Sorry for the delay! Between school and the research I've gone a little scattered brained.
Over the past few weeks our little HOBO has been running non stop and collecting precious data. We have offloaded the data twice and have gotten some pretty good looking graphs.
Questions
J Ogadah from section 101. I have some questions... How would rising sea levels affect human life in Florida? How would it affect animal life? Is there concrete evidence that Florida is sinking and the sea level is rising, or is it mostly a hypothesis at this point? Does global warming cause this? Could rising sea levels have any effect on weather?
Thank you for your questions, I'll answer them in order. Rising Sea Levels would easily affect human life and animal life in a multitude of ways, the most obvious being that we slowly start to lose land as the ocean rises, animals that are native to our coasts are pushed further inland or begin to leave to find new areas to live or breed. As for concrete evidence NASA has our waters rising at 3.2 mm/year as for Florida sinking, since it is on top of porous limestone which easily erodes over time due to water. Climate Change can have an affect on this certainly, as the world heats up ice deposits melt adding more water to the ocean causing it to rise. Rising sea level can absolutely have an affect on weather as well, as the waters get deeper and the world gets warmer it can easily produce more and more powerful storms and hurricanes, we have seen this recently with Irma, Michael and Harvey, 3 catastrophic storms back to back is something we have not experienced before but is becoming a more frequent occurrence.
