Originally Posted by
N2264J
The average doesn't apply here. Sea level came up quick until about 6 - 8 thousand years ago then slowed down to a trickle. The last 1,500 years or so it's been relatively stable but it's rising again.
Millions of people now live along the coasts all over the world. If the oceans do rise 4 to 6 feet in the next 90 years, that's a lot of real estate under water. The Pentagon is advising that those people represent a threat to US interests when they start migrating inland all over the planet.
All right, the average doesn't matter--the point is that humans lived like a pack of wild dogs 15,000 years ago (plus obsidian tools and lots of leather). We've prospered in the years since despite 100+ meters of rising sea level.
The 20th century sea level rise was about 15-20 cm. That's faster than recent parts of this interglacial period and slower than other parts. I don't see the crisis.
Are the models projecting bigger sea level rises based on melting glaciers? They've retracted a lot of peer reviewed projections on glacier melt lately.
The model projections have been so consistently wrong on temp, sea ice, etc.--why should we believe the sea level projections?
It's the Pentagon's job to see everything as a threat to US interests--let them fight wars and take the rest of their stuff with a grain of salt.
WW