Environment
If This GIF of 10,000 Years of Sea Level Rise Doesn't Freak You Out, Nothing Will
Water is now rising at a faster rate off the New Jersey coast than at any point in 6,000 years.
Fossilized sediment from New Jersey's salt marshes contains evidence of a migrating coast line. For some 2,000 years, up until the dawn of our modern warming era around 1900, the sea level off of what's now New Jersey was rising by about one to two millimeters a year, with the coast itself imperceptibly creeping inland. Today, the sea level is rising by three to five millimeters a year.
Perhaps that still doesn't sound like much. But this is the point of taking a very long view of history.