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.
“ronically, the best instrumentation available indicates that there has actually been a decrease in the rate of sea level rise over the last 20 years.”
Well, you just shot to hell any chance you had for a government or university grant.