Nonsense: A Crisis Right Now: San Francisco and Manila Face Rising Seas

What do you do when the sea comes for your home, your school, your church?
You could try to hold back the water. Or you could raise your house. Or you could just leave.
An estimated 600 million people live directly on the world’s coastlines, among the most hazardous places to be in the era of climate change. According to scientific projections, the oceans stand to rise by one to four feet by the end of the century, with projections of more ferocious storms and higher tides that could upend the lives of entire communities.
Many people face the risks right now. Two sprawling metropolitan areas offer a glimpse of the future. One rich, one poor, they sit on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean: the San Francisco Bay Area (population 7 million) and metropolitan Manila (almost 14 million).
Their history, their wealth, and the political and personal choices they make today will shape how they fare as the water inevitably comes to their doorsteps.

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Sea levels in SanFrancisco are measured precisely by NOAA, and the results are available to the public https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=9414290 The measured levels are in blue. They rose at EXACTLY THE SAME RATE in the 1860's as they do now. So all the 1000 fold increase in emissions had no effect whatsoever on the rate of rise, SAME 0.8ft/century now as then. If the whole world would go North Korea, cold, hungry, foraging for roots, so as to reduce emissions to the 1860's levels, sea levels in SFO would rise like in 1860 at the SAME 0.8 ft/century as they do now. See the NOAA data. Of course in computer models seas would rise by tens if not hundreds of feet, starting soon. Why soon? Because it's always starting soon. A century from now, it will be starting soon. There were lots of huge glaciers doing tremendous things, all with great pictures in the NYT. Yet sea levels show no effect of that at all. None. Same 0.8ft/century. Look at the NOAA graph.

Nonsense: A Crisis Right Now: San Francisco and Manila Face Rising Seas

Nonsense: A Crisis Right Now: San Francisco and Manila Face Rising Seas

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