Attempts to stem sea level rises by reducing CO2 levels in order to "combat" global warming are a complete waste of time says a new report by two of the world's leading oceanographic scientists.
Over the last 150 years, average global sea levels have risen by around 1.8 mm per annum - a continuation of the melting of the ice sheets which began 17,000 years ago. Satellite measurements (which began in 1992) put the rate higher - at 3mm per year. But there is no evidence whatsoever to support the doomsday claims made by Al Gore in 2006 that sea levels will rise by 20 feet by the end of the century, nor even the more modest prediction by James Hansen that they will rise by 5 metres.
Such modest rises, argue oceanographer Willem P de Lange and marine geologist Bob Carter in their report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, are far better dealt with by adaptation than by costly, ineffectual schemes to decarbonise the global economy.
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5 comments:
Melting sea ice DOES NOT raise sea levels. It is physically impossible. Melting sheet ice that covers land in Greenland or the land portion of Antarctica is a different matter but it is statistically insignificant.
hahahaha, you idiots on the Eastern Shore are ground zero to rising seas. Keep telling yourselves you won't be effected and buy yourselves a big boat or build and ark.
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Before you thump your chest and call someone an idiot maybe you should learn the difference between effected and affected. You also build 'AN' ark.
11:54. That is an epic smack down. Kudos!
Ice is less dense than water, that's why it floats at equilibrium.Melt the ice, and the level stays the same.
Go ahead; try it!
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