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The Facts On Sea Levels

November 4 2009



Just like the small island nation of Maldives where, last month, the
president conducted a cabinet meeting underwater to remind the world that
his country would be rendered uninhabitable by rising sea levels. Kitted out
in full scuba-diving outfits, Mohamed Nasheed and his ministers sat at a
table underwater off the coast of the capital of Male.



As planned, the president's stunt made headlines across the globe.



Send us money - and lots of it - is his message.



The media love stunts.

They are so easy to report.



Sadly, the media is not inquisitive enough to report those who question the
circus acts of climate change.



A week after the Maldives underwater show, Nils-Axel Morner - a leading
world authority on sea levels - wrote an open letter to the president
telling him that his stunt was "not founded in observational facts and true
scientific judgments".



Morner is a former professor who headed the department of paleogeophysics
and geodynamics at Stockholm University and past president (1999-2003) of
the International Union for Quaternary Research commission on sea level
changes and coastal evolution. INQUA was founded in 1928 by scientists who
aimed to improve the understanding of environmental change during the
glacial ages through interdisciplinary research.



In other words, the Swedish professor has gravitas when it comes to sea
levels.



Alas his letter did not make headlines. That is a shame.



Morner says there is "no rational basis" for the hysterical claims that the
people of Maldives - or the rest of the world - are threatened by rising sea
levels. And he sets out some facts.



Fact number 1:

During the past 2000 years, sea levels have fluctuated with 5 peaks reaching
0.6m to 1.2m above present sea level.



Fact number 2:

From 1790 to 1970 sea levels were about 20cm higher than today.



Fact number 3:

In the 1970s, the sea level fell by about 20cm to its present level.



Fact number 4:

Sea levels have remained constant for the past 30 years "implying that there
are no traces of any alarming ongoing sea level rise".



Fact number 5 (and I am paraphrasing here): The notion presented by the
President of the Maldives that his country will be flooded is bunkum.



Yet, last week a federal parliamentary report told Australians to make plans
to evacuate if we live on the coast.



Warning that the "time to act is now", the bipartisan report said the
711,000 addresses within 3km of the Australian coast - and less than 6m
above sea level - face threats from rising sea levels. The report called for
an inquiry by the Productivity Commission to examine the need for bans on
homes within these areas.



Viewers of the 7pm News on ABC1 were told by a Richard Branson lookalike -
complete with longish wavy grey hair, beard and crisp white shirt - that the
township of Byron Bay would be completely flooded by rising sea levels.

His expertise?

He is a resident of Byron Bay!



http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/janetalbrechtsen/index.php/theaustralian/comments/s
eeing_through_hoax_of_the_century





Warmest Regards



Bon z0



"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."

Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville

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