Posted on 08/22/2013 2:08:01 PM PDT by naturalman1975
THE world's sea levels fell in 2011 and it's all Australia's doing.
New US research shows Australia's dry soil and mountainous coastline soaked up heavy rainfall in 2010 and 2011 and stopped it from flowing back into the ocean.
That effectively halted a longterm trend of rising sea levels which have been caused by higher temperatures and melting ice sheets.
"No other continent has this combination of atmospheric set-up and topography," scientist John Fasullo, who worked on the study, said in a statement.
"Only in Australia could the atmosphere carry such heavy tropical rains to such a large area, only to have those rains fail to make their way to the ocean."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Australia is largely desert - if we're going to get more rain from climate change, I'm thinking of buying the most gas-guzzling carbon-dioxide producing vehicle I can next week.
It’s a miracle!
Well I guess that settles it then. Australia will have to be outlawed by the EPA, and after the EIS is approved, demolished to make room for the glorious utopia the libs have planned for us.
Excuse no. 3,126 for the failure of the seas to keep rising.
Australia, saving the world’s coastlines from global warming caused inundation.
For the record I had my R&R in Australia in 1972 and it was absolutely the best time I ever had with the friendliest people and big big cans of Fosters.
Oh crap! Hurry, ban Australia.
True dat.
Imagine if the outback got enough rain to look like our great plains or midwest.
The climate models lack feedback mechanisms.
They are constantly discovering new ones.
This is like a financial report from some company saying “excluding a one time charge off of $10 billion, we made a $200 million profit this quarter.”
It’s probably all due to the toilets flushing backwards.
Or, remember that seismic/tectonic activity maybe also be gradually affecting plates in that area.. Things go up. And things go down, sometimes over wide geographical areas.. That applies to seabeds as well, considering the globe is mostly covered by water to start with
“Excuse no. 3,126 for the failure of the seas to keep rising.”
And easily beats out the aliens from “Battle Los Angeles” taking the sea water as the most ridiculous excuse of them all.
“For the record I had my R&R in Australia in 1972 and it was absolutely the best time I ever had with the friendliest people and big big cans of Fosters.”
A friend of mine did a three year stint in Sydney when he worked for Kimberly-Clark. He almost didn’t come back. He said only one out of three people his company sent there return to the USA; the rest find a way to become Australian.
It's probably still showing on www.PBS.org.
What I’d like to see is absolute proof of rising sea level.
There are islands in the south pacific that would have been gone years ago if the oceans were rising at the rates they claimed.
What horseshit.
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