Sometimes the smallest things remind us how quickly the seas are rising. Last Sunday I found a large old femur on Crane’s Beach in Ipswich Massachusetts. The most likely explanation is that it was eroded from dunes that had encroached on a farm that was behind the beach up until about the Fifties. The bone looked like it could have been over a hundred years old. Happy Thanksgiving all!
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Wow, I doubt that I have ever seen such spurious assumptions about finding a bone on a beach used to beat the global warming drum. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Well the dunes are eroding back between 5 and 10 feet a month on this beach. Wind waves and tides all have a part but sea level rise is what is causing the net annual loss. The ocean was about a foot lower when this femur was buried. According to the generally accepted rule of thumb that translates into 120 feet of lateral erosion landward.
By: The Climate Realist on December 2, 2011
at 4:38 am
Seriously, you might want to send your sea level data to this guy, I’m sure he would be very happy to review it for you.
Nils-Axel Mörner was head of paleogeophysics and geodynamics at Stockholm University (1991-2005), president of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution (1999-2003), leader of the Maldives sea level project (2000-11), chairman of the INTAS project on geomagnetism and climate (1997-2003).
You can read his report into sea level changes here.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/7438683/rising-credulity.thtml
By: The Climate Realist on December 2, 2011
at 8:09 pm