{"id":140207,"date":"2024-12-20T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=140207"},"modified":"2024-12-20T13:37:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:37:43","slug":"sea-levels-skyrocketing-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=140207","title":{"rendered":"Sea Levels Skyrocketing in the South"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/interactive\/2024\/us-south-sea-level-rise-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;It has also shown a dangerous trend: Since 2010, the sea level at the Fort Pulaski gauge has risen by more than 7 inches, one of the fastest ratesin the country, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/interactive\/2024\/southern-us-sea-level-rise-risk-cities\/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Washington Post analysis<\/a>&nbsp;of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data for 127 tide gauges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Similar spikes are affecting the entire U.S. Southeast \u2014 showing a glimpse of our climate future&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And the deluge stretches all across the South and the Gulf Coast; over the past 14 years, sea levels in the U.S. South have risen&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/interactive\/2024\/southern-us-sea-level-rise-risk-cities\/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">twice as fast<\/a>&nbsp;as the global average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s really the hot spot,\u201d said Ben Hamlington, a research scientistwho leads NASA\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sealevel.globalchange.gov\/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sea level change<\/a>&nbsp;team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The speed has worried scientists. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen over the past decade, decade and a half in the Gulf of Mexico is faster than most climate projections,\u201d said Chris Piecuch, an assistant scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what\u2019s causing this big concern.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;It has also shown a dangerous trend: Since 2010, the sea level at the Fort Pulaski gauge has risen by more than 7 inches, one of the fastest ratesin the country, according to&nbsp;a Washington Post analysis&nbsp;of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data for 127 tide gauges. Similar spikes are affecting the entire U.S. Southeast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140208,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140207\/revisions\/140208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}