Ever heard of Nils-Axel Mörner?Follow

I had no idea there's any such entity as a "sea level specialist". That seems like a pretty narrow field.

Beats me. Although, and I fully admit that one doesn't prove/disprove the other, I have to wonder at the credentials of a guy who endorses water dowsing This is the sort of thing that deserves a cite on the part of Mr. Booker.

Meh.

The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ran a piece back in May 2008 saying that overall sea levels may actually decrease slightly due to tectonic shifts which are deepening the world's oceans. However, it's only be a very slight amount and, if there's an ice melt-off which adds significant water to the oceans, then it would more than mitigate the deepening factor.

The May 2007 journal Global Change Biology has a piece tracking rising sea levels along the Florida coast. The Sept 2007 edition of Diversity & Distributions has a study about global salt marshes and the impact of rising sea levels on them. The CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research Center in Australia seems pretty convinced, using satellite data, that sea levels are rising at an increasing rate down there. They blame it on a variety of causes from natural fluctuations to land-based glacial melt-off.

That's about as much work as I feel like doing. The ones who always "question" it are never satisfied by scientific studies anyway when the dogma of "Nuh-uh, it ain't so!" will suffice. I'm actually going to bow out of this thread until someone posts an actual scientific study with some data worth responding to.

Edited, Mar 30th 2009 6:03pm by Jophiel

There is some credence to the "ballast" argument - that the sea levels won't rise significantly because the ocean is heavier than the land and the sea will just deepen to accommodate the water, squishing the continental plates upward like a stress toy.

Unfortunately, no one with scientific equipment was around to measure sea levels the last time this happened, so all we have to go on is the evidence. And the evidence is that as glaciers melt sea levels rise, period. As glaciers form, sea levels drop, period.

There ya go. Sea Level Specialist = Surfer.

I worked with well drilling companies, oh as recently as maybe 6 years ago that still used dowsers. Course it was in Maine.

Anna, PI STILL fails to offer up a decent bagel OR cup of coffee. Musta been the heyday of The County economic boom if they had a Bonanza.

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I don't believe it.

No, I don't believe it because the ones making the claims have failed to prove them beyond random chance. Multiple experiments have been done and you'd have as much chance of finding water with a stick as you would by throwing darts while blindfolded. It has nothing to do with science "explaining all" and everything to do with dowsing experiments proving nothing.

Jophiel said :


What. Like the reurrection and the virgin birth and stuff??

Well you are basing your claim on a scientific study and validating the study with a scientific perspective. It must be circular logic.

Ummm. I wasn't defending anything as it happens. Just making conversation....

Not to keep anyone from taking the long view, but I'm really more concerned about the "killing ourselves" part than simply whether or not this ball o' minerals continues spinning.

And what good is a floating rock sphere if peeps are all dead and gone. We just need to keep the planet habitable until we can get our human seed properly sowed throughout space...and beyond!

Yeah, but in the mean time the point is valid.