[cogitator]

I think John Daly of Still Waiting For Greenhouse will be REAL interested in reading this article.

[cogitator]

Here's a bit more information on the study from the CSIRO Web site (including where it was published, which Space Daily omitted):

LANDMARK STUDY CONFIRMS RISING AUSTRALIAN SEA LEVEL

[DWSUWF]

"...Dr Hunter said that scientific and popular interest in possible rises of global sea level, with attendant increased risks of coastal flooding have emphasised the need for a long time series of sea level measurements..."

LOL!

At the rate of one millimeter a year (roughly a foot every 330~340 years) New York will be underwater just in time for the next Ice Age...

Hell... Volcanoes and other vents in the crust and ocean floor probably outgas that much 'new water' over time.

[Redcloak]

Are we sure that the sea is really rising? I don't see how one can arbitrarily rule out the possibility that Australia is sinking.

[Slewfoot]

"The scientific interest at the time was the question of vertical motion or uplifting of the continents rather than changes in volume of the oceans.

They proved the water moved up or the rock moved down. The answer as to which may be effectd by the agenda of the observer.

[Procyon]

It's not clear from the article that this is newly released research results. If their talking about the records of 1841-1842, well John Daly has already critiqued the report on his web site. In other words, this is a rehash of an old argument. Much ado about nothing.

[Dog Gone]

Anyone with even a basic knowledge of geology knows that rising and falling sea levels are responsible for much of the depositional layers of rock on this planet.

Basically, the sea level is always either rising or falling. Welcome to Planet Earth.

[DBrow]

If you look at Palos Verde peninsula, near Torrance, CA, about 20 miles south of LAX, you will see a series of steps on the hill (currently 1200 feet above sea level). The museums up there explain that the steps were caused by wave action when the sea level was 300, 600, 800, and 1000 feet higher than it currently is. Inland, there are hills in Redondo that are fossil sand dunes that blew up when the sea level was much lower.

At its highest, based on this fossil record, Pasadena was once the shore, and further back the beach was a mile longer.

So the sea level changes on Earth? How very surprising!

[lewislynn]

Mark of hot dispute. Photograph by J. Daly (1999)

Regardless of what mean sea level is/was the fact remains:

"What is so fascinating is that the mark appears to some to be 30 centimetres above the current mean sea level."

or photographable at all after 160 yrs. of global warming....OH that's right, I forgot. Up untill the 1970's we were entering an ice age, the dyslexic sceintists suddenly changed that scare tactic to "global warming".