New York City is sinking under the weight of skyscrapers, according to a study https://t.co/BckzXYMz0Z pic.twitter.com/b4poa9Mdi4

— CNN (@CNN) May 19, 2023

We knew it was going to happen eventually.

I’ve known ever since I saw that Al Gore documentary.

The Guardian:

New York City is sinking in part due to the extraordinary weight of its vertiginous buildings, worsening the flooding threat posed to the metropolis from the rising seas, new research has found.

The Big Apple may be the city that never sleeps but it is a city that certainly sinks, subsiding by approximately 1-2mm each year on average, with some areas of New York City plunging at double this rate, according to researchers.

This sinking is exacerbating the impact of sea level rise which is accelerating at around twice the global average as the world’s glaciers melt away and seawater expands due to global heating. The water that flanks New York City has risen by about 9in, or 22cm, since 1950 and major flooding events from storms could be up to four times more frequent than now by the end of the century due to the combination of sea level rise and hurricanes strengthened by climate change.

“A deeply concentrated population of 8.4 million people faces varying degrees of hazard from inundation in New York City,” researchers wrote in the new study, published in the Earth’s Future journal.

The authors added that the risks faced by New York City will be shared by many other coastal cities around the world as the climate crisis deepens. “The combination of tectonic and anthropogenic subsidence, sea level rise, and increasing hurricane intensity imply an accelerating problem along coastal and riverfront areas,” they wrote.

This trend is being magnified by the sheer bulk of New York City’s built infrastructure. The researchers calculated that the city’s structures, which include the famous Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, weigh a total of 1.68tn lbs, which is roughly equivalent to the weight of 140 million elephants.

You do have to wonder though: China is building entire cities on reclamation land in the ocean. If that is possible, then why is it not possible for New York to deal with this issue?

The answer, of course, is that China is able to focus on development and technology and progress because it is a communist CCP autocracy country run by the communistic Chinese Communist Party, which engages in the wholesale genocide of innocent terrorists and won’t even allow mass immigration from Africa.

Meanwhile, America is a democracy, which is based on the values of the rules-based order, because that’s who we are. We are building a utopia, which means we have to take money out of technological advancement and spend it on trans kids, black people, junkies, and endless wars.

Technological advancement and maintaining a modern civilized society simply is not on our agenda. That’s not who we are. We are building a utopia.

Is it sink time now?

LA Times:

A major California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving for the first time on record, a result of this year’s Ridgecrest earthquake sequence destabilizing nearby faults, Caltech scientists say in a new study released in the journal Science on Thursday.

In the modern historical record, the 160-mile-long Garlock fault on the northern edge of the Mojave Desert has never been observed to produce either a strong earthquake or even to creep — the slow movement between earthquakes that causes a visible scar on the ground surface. But new satellite radar images now show that the fault has started to move, causing a bulging of land that can be viewed from space.

“This is surprising, because we’ve never seen the Garlock fault do anything. Here, all of a sudden, it changed its behavior,” said the lead author of the study, Zachary Ross, assistant professor of geophysics at Caltech. “We don’t know what it means.”

The observations reported are another piece of evidence that illustrates a widely persistent myth that circulates in California and beyond — that quakes like the Ridgecrest temblors are somehow a good thing that makes future quakes less likely. In fact, generally speaking, earthquakes make future earthquakes more likely. Most of the time, the follow-up quakes are smaller. But occasionally, they’re bigger.

The creeping illustrates how the Ridgecrest quakes that began on the Fourth of July have destabilized this remote desert region of California between the state’s greatest mountain range, the Sierra Nevada, and its lowest point, Death Valley. Not only has the Garlock fault begun to creep in one section, but there’s also been a substantial swarm of small earthquakes in another section of the fault, and two additional clusters of earthquakes elsewhere — one south of Owens Lake and the other in the Panamint Valley just west of Death Valley.

Whether the destabilization will result in a major quake soon cannot be predicted. In September, the U.S. Geological Survey said the most likely scenario is that the Ridgecrest quakes probably won’t trigger a larger earthquake. Nevertheless, the USGS said that the July quakes have raised the chances of an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 or more on the nearby Garlock, Owens Valley, Blackwater and Panamint Valley faults over the next year.

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What’s unusual now, Ross said, is that the Garlock fault has been seismically quiet in the historical record until now. And while it’s unclear what the creeping and aftershocks might mean for the near future, the newly recorded movement highlights how much of a potential risk the Garlock fault is to California, should it rupture in a big way.

A large quake on the Garlock fault has the potential to send strong shaking to the San Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita, Lancaster, Palmdale, Ventura, Oxnard, Bakersfield and Kern County, one of the nation’s most productive regions for agriculture and oil. Important military installations could also get strong shaking, such as Edwards Air Force Base, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and Fort Irwin National Training Center. The fault is crossed by two of Southern California’s most important supplies of imported water — the California and Los Angeles aqueducts — and critical roads like Interstate 5, state routes 14 and 58 and U.S. 395.

A major quake on the Garlock fault could then, in turn, destabilize the San Andreas. A powerful earthquake on a stretch of the roughly 300-mile-long southern San Andreas fault could cause the worst shaking the Southern California region has felt since 1857, and send destructive tremors through Los Angeles and beyond.

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Earthquake scientists not affiliated with the study called the discovery of the triggered creep on the Garlock fault scientifically interesting that should be understood better, but emphasize that its implications are not clear. Although the Garlock hasn’t been observed to creep before in response to big quakes, other faults that have crept haven’t been seen to rupture in major quakes.

“It’s actually probably pretty common, and if that’s the case … that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s portending something terrible,” said Page of the USGS.

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Despite the uncertainty, what’s happening in this region bears close scrutiny, given how the Garlock fault is an important major fault for Southern California. There are few big earthquakes that have been observed in California in modern times, and just because something hasn’t been observed in the past doesn’t mean it can’t happen.

We have discussed the theory that California will not sink into the Pacific Ocean, and it has been proven that this is a lie.

In actual, factual reality, it is only a matter of time before all of these assfuckers, Mexicans, kikes and whores all SINK for good.

This is science. 

And not the fake kind that so many homos FUCKING LOVE!

The very real kind that means ultimate damnation for sodomites and Mexicans.

The last thing I want is for Miami to sink.

In fact, I want Miami to rise and conquer the earth – with me as CYBORG KING OF MIAMI.

Daily Mail:

Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez predicts that Miami will not exist ‘in a few years’ if the Green New Deal is not passed.

The New York representative, 29, made her chilling warning about the effects of climate change at the NAACP forum on Wednesday.

‘What is not realistic is not responding with a solution on the scale of the crisis — because what’s not realistic is Miami not existing in a few years,’ she said.

Ocasio-Cortez reiterated that we need to be ‘realistic’ about the problem and make changes immediately.

She revealed the Green New Deal proposal in February, which focused on changing the economy, renewable energy alternatives and resource efficiency.

In August she also said if glaciers melt they could release ‘prehistoric diseases… killing humans.’

She added: ‘There are a lot of diseases that are frozen in some of these glaciers that scientists fear that there is a potential that a lot of diseases could escape these melted glaciers.’

This is incredibly serious.

The last thing we need is a sunken Miami, prehistoric diseases…

Why again is AOC not allowed to run for president in 2020?

Oh right – racism.

We are all doomed.

Let us hope that instead of Miami sinking, everything else sinks and Miami rises – with me as the CYBORG KING.

And I will be protected by my cyborg female death ninjas who I pay with cocaine and access to my invincible cyborg penis.

Everyone will bow before me and my empire of Aryan Miami… or they will pay the ultimate price.

Which is being chopped up by ninja cyborgs with laser swords.

But probably they will already have drowned anyway because of weather changing from people driving cars or whatever.