Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Climate Change
Question: Approximately how many years intervened between these photographs of the Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, one of the world’s northernmost inhabited areas?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: The melting of the ice caps surrounding the Earth’s poles is in the process of causing major sea-level rise, removing formerly significant masses of land from the planet.
Craig,
Here’s the problem with your latest post. As with many of your pronouncements you claim want you want to be true, what you believe should be true, as established fact.
Reality, is very different ! The volume of ocean content is incredibly difficult to measure. Even more difficult is coastline tidal measurement. Coastline are continually changing for mysterious reasons. Over the last few centuries coast lines have increased and decreased without any reference to climate change.
Pacific islands have appeared, disappeared, increased and decreased irregardless of climate change.
None of these observations is useful proving or disproving the effect of arctic ice melt on increasing or decreasing the land surface of the planet.
In fact the best and most reliable (although still circumspect) calculations provide evidence of increases in land elevation not decrease.
I realize this sounds illogical, but on the southern cost of Australia, there are areas of pasture land where only 80 years ago there were coastal fishing ports. ( old stranded ships miles inland are a tourist attractions) While the UK has lost some land through oceanic erosion on one side of the country, on the other are whole towns where former docks and harbour towns exist 30-40 miles from the sea !
Alaska and Western Canada’s coastlines have increased significantly over the last 50 years.
This subject needs far more objective research before any loss of land could be claimed with confidence.