Falling Sea Level Upsets Theory of Global Warming
By Mark Chipperfield in Tuvalu and David Harrison in London
Article from The Telegraph
6 August 2000
In the early 1990s, scientists forecast that the coral atoll of nine islands - which is only 12ft above sea level at its highest point - would vanish within decades because the sea was rising by up to 1.5in a year. However, a new study has found that sea levels have since fallen by nearly 2.5in and experts at Tuvalu's Meteorological Service in Funafuti, the islands' administrative centre, said this meant they would survive for another 100 years.
They said similar sea level falls had been recorded in Nauru and the Solomon Islands, which were also considered to be under threat. The release of the data from Tuvalu, formerly part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, will renew scientific debate about climate change and its impact on ocean levels. The island's scientists admitted they were surprised and "a little embarrassed" by the change, which they blame on unusual weather conditions caused by El Nino in 1997.
Hilia Vavae, the Metereological Service's director, said: "This is certainly a bit of a shock for us because we have been experiencing the effect of rising oceans for a long time." Although their country has been saved from imminent engulfment, not all islanders are happy about the change in Tuvalu's fortunes. Residents who once worried about their homes being flooded are now complaining that the lower tides are disrupting their fishing expeditions, making it difficult to moor their boats and navigate low-lying reefs.
All the hype about human caused climate change is disinformation to force you into the One World Order where you will be living in a smaller house or yurt, have fewer children, drive a smaller car and burn oil forever.
They want to keep us on this planet as energy slaves using false propaganda. Sea levels in Cook Inlet, Kodiak have been dropping 3-feet in 100 years--this according to NOAA's actual tide measurement stations. Below is another article on lower sea levels.
Oceans to
fall over thousands of years not rise.
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO
(Reuters) - Sea levels are set to fall over millions of years, making the
current rise blamed on climate change a brief interruption of an ancient
geological trend, scientists said on Thursday.
They said oceans were getting
deeper and sea levels had fallen by about "The ocean floor has got on average older and gone down and so the sea level has also fallen," said Bernhard Steinberger at the Geological Survey of Norway, one of five authors of a report in the journal Science.
"The trend will continue," he told Reuters.
A computer model based on improved understanding of shifts of continent-sized tectonic plates in the earth's crust projects more deepening of the ocean floor and a further sea level decline of
If sea levels were to fall that much now, Russia would be connected to
The study aids understanding of sea levels by showing that geology has played a big role alongside ice ages, which can suck vast amounts of water from the oceans onto land.
DOWN NOT UP
"If we humans still exist in 10, 20 or 50 million years, irrespective of how ice caps are waxing and waning, the long term ... is that sea level will drop, not rise," said lead author Dietmar Muller of the University of Sydney.
Over time, Muller told Science in a podcast interview there would be fewer mid-ocean ridges and a shift to more deep plains in the oceans as continents shifted. The
Still, the projected rate of fall works out at
"Compared to what is expected due to climate change, the fall is negligible," said Steinberger. Cities from
Rising temperatures raise sea levels because water in the oceans expands as it warms, and many glaciers are melting into the seas.
The study challenges past belief that sea levels might have been only
It said that the
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(Editing by Andrew Roche
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