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Posted on 07/17/2011 6:13:12 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Contradictory Studies
UN Climate Body Struggling to Pinpoint Rising Sea Levels
By Axel Bojanowski
Photo Gallery: How High Will Sea Levels Climb?
The United Nations' forecast of how quickly global sea levels will rise this century is vital in determining how much money might be needed to combat the phenomenon. But predictions by researchers vary wildly, and the attempt to find consensus has become fractious. Info
It is a number which will ultimately establish how billions in taxpayer money will be spent -- and it is one which is the subject of heated debate, both among politicians and scientists.
When the next report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is issued in two years, it will include a forecast for how high the world's oceans might rise by 2100. With 146 million people in the world currently living less than one meter above sea level, the forecast will be vital in determining how much money governments must spend on measures to protect people from the rising waters and to resettle those in the most acute danger.
Eighteen scientists from 10 countries are involved in the task, and their first step is to determine which of the myriad studies relating to climate change's effect on ocean levels to consider. In the end, they are to establish a possible range, with the maximum being the most decisive -- and most contested -- number. Even more challenging, the estimates currently differ by almost five meters (16.5 feet).
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LOL
Overpaid lefties with too much too much time on their hands ;-)
There will be no rest until the UN and similar front groups of global socialism are crushed into the dirt.
That's what it really is all about, isn't it?
Tell me again about those South Sea islands that “disappeared” because of rising sea levels.
AFAIK, there is only so much water on Earth. If that’s true, how can sea level change? Maybe the land is sinking?
If the oceans were rising, wouldn’t the St. Lawrence run backwards ?
Ping
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Data up until 1993, based on coastal measurements, show an annual rise of 1.7 millimeters.
Since then, however, satellite measurements have indicated a rise of three millimeters per year.
But does that mean that water levels are rising faster? Not necessarily.
“I find it unlikely that sea level started to accelerate just at the time we started to measure it with satellites,” says Simon Holgate, a sea level researcher with the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool.
He says that the simple change in measuring technique could account for the change.
As a result, researchers don’t agree on what to expect. Whereas James Hansen expects a five meter rise, his colleague Simon Holgate says that “I think that even in the highest emission scenario we won’t exceed a global average of one meter of sea level rise by 2100.”
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Someone should propose they dredge the ocean.
There are a few sinking islands that are used as talking points. Odd how the GW guys forget to mention that more than 600 new islands have been recently discovered.
Global warming claims seem to rarely, if ever, match reality. Go back to the 2005 IPCC report about the 50 million refugees caused by rising see levels in 2010. Also read that the locations they predicted not only didn’t have a refugee problem, the population grew.
———If the oceans were rising, wouldn’t the St. Lawrence run backwards ?———
That would mean Lake Michigan would rise and the narrow link to the Chicago River would be inundated and then the flow in the Mississippi would increase up to the point where it met the increased level coming northward from New Orleans where it would destroy Cairo.
It’s funny, I’ve seen brainwashed “warmers” claim that ocean levels have raised at specific geographical areas of the globe.
Evidently they’ve never heard about gravity.
Just a few years back, Great Lakes freighters were short-loading because the Lakes were “down.”
And the real experts on measuring sea levels say that there has been NO “rise in sea level”. But, as usual, the “amateur” scientists (usually physicists) working in a field outside their fundamental expertise believe their math models more than the actual measurements.
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. DEFUND UNaccountable bureaucracies/bureaucrats (more socialism).
The tide marks on the dock in Deltaville, VA, which is connected to the oceans of the world through the Chesapeake Bay, are in the same places as they were in 1966. No change. Hence no sea level rise in 45 years.
“With 146 million people in the world currently living less than one meter above sea level...”
Wow, I wonder what they do about waves, and tides! /sarc
“how much money governments must spend on measures to protect people from the rising waters and to resettle those in the most acute danger. “
They think they have problems with the Palestinians? Wait until they try to MOVE those in need of resettling and then finding a place to put them.
Let’s start with Venice. Then we could move the UN Headquarters out of Manhattan. Say, to someplace like Siberia, far from the “rising” seas, where they no longer have to worry about “Global Warming”
Hey, good idea! The UN will finally acknowledge God and His control over the Earth when, after a winter or two in Siberia, the UN General Assembly opens each daily session with prayer FOR Global Warming! “Please dear God, let it warm above zero today!”
(In the interest of Truth and Full Disclosure, the UN headquarters is about 11 meters above sea level, but one can’t be too careful!)
The water level hasn’t changed at my end of the tub How bout
you?
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