BartSimpson BartSimpson:
N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:
...The skeptic site then says:...
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltren ... trends.htmAccording to this page Japan is going to drown well before the rest of the world does.
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One factor in disappearing shorelines is what happens when all that mass is dropped onto the land. Japan is on a fault zone and barely floating above the mantle of the Earth, so as we saw with the Tsunami a couple years ago a little water on land will cause the land to sink and allow even more water on to it - causing it to sink further. that's what made the tsunami far worse than predicted, because no one knew the land would sink so much under the weight all that water.
Everyone's favorite climatologist, James Hansen and colleagues, just did a computer simulation of what is to be expected given certain sea level rises, and place like Japan and the West coast of North America didn't do so well because they are located above pockets of magma. Added weight of sea water sunk the land faster than the tides rose, and the predicted 10 foot waves turned into 50 foot ones.