Welcome to Gaia! ::

Why Oceans are not Rising

Ice which sits over oceans does not cause a change in sea level when it melts, because the water is already supporting its weight. The only way sea level can rise is when ice which was over land moves into the oceans.

Ice which is accumulating on land is lowering the sea level, because it is coming out of the oceans and not flowing back in.

The Public Version Vs. the Science Version.

Global warming propagandists have recently been saying that ocean levels are expected to rise 20 feet in the future. This claim is in blatant contradiction to measurements which show that oceans are only rising 0.4mm per year, which is less than 2 inches per century.

There are two positions propagandists take on every issue: One, there is the public impression. In this case, ice melting everywhere is supposed to tell the public that ocean levels are rising. Two, there is the technical rationalization. Here, the technical rationalization is based upon misrepresented science.

Antarctica Study.

Scientific studies show ice accumulating over land on Antarctica and Greenland. Propagandists state the opposite based upon misrepresentation of those studies. The full articles are not available on the internet, but there is enough information to evaluate the claims. The first study was published in Science on May 19 and June 24, 2005. Satellite radar was used to show thickening of ice over eastern Antarctica, with some thinning over western Antarctica, but a net increase, which means slight reducing effect upon ocean levels.

Nature: 19 May 2005

East Antarctica puts on weight.
Increased snowfall could slow sea-level rise.
Increased snowfall over a large area of Antarctica is thickening the ice sheet and slowing the rise in sea level caused by melting ice...

Greenland Study.

On October 20 and November 11, 2005 Science published a study showing the same thing on Greenland: satellite radar showed ice increasing on the interior of Greenland.

October 21, 2005

Greenland ice cap thickens slightly.
Satellite measurements show that snowfall has thickened Greenland's ice cap.

OSLO, Norway (Reuters) -- Greenland's ice cap has thickened slightly in recent years despite wide predictions of a thaw triggered by global warming, a team of scientists said on Thursday...


there is more on this site:http://www.nov55.com/oceans.html

Knola: if you are reading this, scroll down on that page and look, the source has sources from journals.

That is some greaaat news O:

I'm suprized they are thickening, since the global average tempature has risen.
But just because the ice has been thickening on land, the Arctic is still melting, causing many species forced to extinction. And without those species, the ecosystem STILL is screwed.

See, this is what I mean. Make up your mind! Are we going to die or not???????? God.

well, we are all going to die eventually, and the earth will die (explode? i dont know) we just dont know when, if we did, that would be creepy.

coooooool

of course i wouldnt be cool if i was alive when that happened............

Edit: It wouldnt be cool, not i wouldnt be cool....hehe, cuz I'll always be cool

Hmmm.... I am not sure if I agree with you 100% there. When the ice caps melt, sea level will rise almost 40 ft~ Or so say nearly every science team I have ever heard of~

Along with that, the snow could be caused by wamer temps. making water evaporate. Then, as the Water Vapor moves north, it becomes frozen and snows more. So... yeah... I don't really know what I was just trying to prove o_0

well, another problem with those articles is that they are 3 years old...i don't know about back then, but in those three years we have polluted ALOT more and the temperature chage of one degrees has happened pretty recently, maybe you were right in 2005, but maybe not in 2007-2008....

Of course we're going to die. We're trying to choose how. Are we going to die as contributors to global warming, or are we going to die trying to stop it?