Mailbag 2 - Hurricanes, atolls and coral

Happy New Year to all my subscribers!

This addresses a response to my video "Climate Change -- Hurricanes, atolls and corals," which, on investigation, revealed a major error by a news agency and a TV network. The moral of the story is that sticking the label "Global Warming" onto anything that moves is not going to help public understanding of climate science.

SOURCES:

"Rising Water threatens Panama islands" -- Al Jazeera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4m_TxYTucc

"Rising sea drives Panama islanders to mainland"
by Sean Mattson, Reuters July 12, 2010
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66B0PL20100712

Map of Caribbean tectonics from:
"Wide Plate Margin Deformation, Southern Central America and Northwestern South America"
R. Trenkamp et al.
http://estrella.geol.sc.edu/~agl/CASA.htm

Paper showing influence of subsidence on tidal guages:
"Changing coastal levels of South America and the Caribbean region from tide-gauge records"
- D.G. Aubreya et al, 1988

Map showing isostatic uplift of Britain:
http://www.neccap.org/NE%20Adapt/Climate/futureClimate/images/ratesofisostati...

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[mrdaym]

What should people like me, who are too suspicious to take you for your word, but too lazy to actually read the scientific papers, do?

[potholer54]

@mrdaym = who are too suspicious to take you for your word, but too lazy to actually read the scientific papers, do? = First, not taking my word for it doesn't mean you're suspicious, it means you are healthily skeptical. I expect people to check my sources, which is why I list them all. I make it as easy as I possibly can, by giving titles, names, dates, publications and URLs. But if clicking a mouse is too hard, you can follow the science by reading reputable science magazines.

[soyqueen01]

I love you potholer!

[scottpastry]

I think its high time a new youtube award was introduced......

"The Golden Monocle"

The inaugural winner..... Potholer!!

[TheRealArchAngel]

"That worldwide "20 foot mark" is like the 300 million one on mountains"

as in they are from plate tectonics driving them 20 feet above current sea level

remember the creationist thinks the custation fossils and watermarks and ocean sediments on mountains,also put up there from plate tectonics, "proves" Noah's flood

Just as Ridiculous to think a 20 foot water mark prove "AGW Armageddon" flooding could happen that high unless we raise taxes on oil/gas,use 1 sheet tp,and use mercury filled cfcs

[TheRealArchAngel]

"For water waves (blah,blah,blah)"

Ah but how is it relative to only 1% of the worlds water being fresh water, the majority of it being locked in the Glaciers and put their by the evaporation/precipitation cycle and therefore melting and rebuilding of glacier ice is ongoiing and een if there was a full melt down (unlikely) 1% of 300 million trillion tons of water couldn't raise the oceans 3feet let alone Al Gore's "20 feet"

That worldwide "20 foot mark" is like the 300 million one on mountains

[TheRealArchAngel]

"post basic scientific facts in order to demonstrate my amazing knowledge, hoping everyone will ignore the giant non sequitor to my conclusion that AGW isn't real"

Never said Antropological Global Warthing Hypothesis isn't real...said it isn't verified and tested and falsified yet and is only a consensus of opinion hypothesis that still needs years of data collection to verify,test,and falsify..which is why the consensus was needed to ask governments for funding to do "impact stuidies"

[mrdaym]

@potholer54 I got several suggestions for proper science magazines now which I'm going to look up that will sum up the conclusions for a layman like me. I humbly thank you for taking out the time to give me a reply.