Scientists identify 99 coastal cities
worldwide - home to at least 200 million
people - that are SINKING ... is YOUR
home at risk?
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Stacy Liberatore
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
11/4/2023 4:22:03 PM
At least 200 million people worldwide could be forced out of their coastal city homes after scientists revealed they are sinking by up to five centimeters per year.
Researchers at the University of Rhode Island analyzed 99 places, finding that most are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, but 34 locations are dropping by more than one centimeter per year.
The team uncovered four sinking 'hot spot' cities in Bangladesh, China, the Philippines and Pakistan, with yearly subsidence rates of up to five centimeters.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
peebster 11/4/2023 4:30:02 PM (No. 1591894)
…and before you know it, the elites will kick the long standing residents out via legislation for “the good of the planet”. But eventually, they’ll own it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 11/4/2023 4:33:22 PM (No. 1591896)
I love a good laugh at the end of the day.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Califedup 11/4/2023 4:35:12 PM (No. 1591897)
Does mean that our First Communist Dictator Barry Obama and our First Transvestite Lady, the Beefy, Towering, Ex Offensive Tackle for the Chicago Bears, Michael/Michelle Obama will be forced to move out of their multi-million dollar mansions, (still wondering where they got the money for these palaces, maybe their share of the Biden bribes?, located at Martha's (lily white) Vineyard and the one in Hawaii, both of which are located right at the shoreline of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans respectively?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MMC 11/4/2023 4:47:16 PM (No. 1591901)
Bezos just bought ocean front in Florida…
So, until I see the elite stop flying planes, yachting, living on ocean..
I may raise an eyebrow of concern..
Maybe
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 11/4/2023 4:51:19 PM (No. 1591905)
The 'Scientist's' are lying. Nothing is sinking and the sea's are not rising. There is a finite amount of water on earth. If water is moving inland, it is the result of natural erosion from the water lapping away at the land masses, which has been ongoing for millions of years. It is not from water melting at the poles. The Scientist's are fanatics and should be used as future Covid shot test subjects.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 11/4/2023 4:58:21 PM (No. 1591910)
I guess these were the few so-called scientists that didn't just come out and state there is no global warming.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
philsner 11/4/2023 5:14:52 PM (No. 1591924)
Oh they are not.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/4/2023 5:19:39 PM (No. 1591927)
FTA:
Parts of California were sinking fast some 60 years ago, but that subsidence was stopped through changes in groundwater management.
Well, that's a relief.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40 11/4/2023 5:25:36 PM (No. 1591933)
That’s why the Kenyan sunk $14 million in a mansion a few inches above sea level! They have already voted with their feet.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
thefield 11/4/2023 5:50:03 PM (No. 1591944)
They want population control.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Birddog 11/4/2023 5:54:58 PM (No. 1591947)
The very worst places they mention are facing the "Catastrophic" subsidence/sea rise of 2 INCHES!
"Ha! Have you NO imagination, sense of enterprise. sense of History? Concept of Engineering?"-everyone/anyone who has ever HEARD of the Netherlands.
The biggest/busiest airport in the Netherlands in located where one of the regions biggest historic sea battles took place..where sailing ships once floated(and sank), jumbo jets now take off
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Birddog 11/4/2023 5:56:17 PM (No. 1591948)
"Yeah...what HE said"-Galveston Texas
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
snakeoil 11/4/2023 6:24:24 PM (No. 1591962)
If the beach where Quid Pro Joe sunbathes his hoary hide is sinking I'll drive a load of anvils to Delaware.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 11/4/2023 7:15:05 PM (No. 1591976)
Article cites Istanbul as the capital of Turkey. Wrong. It's Ankara. The author must have gone to school in Oregon.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 11/4/2023 7:20:43 PM (No. 1591978)
Congressman Hank Johnson better get on this! It seems his fear of the effect of all those people on Guam causing it to capsize was not so crazy after all. Sinking land, rising seas, moving continents, earthquakes... how are we supposed to control all of it to create the proclaimed safe planet that every loon with an oxygen supply thinks we are entitled to?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Venturer 11/4/2023 7:58:03 PM (No. 1591994)
How many people believe their city will sink a foot in the next ten years.
New york city is built on bedrock. Bedrock is sinking?
BS.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 11/4/2023 8:49:10 PM (No. 1592022)
Give those scientists a trillion dollars and they might be able to slow the sinking. Then they will ask for another trillion. What will we get in return? Words! NOTHING! This is how some people get rich while countries and everyone else go lose everything.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
BarryNo 11/4/2023 9:29:49 PM (No. 1592037)
And not one is sinking due to climate change. They are sinking from subsidence, erosion, and similar reasons. If it was Climate Change ALL coastal areas would be affected.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
padiva 11/4/2023 10:58:09 PM (No. 1592084)
I plan to be buried in the big cemetery by the Mystic River in Mystic CT. Should I have oars tied to the top of my casket?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 11/5/2023 1:21:45 AM (No. 1592123)
Yep, any century now, or six....they'll be underwater, just like most coastal cities of antiquity.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mifla 11/5/2023 5:23:54 AM (No. 1592170)
I notice the rich liberals keep buying beach front property.
If they don't believe their own BS, why should the rest of us?
3 people like this.
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