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To: Arthur Radley who wrote (70649)	3/30/2009 7:54:13 PM
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Do you think that by repeating your baseless, incoherent rabble it somehow makes it all factual & rational? BTW, that's a rhetorical question. We already know LWE's operate under that supposition.

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (70649)	3/31/2009 4:40:25 AM
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Despite fluctuations down as well as up, "the sea is not rising," he says. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm Apocalypse Not Andrew Stuttaford The Corner Christopher Booker in the Sunday Telegraph: <<< If one thing more than any other is used to justify proposals that the world must spend tens of trillions of dollars on combating global warming, it is the belief that we face a disastrous rise in sea levels. The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps will melt, we are told, warming oceans will expand, and the result will be catastrophe. Although the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only predicts a sea level rise of 59cm (17 inches) by 2100, Al Gore in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth went much further, talking of 20 feet, and showing computer graphics of cities such as Shanghai and San Francisco half under water. We all know the graphic showing central London in similar plight. As for tiny island nations such as the Maldives and Tuvalu, as Prince Charles likes to tell us and the Archbishop of Canterbury was again parroting last week, they are due to vanish. But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story. Despite fluctuations down as well as up, "the sea is not rising," he says. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm". And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about . . . >>> The whole thing is very well reading, but is it "case closed"? No, of course not. But it's yet another reminder that an environmentalism of doubt remains a far better approach to dealing with the problem of man-made global warming (if there is indeed such a problem) than repackaging an ancient fear and calling it science. corner.nationalreview.com