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michaelangel on 03/07/2008

Did anyone actually READ the article?
Or do we have 5 second attention spans now?
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sea levels had fallen by about 170 meters (560 ft) since the Cretaceous period 80 million years ago when dinosaurs lived.
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Still, the projected rate of fall works out at 0.015 centimeters a century -- irrelevant when the U.N. Climate Panel estimates that seas will rise by 18-59 cms by 2100 because of global warming stoked by human use of fossil fuels.

"Compared to what is expected due to climate change, the fall is negligible," said Steinberger. Cities from Miami to Shanghai are threatened by rising seas that could also swamp low-lying island nations in the Pacific.

NZ is already taking pacific Island GW refugees.
Sea levels have gone up and down with various Ie ages.
To use this report to support GW denial is dishonest and devious. more …