Posted on 06/24/2019 4:10:01 PM PDT by xzins
Abstract: Over the past decades, detailed surveys of the Pacific Ocean atoll islands show no sign of drowning because of accelerated sea-level rise. Data reveal that no atoll lost land area, 88.6% of islands were either stable or increased in area, and only 11.4% of islands contracted. The Pacific Atolls are not being inundated because the sea level is rising much less than was thought. The average relative rate of rise and acceleration of the 29 long-term-trend (LTT) tide gauges of Japan, Oceania and West Coast of North America, are both negative, −0.02139 mm yr−1 and −0.00007 mm yr−2 respectively. Since the start of the 1900s, the sea levels of the Pacific Ocean have been remarkably stable.
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Data reveal that no atoll lost land area, 88.6% of islands were either stable or increased in area, and only 11.4% of islands contracted.
But as the paper points out, only the ground truth matters. What is happening on the islands. No net loss of land. In many cases the opposite.
I agree with what you’re saying on its face but if you’re inferring that Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner is an “alarmist” and that what he wrote supports the “alarmists” then you’re way off base. I just can’t tell by the way you stated it.
How do they get it to stand still long enough to measure???
Inconvenient Question for a Global Warming Expert, not including Bill Nye:
Last year I was in Glacier National Park, and saw the Salamander Glacier and Grinnell Glacier were indeed somewhat less extensive than when I saw them as a young man in the 1960s. I was told by an Earth Science guy summering as a NPS Ranger that the Many Glacier Valley was once filled with ice to a depth of 1,000+ feet.
Later, it occurred to me that the melting of ice is largely a function of the relationship between glacial surface area and volume, that is, the greater the surface area relative to volume, the faster ice will melt. So, even if temps were constant, wouldnt glaciers melt at an accelerated rate as they became thinner and thinner relative to their expanse?
I cant find this subject addressed anywhere on the net.
Finland is growing by 2.7 sq miles/year.
Ice-age rebound the stated cause, which is a reminder that the the surface of the earth is not static and unchanging, but constantly flexing, if slowly. There is no normal.
Parts of the original Jamestown Fort have been submerged due to that rise. Now maybe the original Jamestown Fort will be complete soon. But just not in our lifetimes. Lol.
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This is bunk!
The pacific has not risen since 1932.
It has continuously fallen since 1934.
You can verify this through the USC&GS benchmark data. (the benches appear to be rising when the ocean falls)
Warm seas cause ingratiation.
The glaciers could have been mostly built up in a short period. Once you get glaciated, the oceans are cooled and evaporation is much less. You can get copious amounts of rain, while entering the glacial, because the oceans have a higher base temperature. And that can support massive El Nino’s. But once cooled, glaciated world, ocean temps are so low that El Ninos may not be warm enough to produce significant evaporation.
Still have no clue what ends the glacial.
What is bunk?
If the Pacific is showing no rise, if the islands are stable, then why all this alarm?
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This is a nonsense metric! Everyone knows islands float! No matter how much the ocean has risen, the islands will still float on it.
And if islands don’t float, then why did Congress have to worry so much about Guam flipping over? Huh?
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Sea levels rising is bunk.
They switched from earth based hard measurement to manipulable sat data that can be twisted easily in the mid ‘80s to combat the falling seas.
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And the Earth is a rug suspended from elephants’ trunks...
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OK, I get you now. Totally agree!
Models are meaningless without a long track record of accuracy coinciding with reality. So far I don’t think the warmists have created a single model with a single year of accurate prediction.
Really?
Wow.
Ok. I get it. Now things make so much more sense.
Thanks.
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