© Leonard OhenhenThe above graphic features: a spatial map of vertical land motion on the East Coast (left panel); primary, secondary, and interstate roads on Hampton Roads, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach, Virginia (top right panel); and John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York (bottom right panel). The yellow, orange and red areas on these maps denote areas of sinking.
Major cities on the U.S. Atlantic coast are sinking, in some cases as much as 5 millimeters per year -
a decline at the ocean's edge that well outpaces global sea level rise, confirms new research from Virginia Tech and the U.S. Geological Survey.
Particularly hard hit population centers such as New York City and Long Island, Baltimore, and Virginia Beach and Norfolk
are seeing areas of rapid "subsidence," or sinking land, alongside more slowly sinking or relatively stable ground, increasing the risk to roadways, runways, building foundations, rail lines, and pipelines,
according to a study published Jan. 2 in the
Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.
Lead author
Leonard Ohenhen, a graduate student working with
Associate Professor Manoochehr Shirzaei at Virginia Tech's Earth Observation and Innovation Lab warned:
"Continuous unmitigated subsidence on the U.S. East Coast should cause concern. This is particularly in areas with a high population and property density and a historical complacency toward infrastructure maintenance."
Shirzaei and his research team pulled together a vast collection of data points
measured by space-based radar satellites and used this highly accurate information to build digital terrain maps that show exactly where sinking landscapes present risks to the health of vital infrastructure. Using the publicly available satellite imagery, Shirzaei and Ohenhen
measured millions of occurrences of land subsidence spanning multiple years. They then created some of the world's first high resolution depictions of the land subsidence.
Comment: This passed without so much as a 'meh' from globalist media. Of course! It doesn't fit their climate change narrative.
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