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Does Four Inches Of Ocean Rise Attributed To Global Warming Make A DifferenceDoes Four Inches Of Ocean Rise Attributed To Global Warming Make A Difference
Four inches means nothing
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Patrick J. Michaels, an environmental sciences professor at the University of Virginia, and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of a new book Meltdown - The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicans, and the Media, dismissed the idea that "global warming" induced rising sea levels will produce a catastrophe.
"The best estimate for sea level rise for the next half century is about four inches ...The recent tsunami was 40 feet. Four inches means nothing to 40 feet," Michaels said.
Noting that past tsunamis have been as high as 120 feet, Michaels said any comparison between a potential four-inch rise of sea level and a tsunami is misguided.
"It is the difference between your index finger and a ten-story building," he said.
Michaels also said that sea levels in Asia, where the tsunami struck, have actually been declining.
"Satellite data published in 2001 in Science magazine ... show that the region where the tsunamis were most devastating has, in general, experienced a recent decline in sea level," Michaels said.
"Additionally, the long-term record of sea level changes for Bombay (India) was published by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1995. It shows a net decline in sea level in the last 50 years," he added.
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