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To: Raycpa

How do we know that sea rise is not actually land sinking?


6 posted on 03/10/2009 11:14:31 AM PDT by DonaldC
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To: DonaldC
No - Seal level rise IS related to (local) land levels fallings.

But the longest term analysis corrects for the rising areas. (Some land is falling - particularly when underground water/oil is pumped out, some rising as earlier glacier loads were removed after the last ice age.)

The key in this “alarmist-press-release” is that ALL the numbers are “fears” and “might be” - the actual levels are going up less than 1 mm per year.

20 posted on 03/10/2009 11:23:12 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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Most of the Canadian land mass is still rising — from having been pushed into the magma by a two-mile thick ice sheet; up to the beginning of the current warming phase (about 8,000 years ago).
23 posted on 03/10/2009 11:24:51 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: DonaldC

Actually, the northern part of the US and Canada is rising, having been squished for thousands of years by glaciers.


42 posted on 03/10/2009 11:33:57 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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