“It’s not just temperature rises that tell us the world is warming,” he said. “We also have physical changes like the fact that sea levels have risen around five inches since 1972, the Arctic icecap has declined by 40% and snow cover in the northern hemisphere has declined.”
Five inches? Prove it! As for the arctic sea ice,
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomaly.arctic.png
It’s just a little low. Interesting that the average arctic ice drops just a little as global temperatures fell from 2001 until now. But the drop is nowhere near 40%!
A different view:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.area.arctic.png
The fluctuations, for you Warmists lurking here, are called “seasons”.
So, for example, those people in the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], choose Hong Kong, which has six tide gauges, and they choose the record of one, which gives 2.3 mm per year rise of sea level. Every geologist knows that that is a subsiding area. It’s the compaction of sediment; it is the only record which you shouldn’t use. And if that figure is correct, then Holland would not be subsiding, it would be uplifting. And that is just ridiculous. Not even ignorance could be responsible for a thing like that. So tide gauges, you have to treat very, very carefully.
