http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/08/22/22/24/aust-sucks-up-ocean-s-waters-study

New US research shows Australia's dry soil and mountainous coastline soaked up heavy rainfall in 2010 and 2011 and stopped it from flowing back into the ocean.

That effectively halted a longterm trend of rising sea levels which have been caused by higher temperatures and melting ice sheets.

"No other continent has this combination of atmospheric set-up and topography," scientist John Fasullo, who worked on the study, said in a statement.

"Only in Australia could the atmosphere carry such heavy tropical rains to such a large area, only to have those rains fail to make their way to the ocean."

The world's oceans have been rising in recent decades by around three millimetres every year.

This is partly because heat has caused water to expand, and partly because run-off from retreating glaciers and ice sheets has made its way into the oceans.

But for an 18-month period beginning in 2010, the oceans mysteriously dropped by about seven millimetres, more than offsetting the annual rise, the study says.

The US scientists say this was mainly caused by Australia's uniquely dry soil and land surface.

While some of the water evaporated in the desert sun, much of it sank into the dry, granular soil of the Western Plateau or filled the Lake Eyre basin in the east.




so the seas rise it is ACCC.  the seas drop it is OUR FAULT???

longweekend58

Articles like this proves my theory is that we don't really have the scientific technique or even the data required to draw any such conclusion or make such predictions.

My other theory is given we don't understand what is actually going on, you must be a complete dumb ar$e to think you can fix it.

Halted is the wrong word swagman, interrupted is better because it goes on as part of this climate phase.

But the long view is what counts and I'm convinced we have no influence on that.
Can we bring back the land bridge between the UK and Europe?

Swagman wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2013 at 10:35am:


Swagman

In the 60's they held hands around a tree and sang Kum ba yah which had about the same effect a merry-go-round tax will have.

True Colours wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2013 at 10:54am:


you die from cigarettes - sea level rise at 3mm per annum is gonna kill how many?

education has played a huge role in reducing smoking rates, cost less so. Its just easier to put stupid statistics up and draw tenuous conclusions from them. Addicts don't quit because of cost, they just redistribute funds from someplace else to sustain their addiction.

longweekend58 wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2013 at 9:49am:

Nice selective quoting.

More information from your link:

The world's oceans have been rising in recent decades by around three millimetres every year.
...
Since 2011, sea levels have been rising at a faster pace of about ten millimetres per year.

Global warming continues, and sea levels continue to rise

Now the big question for conservatives, how do conservatives want to protect coastal regions from ocean inundation?

By their forced green army planting catus along the beaches?

Swagman wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2013 at 10:35am:


Perhaps a totally different tax might fix the issue of falling sea levels?
Have to remember though that when the Carbon tax is scrapped, sea levels may well rise again anyway.
It's a fine line when saving the planet.
Perhaps Rudd might form another committee on the issue.