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   From: send-dc-straight-to-hell@nytimes.com   
      
   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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