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Climate Ready: New York City's Evidence Shows Rapid Glacier Melting Causes Real-Time Effects
Dani Beckstrom WABC
Friday, March 28, 2025New York City (WABC) – Not only in the movies; the ice on our planet melts faster than we think.
This melting occurs not only in the Arctic and Antarctic.
“From the relatively small glaciers we use to look at in the shapes, the Alps, the Rockies, the glaciers in Alaska, the Alps, the Rockies, the relatively small glaciers in Alaska,” said Robin Bell, a geophysicist and glacierologist.
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“There is a tidal gauge at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal,” Bell said. “Sea levels are rising all the time.”
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New York City has a further history with the glaciers.
“About 20,000 years ago, the entire area was on ice,” said a research assistant at the American Museum of Natural History. “It could be about 1,000 to 2,000 feet here.”
In parts of New York State, more than a mile and a half of ice covers the current ground, which is more than four times the height of a World Trade Center.
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No-eye news ABC 7
The article goes on to describe all the breathtaking evidence of catastrophic glacier melting in and around New York City: glacial differences, glacial stripes, more glacial instability… Strangely enough, they failed to mention that Long Island is basically an ultimate Moraine. They even include a cute video with the Ice Age comics.
The evidence of “rapid glacier melting” in modern New York City “caused real-world effects” about as many as the presence of marine fossils in the Ordovician period, which led to Mount Everest on Everest.
About sea level rise…When so much ice melts…
Sea level rises rapidly at a rate of about 11 mm/year over a period of about 10,000 years.
(Siddall et al., 2003)
Over the past 7,000 years, scaling (larger ones on the left), we can see that during the Holocene climate optimal period, the late Pleistocene rapid sea level rise peaked between 6,000 and 5,000 years ago.
About 1,000 years ago, the climate changed from a warm medieval period to a small era of the Ice Age, and sea levels fell. It was as high as 6 meters before it began to rise slowly in the mid-1800s.
Here is the graph of CW11, moved to the same benchmark as J14:
Over a period of 150 years, sea levels rose about 13 inches.
This brings us back to New York City…
“There is a tidal gauge at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal,” Bell said. “Sea levels are rising all the time.”
have? It's best to let Noaa know…
Let's peak on the actual tidal meter:
The trend relative to sea level is 2.94 mm/year, based on monthly average sea level data, the confidence interval of +/- 0.09 mm/yr is 95%, which is equivalent to a change of 0.96 feet over 100 years.
Battery 2.94mm/year
The battery has the longest recorded length in the past 170 years… The stable speed is 2.94±0.09 mm/yr, starting from 47 years before the start of the climate disaster:
Of course, 2.94±0.09 mm/yr is a combination of water and land moving downwards.
NASA-led research precisely the sinking area of New York City, rising
September 27, 2023
Scientists using space radar found that New York City land fell at different rates of human and natural factors. Some spots are rising.
Scientists have found that parts of the metropolitan area of New York City are declining and rising at different rates due to factors ranging from land use practices to long-term glaciers. Although elevation changes appear to be small (a proportion of inches per year), they can increase or decrease the risk of local flooding associated with sea level rise.
The new study, published Wednesday in scientific advances, was published by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and a team of researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
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Scientists found that the average annual metropolitan area is about 0.06 inches (1.6 mm) each year, about the same amount of toenail growth in a month.
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NASA JPL
So we can knock out 1.6mm/year from 1.6mm/year at 2.94 mm/yr, actually rising sea level altitude to 1.34mm/year.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Rutgers University” NASA JPL
exist Science Advances The paper, “scientists” claim that sea level rise during battery is accelerating.
In the 20th century, the relative sea level of the Manhattan battery tidal gauge in New York City grew at a rate of about 3.1 mm/year. From 2000 to 2022, the speed has increased to 4.4 mm/year. The rate of approximately 1.5±0.2 mm/year has been attributed to statically adjusted-driven settlement such as glaciers [GIA; (1–3)].
Buzzanga et al., 2023
Even if we accept the acceleration claim, the 4.4-1.5 still brings us back 2.9mm/year…it's the same speed since it opened fire at Fort Sumter.
However, a quick look at NOAA's “changes in 50 years relative sea level trends” clearly shows that the recent acceleration is simply due to the recorded period of approximately 60-years (quasi-periodic fluctuations of mathematical nerds) rising at sea level.
This cycle is likely to be related to the Atlantic multi-year oscillation (Gervais, 2016, NCAR), rather than fossil fuel consumption.
Yes, I know…relevance does not equal causality. However, with correlation, it is difficult to continue causality.
Then there is the Bergen point of the shortest record length, completely within the current upper range of the ~60-year cycle.
I'm surprised they didn't cite the Bergen point as evidence to accelerate sea level rise [/Sarc off]
So…yes, there is a lot of evidence that once covered most of the ice that once covered New York City and the Northern Hemisphere…but they melted a long time ago…that’s a good thing. However, these ice sheets will almost certainly return sometime in the near future. It would be a very bad thing and it would be more disastrous than the 3mm/year rise in sea level:
It seems like the news without eyes ABC 7 story is not stupid enough…
March 31, 2025
Big banks quietly prepare for catastrophic warming
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and International Banking Group
Author: Corbin Hiar & E&E News
Climate Line | Industry documents show that institutions on the Supreme Wall Street are preparing for a sharp future of global warming, which has surpassed the temperature limits agreed by more than 190 countries a decade ago.
Big banks acknowledge that the world may not be able to prevent intakes above 2 degrees Celsius at pre-industrial levels, an artifact in an obscure report to clients, investors and trade association members.
Most people are published after President Donald Trump is re-election. After Donald Trump's re-election, he is seeking to abolish federal policies that support clean energy, while turbocharged oil, gas and coal production, a major source of global warming.
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Scientific American
Tip “Relevance is not a causal relationship”… Let yourself repeat yourself… From 1800 to 1900, the per capita energy consumption mainly comes from biomass, and remains relatively flat; the same as the average life expectancy. From 1900 to 1978, with the rapid growth of fossil fuel production (coal, oil and gas), per capita energy consumption increased approximately tripled. This is accompanied by double the average life expectancy. While I can't say that fossil fuels lead to an increase in life expectancy, I can clearly say that without fossil fuels, especially oil, there wouldn't be everything about an increase in life expectancy.
Without fossil fuels, our modern society would not exist, and would collapse in the heartbeat if fossil fuels were not available and/or could not bear it. One of the coolest things about being a petroleum geologist is that I can thank fossil fuels and say “you’re welcome” in the same sentence.
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