A paper titled “The rate of sea-level rise” published in Nature Climate Change on March 23 by Cazenave, et al. shows that during the last decade the rate of sea level rise has declined by about 30% during the period 2003 through 2011 to about 2.4 mm/year from the rate of 3.4 mm/year in the period 1992 through 2002.
Assuming a continuing average rise of 2.4 mm/year, in 100 years the oceans will have risen 240 mm, about 9.4 inches. Assuming an average rise of 3.4 mm/year, 13.4 inches.
Show me a person that is really scared of the tide coming in 13 inches more than 1000 years ago. I guess I've never understood how if the earth is warming, and the great plains and the great lakes were formed, AFTER the ice age, doesn't it follow that warming after receding ice after an ice age lead to MORE land?
Help me understand.