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From: ‘theaustralian.com.au’
ONE of Australia’s foremost experts on the relationship between climate change and sea levels has written a peer-reviewed paper concluding that rises in sea levels are “decelerating”.
The analysis, by NSW principal coastal specialist Phil Watson, calls into question one of the key criteria for large-scale inundation around the Australian coast by 2100 — the assumption of an accelerating rise in sea levels because of climate change.
Based on century-long tide gauge records at Fremantle, Western Australia (from 1897 to present), Auckland Harbour in New Zealand (1903 to present), Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour (1914 to present) and Pilot Station at Newcastle (1925 to present), the analysis finds there was a “consistent trend of weak deceleration” from 1940 to 2000.
Mr Watson’s findings, published in the Journal of Coastal Research this year and now attracting broader attention, supports a similar analysis of long-term tide gauges in the US earlier this year. Both raise questions about the CSIRO‘s sea-level predictions.
Again more conflicting science to question the “settled science”.
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Facinating article. One can only hope (yes I believe in the tooth fairy too) that our current government “the science is in!” mob will take note of this info!
I noted also a 2009 article on the subject which is worth re-reading:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/sinking_islands_or_stinking_is.html