GGG Ping!
It sounds as if you'll have plenty of time to move your house if you're too close to the ocean.
Really.
How does this socialist dingbat know that the sea level has risen? Maybe the land sunk.
"I can't think of a natural process that would have started in 1900"
Ergo, SUV's are bad, m'kay?
I'm not too sure what scientific conclusions may be drawn from a single data point. Staying in the Mediterranean area, I recall the plain between the site of Troy and the beach where the Greeks landed is a mile or more wider then in ancient times. Further the area around Alexandria that held the palace of Cleopatra is totally submerged now, and has been for centuries. The Mediterranean seems to have been active for a long longer then just 100 years.
Has anyone noticed the Tidal Basin in DC rearing up to swallow the national monuments in the last century ?
I am always struck by their glib pronouncements that rising sea levels have to be cause by humans.
Did humans cause the "little Ice Age"?
It should be no secret that the earth warms and cools for a variety of reasons and, as is being discovered,that warming or cooling can be sudden. Why do they assume that it has to be gradual and measured?
There are many things in Nature that are not.
The moon is falling and we're all gonna die!!
This is speculation on top of speculation on top of wishful thinking on top of political agendas. Just a cursory glance at this article reveals far too many unknown and unknowable variables for any even tentative conclusions.
Something is fishy about this guys science. ;-)
http://www.john-daly.com/
Note the photo of the mean sea level mark made in 1841 by Sir James Ross (look for a horizontal line). Note the sea level at low tide. The total range of tide is one meter in this part of the world, and this mark is very close to what would be the middle of this one meter range.
BTW, any one been to Venice lately? Seen the water lapping at the steps of the city? As is well known, Venice is subsiding and the same thing probably happened to the old Roman fish farms, as an earlier poster noted. Of course, this fact has been so well known for such a long time that it could not be hijacked by the enviro-brownshirts.
The global warming enthusiasts and their fellow travelers live in a fact-free fantasy land. Whatever 'facts' they have about this or other issues, they make up.
OK..The world population is around 7 billion. What if we had had no industrial revolution? What if we had maintained the Roman way of life? Can you imagine 7 billion people cutting down trees and burning them to prepare their food, pottery and so on everyday? Can you imagine 7 billion people eliminating into the rivers?
Can you imagine the amount of food in form of game that would be needed to feed all these people?
He then analysed how land elevations changed along the Italian coast due to both plate tectonics and the after-effects of the last ice age. In a paper to appear in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, he concludes that geological processes pushed the land up by 1.22 metres over last two millennia, which means that the global sea level rose by 13 centimetres.
This seems to me to be making an estimate to the nearest ton and then drawing a conclusion based on that estimate to the exact ounce.
"most likely the result of human activity."
Later in this article, it states that there is no proof to support the above. Of course, the 'greenies' have quit reading by then. Climate change is promordial. It's the 'why' part that always gets political, despite the admitted lack of proof.
How about sunspot activity and increased solar energy output, which has been measured over the last century as considerably higher than in the past?
Oh, but I forgot....you have an agenda to push. Don't let any scientific facts get in the way. ;)
Most likely? Hasn't this nimrod ever heard of the Little Ice Age, and the warmer period prior to that, that would have affected sea levels?
Its Bush's fault.
Some people go "postal", I tend to go "biblical" on people when I read things like this.
According to scriptures there will be a time when the climate gets hot enough to scorch a man, and the sea levels rise to frightening levels, but according to scriptures, it is because the sun grows brighter and hotter. Not because of any physical thing man is doing to the planet.
It could be that liberals are glomming onto an actual event and attempting to turn it to some political advantage, it could be pure junk science going on and nothing is really changing climate wise. If there is something actually going on, then one can reasonably assume, we may be entering that time foretold when the sun grows hotter.