This exclusive Reuters investigative series of articles and interactive information is a must read/see for everyone: politicians, regulators, school teachers and especially climate-change denialists.
"These findings, first reported July 10, aren’t derived from computer simulations like those used to model future climate patterns, which have been attacked as unreliable by skeptics of climate change research. The analysis is built on a time-tested measuring technology – tide gauges – that has been used for more than a century to help guide seafarers into port."
Please read and share this irrefutable evidence that the oceans are rising.
"Reuters analyzed millions of data entries and spent months reporting from affected communities to show that, while government at all levels remains largely unable or unwilling to address the issue, coastal flooding on much of the densely populated Eastern Seaboard has surged in recent years as sea levels have risen."
ABOUT THE ANALYSIS
When Reuters set out to measure the frequency of flooding along the U.S. coastline, it turned to one of the nation’s longest-running sentinels of the changing oceans: tide gauges.
These devices, originally deployed to assist navigation by mariners, are critical to understanding the interaction between land and sea. The gauges measure the level of the surface of the sea, relative to a fixed point on land.
Some gauges have been in operation for a century or more, providing a long-term view of sea levels unavailable from satellites. A gauge in San Francisco, installed in 1854, provides the Western Hemisphere’s longest-running continuous record of sea levels.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration operates more than 200 tide gauges on the U.S. coast and the shores of the Great Lakes. Most of the data is online and available to the public through multiple portals operated by NOAA. The gauges “give a very unbiased view of what’s going on along the coast,” said William Sweet, a NOAA oceanographer.
WET SEASON: Annapolis officials say street flooding at high tide or during rainstorms has become more common in recent years - an observation backed by Reuters’ tide-gauge analysis. REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert
May I suggest that you begin reading here, Part one: As the seas rise, a slow-motion disaster gnaws at America’s shores; http://www.reuters.com/...
Part two: Why Americans are flocking to their sinking shores even as the risks mount? http://www.reuters.com/...
Be sure and click on the supplemental information, which includes very educational interactive presentations.
This is the kind of journalism that makes one proud.