[PROCON]

I know AGW is bunk, but this author poses an interesting "what if" scenario.

Thanks to all FR science types for your input on this hypothesis.

[PROCON]

Ping!

[Oshkalaboomboom]

This must have been what Randi Rhoades was talking about when she said she hoped Rush Limbaugh’s house would wash away.

[Hodar]

Scientists are trying to get a better picture of the complex phenomenon, which also depends on a host of natural factors.

So, AGW Scientists (and I use that word LOOSELY) are trying to blame a potential problem on one man made hoax, instead of "a host of natural factors". Am I missing something?

[2dollarbill]

The sea level has been going up and down since the beginning of time. If the sea rises, buy a houseboat. If the sea sevel goes down, dig clams & be happy. So what’s the problem?

[beethovenfan]

Operative word: “COULD”. Any idiot can predict that something COULD happen.

[sodpoodle]

Good grief - do we really have to go over this again?

The Earth revolves around the sun. The moon affects the oceans’ tides.

Then there’s gravity.

[huldah1776]

Speaking of which - its a La Nina winter like 1955

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,732303,00.html

[NonValueAdded]

♫ The waves on the sea go up and down, up and down, up and down ... ♫

[tubebender]

Are you telling me the ocean rises in one spot and falls in another and you expect me to believe it???

[Lazlo in PA]

Wow. Some poet socialist Euro trash writer says the sky might fall and we think there are interesting concepts here? It's Der Spiegel. They prey every night in their Druid fashion to trees that more people believe this to expand their control over our lives.

Said Euro trash:

[Osage Orange]

The more boats they float...increases the sea level.

Do they say anything about that?

[SnuffaBolshevik]

[UCANSEE2]

The very ground itself rises and falls all the time, especially along the coastline.

Some continents, the ocean rises on one coast while it is falling on the other.

The oceans are fairly constant, and do not change their median level. What happens is that the ground (the crust) moves, and makes it appear that the sea is rising or falling.

Just look at the volcanoes that pop up out of the ocean. If you measured sea level around their perimeter, you could conclude the ocean was falling.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Probably out of context but...

[DBrow]

Yano, this could be true. Just the other night I made a pile of water on the right side of my bathtub, about three inches high.

So it makes perfect sense for one part of, say, the Pacific, to stick up several feet over the other parts, or for there to be a hole in the water somewhere.

After all, AGW causes floods, droughts, rain, hurricanes, and lack of hurricanes.

[Hot Tabasco]

If the Greenland ice sheet, which is 3 kilometers (1.88 miles) thick in some places, were to melt completely, sea levels would rise by 7 meters on average.

If my aunt had balls she woulda been my uncle..........

But I digress, if the Greenland ice sheet were to melt completely, the global temperature of this planet would be so high that life as we know it would probably have died off long before Iceland melted into the sea.........

[cookcounty]

OF COURSE seas are rising in the south....it's simple PHYSICS.

There is something known as "ice age rebound" which is and has been occuring in near-arctic and near antarctic latitudes for many centuries. Old ports along the Finnish coast, for example, are in some cases now high and dry, a kilometer away from today's coastline. The compression caused by the overburden of ice during the ice-age is still "springing back." Finland's land area is literally GROWING by some 2-3 square mile per year, and this phenomenon is true across the northern lands. Which means land must be disappearing SOMEWHERE else.

If the sea recedes in one place, it MUST rise somewhere else, whether Global Warming is occuring or not...... the question is what aspect of sea-rise is due to this factor and what is due to GW, and how is it measured?

[antidemoncrat]

I may not be the smartest person around, but if all the oceans and major seas are interconnected, how could the levels vary other than local miniscule changes due to gravitational variations or tidal effects?

[diverteach]

This is great news. Now I won’t have to worry a low tide will keep me from getting my sailboat in and out of the bayou.

[eclecticEel]

To anyone standing on a beach, the ocean looks as flat as a pancake.

It's safe to assume the author has never actually been to a beach.