Posted on 01/22/2017 9:41:14 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
It is not the sea level that is changing. The volume of water on Earth is almost a constant. It is the ground that moves up or down which causes an apparent ‘change’ in sea level.
For instance, that last graph of the sea level change after an EARTHQUAKE.
I live just a few feet above sea level, and I live near one of the measurement stations.
But the data stopped at 1994.
I await a clear, easy to understand (and believe) explanation showing that mankind is causing the climate to be warmer, hence melting the polar ice caps, and making the seas rise.
I already know the planet got colder, hotter, colder BEFORE there was enough human activity to have caused it.
Your not thinking about WHO IS YOUR INTENDED AUDIENCE here!!!
I have two masters degrees and your information is overwhelming.
Why not have an executive summary page that the average folks can understand.
On second thought, if you are proposing that sea levels are rising....I will avoid your presentation...as propaganda.
I’m in the same boat. But will go to What’s up site and bookmark this new link.
Sea levels ARE rising, just not very much, not very fast, and it’s not worth worrying about at the moment (much less disrupting the economy). But to effectively argue with the global warming zealots, you need to bring as many facts to the table as you can, so the site seems useful.
The Data Page
Sealevel.info has coastal Mean Sea Level (MSL) measurement data from more than 1200 tide gauges. (Currently, all of the data is from PSMSL and NOAA.) On the Data page you can:
The Global warming folks have presented thousands of pages of DATA....but its all been manipulated.
How do you know that your data is real....frankly, I don’t think you can know that.
In some areas of California and Arizona, the land elevation has subsided 15 feet or more in the last 50 years due to water pumping and they are worried that beach is shifting a few fractions of a millimeter every year.
BTW , much of San Francisco sits on land that was part of the bay and under water a century ago but has been reclaimed with land fill.
Parts of the Pilgrim's Plymouth Rock in . Pilgrim Memorial State Park is still in it's original location from 1620 and it is still at the same relative water level that it was in 1620
Love WUWT as a resource. I had actually looked at a couple of tide gauges and buoys near the midatlantic region years ago and found a minimal rise in those datasets. This opens up the idea to more thorough analysis.
Very near my home we can walk the creeks and where there are channels cut to 15-20 feet, we can dig fossils of giant clam shells out of the banks. Even my young son can see that this embankment was a marine environment with abundant geology to show that, “The only constant is change.”
The greens are scammers trying to separate folks from their money.
Water expands when it freezes. So if the ice melts the sea level will drop.
Bookmark.
“apparent datum shifts”
Mentioned at the end and not to be overlooked.
The tide gauge uses a datum as a reference point. These are like survey markers put into the ground by USGS.
Those points are NOT fixed in space. Until they “map” those datums to true fixed points via satellite, you can really only use this data short term and not to identify a long term trend.
Stop with the science and logic.
Too intimidating for me, however, a section showing how hard women and children will be affected might be a nice touch.
Thanks for your work in this.
T
Ping.
Every working adult who checks the prognostications from the "weather predictors" knows that those said "predictors" cannot tell us with any real accuracy what will happen 10 minutes from now, 10 miles from here.
But using the same hardware and software they claim the ability to "know" what will be happening over the entire planet 100 years from now.
Sure.
Bmk
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