Last week I posted an article saying that, contrary to what the mainstream media may tell you, sea levels declined in 2016 and 2017. I received many snotty comments about that article, telling me that sea levels on average have been rising (presumably due to human activity), and accusing me of not looking at the bigger picture.
So okay, let’s look at that bigger picture. Sea levels have been rising for 10,000 years. Did humans cause all of that sea-level rise? I think not.
Sea levels have been rising for 10,000 years
By Robert Felix
During the last ice age almost all of Canada, along with parts of Europe and Asia, were buried beneath one to two miles of ice. At the same time, sea levels stood 350 to 400 feet lower than today.
Sea levels were so low that the entire continental shelf, at least in eastern North America, was above water. Many states on the eastern seaboard were twice as big as today. New Jersey’s shoreline, for example, stood 60 to 100 miles east of its present location.
Same in the west.
The land between Alaska and Asia rose out of the sea like a bridge (or rather, the sea dropped away from the land), and the Bering Strait, which today is only 18 stories deep at its deepest point, was above water. Our ancestors could have walked to Siberia. (The word bridge is misleading, because the land connection between Alaska and Siberia was almost as wide as Alaska itself.)
Why were sea levels so low? Because that’s where the water came from to create those huge ice sheets. Literally millions of cubic miles of water had turned to ice.
Then, about 10,000 years ago, the ice began to melt and sea levels began to rise.
Here’s a sea-level graph from Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever.
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Rising sea levels have been the norm
If you run the numbers (see below), you’ll find that sea levels have been rising an average of .42 to .48 inches (just under half-an-inch) per year for the past 10,000 years. Rising sea levels have been the norm, in other words, for 10,000 years.
And that brings us to today. What are sea levels doing right now?
Sea levels now rising slower than normal
According to NASA, sea levels are rising 3.4 mm (about 1/8th of an inch) per year. That’s about the thickness of a dime and a nickel stacked on top of one another. Not the diameter of the coins, but the thickness, In other words, sea levels are rising slower than normal.
Sea levels declined in 2010, 2011, 2016 and 2017
Yes, no matter how assiduously the media tries to ignore it, sea levels actually declined in four of the last eight years. Not much, maybe, but NASA’s own graphs show that it is true.
Where is the water going?
It’s being locked up on land as snow and ice. That’s how ice ages begin.
If we keep getting record snowfall as we have during the past few years, sea levels will begin falling and won’t begin rising again until the end of the next ice age.
This talk of unprecedented rising sea levels and catastrophic global warming is complete nonsense. It just simply is not true.
It’s not rocket science. Try it yourself. Multiply 400 by 12 and you get 4,800. That’s how many inches in 400 feet (how far sea levels have risen in the past 10,000 years). Now divide 4,800 by 10,000, and you get .48, just under ½ inch.
Just under half-an-inch. That’s how much sea levels have been rising on average per year for the past 10,000 years.
Today, sea levels are rising only 1/8 of an inch per year, LESS than normal.
And we’re supposed to throw billions, if not trillions, of dollars at it? We’re supposed to destroy our economies over a non-issue?
Robert Felix is author of Not by Fire but by Ice, in which he maintains that the next ice age could begin any day.