Ajax wrote on Aug 30
th, 2013 at 1:24pm:
I know you're saying that 2500 cubic kilometres may have gone underground.
You didn't even get that bit right. How many times do I have to produce this graph?
As for your dodgy Swedish water diviner mate, his malarkey has been exposed:
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2011/12/rising-incredulity-at-the-spectator%E2%8... Quote:These are striking claims that jar with the generally accepted scientific view that sea levels are rising due to climate change, and that this will affect low lying countries.
As a result, Mörner's work has been subjected to close examination by other scientists working on sea level change in the Maldives, including papers from Professor Colin Woodroffe at the University of Wollongong, Professor Philip Woodworth of the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, and a group of Australia scientists led by Dr. John Church at the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research.
They all criticise Mörner's approach and conclusions - Woodworth examined Mörner's claims from "meteorological and oceanographic perspectives" and found them "implausible". Woodroffe described Mörner's claims as "questionable" pointing out his methodologies do not stand up to scrutiny, and that his conclusions lack supporting evidence. The group of Australian scientists found "no evidence for the fall in sea level at the Maldives as postulated by Mörner."
Futhermore, Mörner's claims about satellite altimetry are in error - the technique shows that sea levels rose by around 3 mm per year between 1993 and 2006.
This brings us to INQUA, the International Union for Quaternary Reseach, a professional association of scientists from over 50 countries who study long-term climate change. Mörner claims to be articulating INQUA's collective view, but based on our inquiries with the organisation this appears to be a very bare misrepresentation.
To the extent that INQUA have a collective view on this issue, it seems diametrically opposed to that of Mörner's. Professor Roland Gehrels of the University of Plymouth is the current president of the INQUA commission on Coastal and Marine Processes - the part of INQUA that now considers sea level change.
He described Mörner as a "very good field scientist" and an "entertaining speaker". But, he says, it is misleading for Mörner to describe 'INQUA's research' as showing that sea levels are not rising.
This guy wrote the laws on tides is a major nutjob
The graph
again: (for the sixth time)
Now a disclaimer: The data for this graph doesn't use the skeletons of buried women in the Maldives, water divining or anything like that, but it does represent the research of experts in the field.
Nerem, R. S., D. Chambers, C. Choe, and G. T. Mitchum. "Estimating Mean Sea Level Change from the TOPEX and Jason Altimeter Missions." Marine Geodesy 33, no. 1 supp 1 (2010): 435.