Stop the Presses! Sea Levels are Rising!

In today's alarm sounded by the glowarmists,* they try to raise concern that some of our historic sites could be swamped by rising sea levels. They say that the seas are going to rise about a meter, but they don't know how long it will take. Some say 50 years, others say 100 years, and still others say 150 years.

Sea level rise is "the thing that I'm most concerned about as a scientist," says Benjamin Santer, a climate physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

"We're going to get a meter and there's nothing we can do about it," said University of Victoria climatologist Andrew Weaver, a lead author of the February report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Paris. "It's going to happen no matter what - the question is when."

Why is Santer so concerned about it if there's nothing he can do about it. Perhaps he's just a worrier. Or, perhaps he just disagrees with Weaver. Anyway, if there is so much disagreement amongst all these experts, why should we be concerned about it?

Even John Christy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a scientist often quoted by global warming skeptics, said he figures the seas will rise at least 16 inches by the end of the century. But he tells people to prepare for a rise of about three feet just in case.

Williams says it's "not unreasonable at all" to expect that much in 100 years. "We've had a third of a meter in the last century."

In other words, the sea has been rising since way before you were born and since before most of your ancestors were born. But now the glowarmists want you to lose sleep over it.

Here's a simple test to determine if you should be concerned enough to give this more than passing interest. Is your home or other property that you own sitting less than one meter above the current sea level? If so, you should start worrying about rising sea levels within about 30 years. If not, don't waste your time or energy. Most likely you have more important things to worry about than helping to maintain the flow of research dollars to climate scientists.
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*global warming alarmist

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