mbender
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I know it's a "right wing" website and I may take issue with a lot of other pieces in it, but someone just sent me a link to this,
Worried About Floods Due to Rising Sea Level? Forget It: Not Happening
and the mathematics seems pretty unassailable to me.
Is there something wrong, missing, or "more to the story"?
Something always seemed off/alarmist about the height of sea-level rise predictions/threat (the earth is a pretty big place), but I never took the (small) effort to "do the math". Now I'm a bit embarrassed that I didn't, and thus don't feel fully justified in criticizing others, especially reporters, for not doing the same. (Or having it done for them.)
I still believe there is great value in not polluting and heating up the atmosphere (and even preserving glaciers, etc.), but preventing sea-level rise is likely no longer one of them!
Worried About Floods Due to Rising Sea Level? Forget It: Not Happening
and the mathematics seems pretty unassailable to me.
Is there something wrong, missing, or "more to the story"?
Something always seemed off/alarmist about the height of sea-level rise predictions/threat (the earth is a pretty big place), but I never took the (small) effort to "do the math". Now I'm a bit embarrassed that I didn't, and thus don't feel fully justified in criticizing others, especially reporters, for not doing the same. (Or having it done for them.)
I still believe there is great value in not polluting and heating up the atmosphere (and even preserving glaciers, etc.), but preventing sea-level rise is likely no longer one of them!