RE: Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet

["Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund () medline com>]

Here is a simple question to answer while you are at it.  Once the arctic ice and glaciers melt, what will cause the 
ocean levels to continue to rise at this incredible rate?  The total estimate for sea level rise would be 70 meters if 
absolutely all ice on the face of the Earth melted.  A radical change no doubt but it will not continue forever.

The Earth right now is about as warm as it was during the previous interglacial period which was about 125,000 years 
ago.  At that time sea level was actually 4 METERS HIGHER THAN IT IS RIGHT NOW.  So we know that before humans were 
widespread on Earth, sea level was 4 METERS higher than it is right now.  I guess this goes against the "worse than it 
has ever been" kind of arguments".

Steven Naslund
Chicago IL



> Pretty hard to accept 198 inches since NASA's own data shows no more than 250mm or 9.4 inches since 1888.  You would 
> have to assume there are no balancing factors.  If the earth gets warmer then there >is also more evaporation of the 
> oceans which causes more rainfall which helps moderate temperature and moves oceanic water inland.  I agree the 
> climate is getting warmer but doubt that trend continues >forever.  History says it won't.  Common sense says that in 
> any closed system, things do not change exponentially forever.  I really do need an answer to the question of why in 
> certain years ocean >levels were actually lower than the year before like 2010.  I honestly want to know why that 
> happens.
>
> Steven Naslund
> Chicago IL