Alarmists Find New Excuse: Sea Levels Aren’t Rising Because ‘Ocean Bottom Deformation’

Breitbart ^ | January 8, 2018 | by JAMES DELINGPOLE

[Swordmaker]

Scientists in the Netherlands have found a new excuse as to why sea levels are stubbornly refusing to rise in line with Al Gore’s doomsday predictions: “ocean bottom deformation.”

Apparently, they claim in a study by Thomas Frederikse et al, the weight of the extra water caused by all those melting glaciers and icecaps is so great that it is causing the sea bed to sink.

Their paper – titled ‘Ocean Bottom Deformation Due To Present-Day Mass Redistribution and Its Impact on Sea Level Observations’ – is published in Geophysical Research Letters.Here is the abstract:

[Swordmaker]

Swordmaker's alternative hypothesis to explain the missing water:

Alternative possibility: somebody pulled that gigantic rubber plug at the bottom of the Mindanao Deep and all that excess water from melting glaciers is draining into the hollow earth. . . right?

Well, it's as good a hypothesis as the sea bed is sinking, don't you think?

To prove it, all we've got to do is find that humongous ball chain connected to that plug. We could apply for a grant and give ourselves really nice incomes while we search. I think there are some good cruise ships we could use as research platforms. I think a time frame of about 20 years for our investigation sounds about right, don't you?

[grey_whiskers]

Don’t forget the bikinis for the research assistants!

[fhayek]

And I bet you a bottle of good bourbon that the cause of this “deformation”, is global warming.

[TChad]

Somebody stole our water?

[skr]

Extra water? From the glaciers that have been here all along?

[Trillian]

Their money must be drying up.

[\/\/ayne]

Is that anything like Metaphoric Deformation?

[Swordmaker]

SHHHHHH! you found it. . . but we don't tell anyone. We have to get our GRANT first!

[TChris]

Somebody stole our water?

And its somebody from UNDER the ocean!!

[Swordmaker]

And I bet you a bottle of good bourbon that the cause of this “deformation”, is global warming.

No bet. . . it's caused, according to them, by the weight of all the extra water added by the melting glaciers being added to the oceans!

[editor-surveyor]

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Sea levels ceased rising in the early ‘80s.

That is why NOAA switched their datum to satelites instead of land based Benchmarks, allowing them to manipulate the data.
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[Dogbert41]

I bet these guys teach at Yale.

[Myrddin]

Missing from the explanations is the "expando earth" explanation. The continuous accretion of particles from the sun and other sources that impact and remain results in a growing total mass. That mass requires increased surface area. Some of that is occurring via spreading in the mid-Atlantic. The net result is a larger planet and a sea level that isn't going anywhere. Sucks when the physical world refuses to play along with the fear mongering leftist agenda.

[rejoicing]

Of coooourse! Why didn't I think of that?? 😂😂😂😂

[Trillian]

[EagleUSA]

“...Somebody stole our water?...”

Martians??

[KTM rider]

PLEASE, no one tell the scientists where the water is really going (escaping in to space), they will have another man caused global warming meltdown

the more CO2 that is in the atmosphere, the slower it leaks out

the socialist useful idiot scientists wont realize it until its too late and the wars over water have already begun

[tet68]

If the sea bed is sinking and the land is not rising,
we are in big trouble.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Maybe our deep wells are sucking up all the oil and the sea bottoms are sinking as a result!
WE ALL GONNA DIE!

[the OlLine Rebel]

Duplicate of your own??

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