The Rise and Bigger Rise of Mediterranean Sea Levels (theguardian.com) 17
Over the last 20 years, there has been twice as much sea level rise on Italy's Amalfi coast as on Spain's Costa del Sol, a study shows. From a report: Researchers combined data from tide gauges and satellites with ice melt measurements to model sea level change across the Mediterranean basin since 1960. To their surprise, they found that sea level fell by about 9mm between 1960 and 1989, owing to increased atmospheric pressure over the basin. But since 1989, ocean warming and land ice melting have driven rapid sea level rise, reaching an average rate of 3.6mm a year in the Mediterranean basin over the last two decades. The rise has not been spread evenly, however. Their findings, which are published in JGR Oceans, show that the Adriatic, Aegean and Levantine seas have risen by 8cm over two decades, while the Cretan passage in the eastern Mediterranean has risen by half this amount.
Re: That doesn't make sense. (Score:1)
Why is the Washington coast rising?
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isostatic rebound [wikipedia.org]
Re:That doesn't make sense. (Score:5, Informative)
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Wild stuff! Thanks.
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They should retake Jzanu's post and make that the article. The video in the first nasa link was extremely informative. Thank you for post that.
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Wow, that's gotta be freaking out the flat-earthers and their "water finds its level" beliefs.
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Why do economists still believe in equilibrium?
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1. You can reject any claim that "the" sea level is rising or falling, because there is no singular level.
2. You can reject any claim of a change whose value is within the range of already observed variation, because that is indistinguishable from natural variation.
3. You can reject any claim that there is "a" cause, because multiple factors influence the range of variation, and their interactions are dynamic; it's a system, not a single part.
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Help me understand this, because it's incoherent to my understanding of the world. We're talking about a singular, large body of water. The body of water has confines of the shores around it, and has minimal passage into other bodies of water, but it's not like you can stack water and not have it flow elsewhere.
Nope, it's connected to the Atlantic.
(Very close to the area where they say it hasn't risen much... go figure!)
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> Nope, it's connected to the Atlantic.
Through a gap 15 kilometrers wide. I'd say that counts as "minimal passage into other bodies of water".
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I was thinking that perhaps it's related to the size of the Med's outlet. Thereâ(TM)s a narrow channel at the western end (I assume the Suez Canal is insignificant), and that's it. There are several watersheds leading into the Med, including via the Black Sea. We already know that the Med is saltier than the Atlantic (I.e. it's a basin). I suppose a large influx of water could exceed the rate that it will flow out, but over time this difference between the western end (Spain) will even out with the
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More proof that the flat earth is tilting to one side.