Re Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Rob McEwen <rob () invaluement com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet
> Date: July 23, 2018 at 11:53:41 AM GMT+9
> To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () listbox com>
>
> For the past 100+ years, the sea levels have been rising by about 2-4 mm per year. If you go to the following two 
> sites:
>
> https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sealevel.html <https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sealevel.html>
> https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/ <https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/>
>
> You'll see all kinds of scary language about dire predictions about how the sea levels are rising and accelerating. 
> And you'll see SCARY charts that look like Mt. Everest. But when you dig into the actual data, you'll find that there 
> MIGHT have been (at most!) a CUMULATIVE 1mm/year acceleration... but even that took about 4 decades to materialize, 
> it could be somewhat within the margin of error, and it might be a part of the fake data that often drives this 
> debate. Meanwhile, global warming alarmists have ALREADY made MANY dire predictions about oceans levels rising - that 
> ALREADY didn't even come close to true.
>
> The bottom line is that there is no trend of recently observed sea level rising data that is even close to being on 
> track to hit all these dire predictions within the foreseeable future. And even as the West has reduced (or lessened 
> the acceleration of) CO2 emissions - this has been easily made up for by the CO2 emission increases caused by the 
> modernization of China and India in recent decades.
>
> And, again, there were articles like this 10, 15, and even 20 years ago that made very similar predictions - that 
> didn't happen. So, it is hard to believe that the dire predictions in this article could come true in 15 years.
>
> But I suppose that it might be a good idea to take inventory of the absolute lowest altitude cables and make sure 
> that they are not vulnerable to the type of flooding that might happen more often after a few decades from now after 
> the ocean has further risen about 2 inches? But the sky is not falling anytime soon.
>
> Rob McEwen
>
>
> On 7/22/2018 9:04 PM, Dave Farber wrote:
> > > Begin forwarded message:
> > >
> > > From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com <mailto:sean () donelan com>>
> > > Subject: Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet
> > > Date: July 23, 2018 at 10:01:12 AM GMT+9
> > > To: nanog () nanog org <mailto:nanog () nanog org>
> > >
> > >
> > > https://www.popsci.com/sea-level-rise-internet-infrastructure 
> > > <https://www.popsci.com/sea-level-rise-internet-infrastructure>
> > >
> > > Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet, sooner than you think
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > Despite its magnitude, this network is increasingly vulnerable to sea levels inching their way higher, according to 
> > > research presented at an academic conference in Montreal this week. The findings estimate that within 15 years, 
> > > thousands of miles of what should be land-bound cables in the United States will be submerged underwater.
> > >
> > > “Most of the climate change-related impacts are going to happen very soon,” says Paul Barford, a computer scientist 
> > > at the University of Wisconsin and lead author of the paper.
> > > [...]
>
> -- 
> Rob McEwen
> https://www.invaluement.com <https://www.invaluement.com/>
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