New York Is Sinking

[SueEllen]

Due to it's sky scrapers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...climate-crisis

New York City is sinking in part due to the extraordinary weight of its vertiginous buildings, worsening the flooding threat posed to the metropolis from the rising seas, new research has found.

The Big Apple may be the city that never sleeps but it is a city that certainly sinks, subsiding by approximately 1-2mm each year on average, with some areas of New York City plunging at double this rate, according to researchers.

[NigelJK]

Some new usage of the word plunging there

[DoctorStrangelove]

They're jealous of the Millennium Skyscraper in San Francisco.

That's really sinking: 15" so far, with a nice lean to the north west.

[Zigenare]

A fantastic lefty-biased article in the Grauniad, has a dig at capitalism and climate change!

"subsiding by approximately 1-2mm each year on average, with some areas of New York City plunging at double this rate"

[ladymuck]

Due to it's sky scrapers.

its

[TheDude]

A fantastic lefty-biased article in the Grauniad, has a dig at capitalism and climate change!

"subsiding by approximately 1-2mm each year on average, with some areas of New York City plunging at double this rate"

Do you think climate change is a figment of 'the left's' imagination?

[Zigenare]

Do you think climate change is a figment of 'the left's' imagination?

Nope, I think it's part of the planet's natural cycle. We are of course part of the planet's ecosystem and it will react how it's going to react, compensate or not .

How did the planet react when it last overdosed on CO2? Oh yes, all the green stuff converted a lot of it to oxygen. You lefties need to stop being so arrogant as to think you're worth saving, humans are a transient species on this planet, just like all the others, including the dolphins who eventually will run out of fish.

All imo of course.

[Snooky]

Do you think all the scientists and scientific organisations who overwhelmingly agree with the worldwide consensus that climate change is mainly caused by human activities are misguided lefties too?

[d000hg]

When typical geological processes might involve changes of 1mm a decade, 2mm a year can reasonably be described as 'plunging'. Any geological change you can see happening in a single lifetime is incredibly quick.

Do you think all the scientists and scientific organisations who overwhelmingly agree with the worldwide consensus that climate change is mainly caused by human activities are misguided lefties too?

The scientists just haven't had the education that Ziggy did, they are unaware of things like age ages and orbital perturbation and other natural cycles. IT contractors get far better education on such matters than geologists, ecologists, etc.

[dsc]

Do you think all the scientists and scientific organisations who overwhelmingly agree with the worldwide consensus that climate change is mainly caused by human activities are misguided lefties too?

Clearly they are on their payroll, or it's all big pharma fault...