So, yes, the sea is rising very slowly.
I'd guess that's thermal expansion of the water, due to rising earth temperatures over the last few centuries, due to increased solar activity over the last few centuries, since the mini ice age in the 1400's.
There ain't a heck of a lot we can do about it -- if we threw the entire planet earth into the Sun, I guess it would make for a nasty Sun spot. Well - it would certainly cause some serious global warming.
>> So, yes, the sea is rising very slowly.
I'd guess that's thermal expansion of the water, due to rising earth temperatures over the last few centuries, due to increased solar activity over the last few centuries, since the mini ice age in the 1400's.
There ain't a heck of a lot we can do about it -- if we threw the entire planet earth into the Sun, I guess it would make for a nasty Sun spot. Well - it would certainly cause some serious global warming.<<
NASA says about half of annual sea level rise is from thermal expansion and half is from melting ice.
The highest estimate I can find from a science group I trust is that the rate will triple in the next century. The lowest is that the rate will double.
Even tripled, that would be a quarter of an inch a year. Right now the rate is an inch every 12 years. So we can study this for 12 years and only have the water rise by an inch. There is time to study and not rush into Kyoto or a similar crippling treaty.
I would like to see the eventual Presidential nominees go on record about the Kyoto treaty.