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Tide gauges in the Chesapeake Bay have shown for 60 years that
sea level “is rising at twice the global average rate and faster
than elsewhere on the East Coast”, the University of Vermont
said. He argued additional, “Will the Congress simply sit there
with their ft getting ever wetter?”

“It’s a bit like sitting on one side of a water bed filled with
very thick honey, then the other side goes up”, the study’s lead
author, Ben DeJong said in a statement.

The study concludes that, indeed, the land under the Chesapeake
Bay is sinking quickly and the researchers project that
Washington, D.C. could drop by six or more inches in the next
century.

To some, the results of a study that concludes the District of
Columbia is sinking is a physical manifestation of the political
environment in the nation’s capital. Instead, natural causes
such as groundwater withdrawal, and the settling of land after
ancient ice sheets had melted to be the reasons behind
Washington DC sinking-two processes that have been occurring for
some 20,000 years now, and show no indication of stopping. It
was revealed in GSA Today, the journal of the Geological Society
of America, on Monday.

Close in, the banks of the Anacostia and Potomac rivers would
feel the greatest impact of a three-foot rise, while park areas
around the Tidal Basin would also diminish. By using modern-day
technology, it allowed the scientists to create a 3-D map of
what the land in the Chesapeake region looked like during its
post-glacial periods.

Researchers drilled 70 boreholes in Maryland to examine sediment
to calculate the age of sand, rocks and organic matter in the
layer.

Senior author and UVM geologist Paul Bierman questions whether
the nation’s lawmakers will take action, despite strong
scientific evidence of potentially disastrous inundation by the
sea in the not-too-distant future. The IPCC reports that sea
levels have increased roughly 1.8 millimeters a year worldwide
over the past century. “Six inches of extra water really matters
in this part of the world”. Land is expected to fall 6 inches or
more during the next 100 years, raising flood fears and adding
to worries about the effect of rising sea levels on low-lying
cities.

In a rather disconcerting study, a team of geologists from the
University of Vermont, the US Geological Survey and other
institutions have alleged that the land under the Chesapeake
Bay, which is the largest estuary in the US, is subsiding at an
accelerated pace.

http://sentinelrepublic.com/washington-d-c-expected-to-sink-6- inches-over-next-100-years/49350/

Pray for a giant sinkhole to take that black infested piece of
shit city and all the political trash inside it.

 

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