If you go to the "new" harbor of ancient Rome. Often called Trajan's Harbor, "Portus," you find that the water level is near exactly were it was in 103 AD. Ostia Antica is not. It got silted up over time and the docks are now a meter or so above the river and high and dry.
If someone wants to state something and doesn't include
Land Subsidence, land fall, in the argument then the augment is false and they have a different thing they want to talk about. The East coast of the US is sinking, but the coasts of North Eastern Europe are rising.
Usually a political thing that has nothing to do with climate change.
The world had headlines about the death of a glacier in Iceland. Blamed on global warming.
The demise of Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, will be memorialized with a plaque by researchers from Rice University in Houston.
www.cnn.com
Yet, later they found that there were tree stumps, under the prior glacier, that it was only 700 years old in the first place, and under an active volcano. Hummm. Its now a tourist attraction with a monument and everything, as the first glacier loss do to GW. And they run hundreds of eco-tourists over gravel roads for hundreds of miles, in vehicles that get less than 12 miles per gallon, so they can stand on it, and take pictures after their 6,000 mile round trip flight on a jet liner.
Then we have the First Mammal to go extinct thingy from Australia that made the rounds.
Five minutes of looking this up, tells you Bramble Cay was never a stable island, and a rather small island, and that the rats that lived, only numbering in the 100's were never established as a distinct species and had probably been killed off in typhoons that wasted over the island, and repopulated occasionally from Rafting Rats from the Fly River.
Australian Rodent Is First Mammal Made Extinct by Human-Driven Climate Change, Scientists Say (Published 2016)
en.wikipedia.org
Articles like this, just make me mad, because they are so ill researched. These invasive rats ate the eggs of endangered Green Sea Turtles. They were invasive, so good riddance. I don't think anyone in Austrailia wanted to do DNA tests cause if the rats were just the same as the Fry River rats, then that would change things up. They had many years do these sort of tests. Even to see if they could interbred with other rats, but they didn't for 20 years. And in my reading, seemed to have avoided establishing these rats as a unique species.
Everyone has a game, a self interest, in the Climate Change discussion.
But you would never know this from the NYT article. Or that the Australians had a comfy grant of $250,000 dollars to check on the rats once and awhile, while also deep sea fishing on their boats with attractive female, undergraduates.
Sorry, your party time is over. No more rats, no more 250,000 dollar grant to study them that you knew were invasive in the first place.
There are some concerns about climate change, but the media has to do a better investigative job then just spew out non-sense, or click bait.
Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay is sinking, slowly, but mainly it is eroding. All the barrier grasses died due to pollution and run off of over development on the main land. This is never part of the narrative used by the popular media. ITS MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING, RISING THE SEA LEVEL.
Which isn't the root cause. And even the citizens of Tangier will tell you this. But they are dismissed as stupid, inbred, and deeply religious people. Which having visited a few times, I can say they are not, and know The Bay better than anyone as they have to live off it.
Again, something has been turned in to a political redirection that is easier to digest, then unlimited mainland development. That's what we don't want to talk about.
