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Valuing Maine’s Beaches:
Assets, Challenges, and Actions for Today and Tomorrow
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Concurrent Session II
Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
Recent Data on Global Sea-level Rise and Policy Implications
This presentation will note that satellite data fails to confirm the model predictions of climate sensitivity -- predictions that depend critically on dubious positive feedbacks. Under the circumstances, the attribution of sea level rise to what these models predict seems inappropriate. For many years, sea level rise has been selected as the poster child for climate alarm since most people do not find a warming of a few tenths of a degree to be particularly alarming. This, however, does not add to the credibility of the alarm. Sea level has probably been rising slightly since the end of the last glaciation; this hardly implicates man's carbon dioxide emissions; nor does the existence of climate change itself. Climate is always changing.
Last updated on April 28, 2009
