Letter - Facts, not politics, on sea level changes
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Updated: November 04, 2009 10:38 AM
Regarding Kees Visser’s Oct. 28 In Response piece, I would like to commend Visser on his thoughtful, factual article on sea level changes. As he correctly details, sea level is constantly changing, generally over a fairly narrow range. Much of what we read in the newspapers or hear on the evening news regarding sea level changes or dangerous anthropogenic global warming/climate change is not the median expectation but the alarming outside edge of the prediction range.
Fortunately, for those interested in the facts and not the politics of climate change there is the internet. For starters and general interest I can recommend Watts Up With That [http://wattsupwiththat.com/ ]
For boring technical details there are Climate Audit (www.climateaudit.org/) and Climate Observations(http://bobtisdale.b logspot.com/).
For a lighthearted look and instructions on creating your own “hockey stick graph” there is Lucia’s The Blackboard (http://rankexploits.com/musings/).
(I am a retired professional geological engineer and professional environmentalist.)
Gordon Ford,
Salt Spring
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