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How Do You Make Sea Level Rise When and Where It Doesn’t? December 9, 2017 By E. Calvin Beisner Cornwall Alliance
Atmospheric temperature is rising at less than half the rate predicted by the computer models. Even the predicted rate isn’t particularly disturbing so far as its effects on ecosystems or human wellbeing are concerned. That’s because, as the models predict, most of the increase is toward the poles, in winter, at night, little toward the equator, in summer, in daytime. I.e., it serves mostly to raise the coldest temperatures and does little to the warmest temperatures. The main results are lengthened growing seasons, expanded arable land, better crop yields, more food for people and animals, and fewer deaths from cold snaps. So what’s an alarmist, a provocateur for big government, a devotee of replacing the global economic order (largely free trade) with a more socialist/centrally planned world order, a lover of avian toasters (aka concentrated solar plants) and Cuisinarts of the sky (wind turbines) to do? Gotta give people some excuse for surrendering their liberty and prosperity! So you make something up. It’s the fear that such global warming as does occur (because … mostly toward the poles, in winter, at night, where all that ice is and where an increase in temperature from -25F to -20F won’t melt it anyway) will cause acceleration in the long-term rate of sea-level rise, swamping coastal cities that house hundreds of millions of people. The truth is that sea level has been rising ever since the Ice Age—over the last century at an average rate of about 1–2 mm per year (4–8 inches per century). Indeed:
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