On 7/2/2012 11:10 AM, Han wrote:
Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote in
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Take Venice

Venice is an exception (probably shared with New Orleans and Bangla Desh).
The really bad thing is that the ground is sinking due to compaction of the
mud it's built on. That is more important then the rising sea level.
Also, in the case of Venice and Bangla Desh, they are at the apex of long
fairly narrow bodies of water, the Adriatic sea and Bay of Bengal, and if
tides and wind maliciously cooperate, there is an enormous surge of water
flowing NW into those shallow lagoons, where it has nowhere to go but up.

Overall, land masses have different tendencies to go up or down, sometimes
associated with (they think) the fact that old, old glaciers from the ice
ages aren't there anymore to weigh those land masses down. Scandinavia is
one example. One of the scary reasons to pay attention to ocean warming is
that much is really cold (like in the 30's and low 40's in Fahrenheit). If
all that ocean water warms just a few degrees, it will expand, and thus the
level will go up. Somebody ought to have the calculated data how much up
that up is.


I am not buying the water expanding hunch at all. The tides make much
more of a difference and wave action would add to that. A couple of
more inches from temperature expansion would be unnoticed.