Man-Month?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

No, I have not, but it sounds great from a quick search

[–]BISH 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It was the Maldives.

The isle of Bish.

[–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The heat-waves on Jupiter are there because you did not have a cold shower.
See heat waves on Jupiter

[–]chickenz 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Video: Kiribati, the sinking islands due to rising seas

https://youtu.be/9P7jXveokDY

[–]tiny-brown-mug 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Again, this is due to strong storms, erosion, flooding, and the changing sand-scape of the islands. The sea levels are not rising; the islands are being eroded away due to intense storms and tidal shifts.

Now, everything is lumped together as "climate change", and folks sometimes confuse this with "rising sea levels" and "global warming", though these are separate theoretical phenomenon. What we are seeing here is what we see on Cape Cod. Shifting sands, and sand bars, and even islands, disappearing into the ocean as storms blow through and the pathways taken by the tide shift accordingly. The sea level is not rising, though land is vanishing; however in other places, the same weather patterns can cause new land to form.