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This series has not been written for the tree huggers, polar bear huggers, or the like (The TH).
It has been written for the container ship huggers, the flag huggers, and the like (The CH).
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II. The Common Bond
The "common bond" between The TH and The CH is that what they hug is going extinct.
The "distinction" between The TH and The CH is that The CH created their own extinction scenario while making fun of The TH extinction scenario.
III. Review
There isn't much to review about The TH because they have been made famous by the trolling done on them by The CH, however, some readers will need to become more acquainted with the world of The CH.
IV. Top Ten Sea Ports of The CH
According to one of The CH (Who They?) the top ten seaports are:
10. Port of Tianjin(ArcBest Holdings LLC). According to The World Ocean Database, this means that the WOD Zones where those top ten seaports are located, are as follows:
9. Port of Dubai
8. Port of Qingdao
7. Port of Guangzhou
6. Port of Busan
5. Port of Hong Kong
4. Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan
3. Port of Shenzhen
2. Port of Singapore
1. Port of Shanghai
1010 (Singapore)(World Ocean Database). A recent Dredd Blog post produced PSMSL tide gauge records and graphs using those PSMSL records concerning those and other zones (Countries With Sea Level Change - 5).
1205 (Dubai)
1211 (Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou)
1212 (Ningbo-Zhoushan)
1311 (Qingdao,Tianjin)
1312 (Shanghai, Busan)
The relevant zones numbers for the top ten seaports above are in highlighted in red below:
SINGAPORE Coastline Id: 555
Zone List: 1010
Tide Gauge SLC:
1st year: 1954, last year: 2017
Span of years: 63 years
Summary: 94.5922 mm SLR (1.50146 mm SLR yr)
Thermosteric Slc:
1st year: 1954, last year: 2017
Span of years: 63 years
Summary: 7.16117 mm tsSlr (0.113669 mm tsSlr yr)
tsSlr percent of SLC: 7.57057% (total SLC: 94.5922 mm)
DUBAI Coastline Id: 482
Zone List: 1205
Tide Gauge SLC:
1st year: 1979, last year: 2016
Span of years: 37 years
Summary: 81.365 mm SLR (2.19905 mm SLR yr)
Thermosteric Slc:
1st year: 1979, last year: 2016
Span of years: 37 years
Summary: 1.07516 mm tsSlr (0.0290584 mm tsSlr yr)
tsSlr percent of SLC: 1.3214% (total SLC: 81.365 mm)
OTHER (CHINA) Coastline Id: 610
Zone List: 1011 1110 1111 1210 1211 1212 1311 1312
Tide Gauge SLC:
1st year: 1925, last year: 2018
Span of years: 93 years
Summary: 83.0678 mm SLR (0.893202 mm SLR yr)
Thermosteric Slc:
1st year: 1925, last year: 2018
Span of years: 93 years
Summary: 13.6852 mm tsSlr (0.147153 mm tsSlr yr)
tsSlr percent of SLC: 16.4747% (total SLC: 83.0678 mm)
HONG KONG Coastline Id: 611
Zone List: 1211
Tide Gauge SLC:
1st year: 1925, last year: 2018
Span of years: 93 years
Summary: 60.7667 mm SLR (0.653405 mm SLR yr)
Thermosteric Slc:
1st year: 1925, last year: 2018
Span of years: 93 years
Summary: 11.2412 mm tsSlr (0.120873 mm tsSlr yr)
tsSlr percent of SLC: 18.499% (total SLC: 60.7667 mm)
BUSAN Coastline Id: 625
Zone List: 1312
Tide Gauge SLC:
1st year: 1951, last year: 2018
Span of years: 67 years
Summary: 29.3968 mm SLR (0.438758 mm SLR yr)
Thermosteric Slc:
1st year: 1951, last year: 2018
Span of years: 67 years
Summary: 5.66714 mm tsSlr (0.0845841 mm tsSlr yr)
tsSlr percent of SLC: 19.2781% (total SLC: 29.3968 mm)
NINGBO-ZHOUSHAN Coastline Id: 612
Zone List: 1212
Tide Gauge SLC:
1st year: 1956, last year: 2018
Span of years: 62 years
Summary: 84.3917 mm SLR (1.36116 mm SLR yr)
Thermosteric Slc:
1st year: 1956, last year: 2018
Span of years: 62 years
Summary: 9.27498 mm tsSlr (0.149596 mm tsSlr yr)
tsSlr percent of SLC: 10.9904% (total SLC: 84.3917 mm)
III. Closing Comments
Most of the top ten are in only a few WOD Zones that are not far apart, and in fact they even border one another in some cases.
That means a common area impacted by the same SLC dynamics.
I wrote above that "some readers will need become more acquainted with the world of The CH", so here is a list of posts to read, which is a good way to do that (The Extinction of Robust Sea Ports, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10).
The Antarctica and Greenland Ice Sheet mass loss has increased six fold in recent decades (Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018, Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979–2017).
This post is a public service of Dredd Blog (The media are complacent while the world burns).
The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.
Port Authorities that oversee older ports indicate that a about a 1 m SLR will bring them to their knees. I guess one thing to consider is when the ports were built. Another is how does one big port going down stress the rest of them. Or two or three?
ReplyDeleteOnly 1.14% of the ice sheets need to melt to cause catastrophe to the oldest ports (Why Sea Level Rise May Be The Greatest Threat To Civilization).
ReplyDelete"Hanjin Shipping's dissolution was the largest and most significant bankruptcy in the container transport industry and it caused worldwide supply chain and shipping disruption as cargo ships were left stuck at ports and canals waiting for cash payments. Hanjin's bankruptcy created a massive ripple effect. Other businesses that rely on physical products found themselves without the expected revenue from inventory that became stuck at sea. Hanjin's abrupt cave-in occurred at an especially inconvenient time for retailers furnishing their inventories with imported items in preparation for a seasonal uptick in Thanksgiving, Christmas, Black Friday, and New Year's sales. Although large companies such as Nike were affected, the repercussions were more prominent on smaller companies." (Wikipedia Hanjin Shipping)
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