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"The Sea Is Rising,
but Not Because
of Climate Change:
There is nothing
we can do about it,
except to build dikes
and sea walls
a little bit higher. "
By Fred Singer, PhD
Wall Street Journal
May 15, 2018
[Corrected version]
“ ... efforts to determine
what causes seas to rise
are marred by poor data
and disagreements
about methodology."
" ... by studying
a very short time interval,
it is possible to sidestep
most of the complications,
like “isostatic adjustment”
of the shoreline
(as continents rise after
the overlying ice has melted)
and “subsidence” of the shoreline
(as ground water and minerals
are extracted)."
“I chose to assess
the sea-level trend
from 1915-45, when a genuine,
independently confirmed warming
of approximately 0.5 degree Celsius
occurred."
"I therefore conclude
—contrary to the general wisdom
—that the temperature of sea water
has no direct effect on sea-level rise."
"That means neither does
the atmospheric content
of carbon dioxide."
“ ... there is also good data
showing sea levels are in fact
rising at a constant rate."
"The trend has been measured
by a network of tidal gauges,
many of which have been
collecting data for over a century."
“Melting of glaciers and ice sheets
adds water to the ocean and
causes sea levels to rise."
"(Recall though that the melting
of floating sea ice adds no water
to the oceans, and hence
does not affect the sea level.) "
"... the slow melting of Antarctic ice
at the periphery of the continent
may be the main cause
of current sea-level rise."
“Currently, sea-level rise
does not seem to depend on
ocean temperature,
and certainly not on CO2. "
"We can expect the sea
to continue rising
at about the present rate
for the foreseeable future."
"By 2100 the seas will rise
another 6 inches or so
—a far cry from Al Gore’s
alarming numbers."
"There is nothing we can do
about rising sea levels
in the meantime."
"We’d better build dikes
and sea walls
a little bit higher.”
Mr. Fred Singer, PhD
is a professor emeritus
is a professor emeritus
of environmental science
at the University of Virginia.
He founded the Science and
Environmental Policy Project
and the Nongovernmental International