These global warming/climate change advocates make so many unsubstantiated claims that they are causing confusion.
Floods or new ice age?
How many inches have the oceans risen in the last century?
Do I get hip-high wading boots or a parka?
Nature has not been cooperating with Al Gore and those who are making the claim that because of fossil fuel use both worldwide temperatures and the sea level are going to rise dramatically.
Without satellite data, the actual amount that the seas have risen is actually more difficult to determine than one might think. This is largely because coastal land masses are simultaneously rising and falling in different world. This is due to a number of factors including continental shift, volcanic activity, seismic activity, erosion, and numerous other natural processes. The data seems to show that the seas have risen around 6 inches in the last hundred years and have been rising at a similar rate since the “little ice age”. All though one would expect that melting glaciers and sediment carried from land masses due to erosion into the oceans would play a part, most of this sea level rise during this period is theorized to be from thermal expansion of the waters. In some places such as Bangladesh he amount of land mass above Sea Level has increased due to soils being deposited by rivers from the process of erosion. This is despite scary predictions that the entire country would soon be under water. Many Pacific Atolls have been gaining land mass as well despite the scary predictions. /p>
Ironically, the best instrumentation available indicates that there has actually been a decrease in the rate of sea level rise over the last 20 years. This corresponds with satellite data that shows that there has been no measurable “global warming” during the same time period despite rising CO2 levels.
See my post #24 below.
Bet on needing a parka. The solar climate modelers can make models that are correct back for millions of years, the general circulation types who believe in “global warming” can’t get their models to fit a century of data without basically hand-fitting it, and then it goes wrong the previous century or the next decade.
As I said for years. The most damaging effect of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming crowd is the damage they have done and are doing to the reputation and public view of Science.
Your post confirms that. This author is a poor source to get this information from.