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marked50

(1,366 posts)
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 08:42 PM Mar 2012

Rising Seas

Today there was a report issued by a couple of scientific sources about rising sea level effects on US coastal areas. One report on this was from the Los Angeles Times.

NBC Nightly News had a segment on this and near the end of the report they had a "climate change skeptic" from the Cato Institute to refute any significant contribution from climate change. This was Patrick Michaels and he claimed that the more significant cause of rising sea levels along coastal areas was due to sinking land masses.

If this was true, then could we attribute that the sinking land is due to our sucking all the gas and oil out from under it? So, our fossil fuel burning AND extraction is responsible for sea level rise? I think the Cato folks need to think this thing through......(Kudos to my wife for pointing this out)

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Rising Seas (Original Post) marked50 Mar 2012 OP
"cause of rising sea levels along coastal areas was due to sinking land masses. " tabatha Mar 2012 #1

tabatha

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1. "cause of rising sea levels along coastal areas was due to sinking land masses. "
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 09:31 PM
Mar 2012


One cannot make this up.
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