[Lazamataz]

OMG

John Semmens, I had to check to see if this was YOUR work.

It's becoming sooo much harder to write satire, when the subjects satire themselves.

[smokingfrog]

Don’t everybody go pee at the same time! We might have an epic disaster on our hands!

[Myrddin]

No mention of the continuous deposition of material coming in from the sun. The earth continues to grow over time. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. Mass is conserved. If you see more, it is coming from outside the closed system you are measuring. There are huge balls of water ice hitting the planet all the time. The global warming goofs have their head in the sand...because they have an agenda.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Michael.SF.]

This strikes me as a bit odd and may not match much of what is going on in the world of water replenishment. There are numerous projects that I am aware of that are focused on ground water replenishment as well as the use of ‘barrier’ pumps: Injecting recycled water into areas close to the sea to prevent sea water intrusion.

If the sea water is creeping into the water table, that would result in a decrease in the ocean level, not an increase.

Recycled water is also becoming increasingly injected into the water table so as to raise the water table and thus serve to replenish water taken out at wells.

[Ron C.]

What a crock. There ain’t no missing water.

[Boiling point]

UN-FRICKIN-BELIEVABLE! Every molecule of water the earth started with is still here but for that the Astronauts took to space. Adam and Eve’s pee is still being recycled.

[Dogbert41]

Maybe it’s all the water inside 7 billion people?

[No One Special]

How did they control for the possibility that the number of fishies in the sea is growing?

[tiki]

IOW, “I’m an environmentalist and the world would be so much better if at least half of you died.”

[TigersEye]

During the latter half of the twentieth century, global sea level rose by about 1.8 millimetres per year, according to data from tide gauges. The combined contribution from heating of the oceans, which makes the water expand, along with melting of ice caps and glaciers, is estimated to be 1.1 millimetres per year, which leaves some 0.7 millimetres per year unaccounted for. This gap has been considered an important missing piece of the puzzle in estimates for past and current sea-level changes and for projections of future rises.

That is puzzling. That's a far lower rate of rise than the average over the last 18,000 years. It's puzzling that they're looking for an explanation for an increase when their figures for the last half century's rise has been 7-10 times less than that.

Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud

Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.

From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.

[Still Thinking]

[eyeroll] I bet they didn’t allow for inland locations that deal with wastewater by treating it and returning it to the aquifer. Idiots.

[Migraine]

sea level rose by about 1.8 millimetres per year, according to data from tide gauges

Data from tide gauges are inadequate. They are referenced to the land itself. It cannot be established reasonably that the land has not risen or fallen with respect to sea level. The only reliable sea level indicator is taken from the viewpoint of a satellite. During one decade between the 80s and 90s, these satellite-based measurements showed a 10-year rise of 3 mm (±7mm). How ludicrous is that? And how stupid to get worked up over it.

[Cementjungle]

Maybe it’s all the cruise ships displacing water, or people swimming in the oceans, or more whales, etc.

[Smokin' Joe]

Biomass! When it is warm more critters and trees grow, and that takes water.

[Iron Munro]

Yes - the world has never been the same since Al Gore's 67 meter rise in sea levels
inundated Greenland, Manhattan, Florida and Vanuatu.

[Born to Conserve]

Most subsidence is caused by settling and decomposition of sediment. Under natural circumstances these losses were replaced by continuing deposition. Build a city on a delta, and you will get New Orleans.

[Prospero]

The water cycle seems to be an alien concept to these people. So, I suppose the "missing water" that "should be" flooding Tuvalu, etc. is locked up in the human biomass?

Anyone want to hazard a back of the envelope guesstimate as to how many acre-feet, or hectares, or gallons might be stored on "dry land" in seven billion people?

Someone's not taking their fluid pills!

[count-your-change]

Seven tenths of millimeter? sea level measured to an accuracy of 7/10 mm.? Right. Sure. Maybe it’s all the ship’s displacing water.

[al_c]

We’re all gonna die!!!!!!

Stop using water if you want to live, people!

Oh ... we need water?

We’re all gonna die!!!!!!!