Sea Level

Science is just a vehicle for supporting what you want to believe these days. Latest:

PHILADELPHIA –- An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise, at least in North Carolina, is accelerating. Researchers found 20th-century sea-level rise to be three times higher than the rate of sea-level rise during the last 500 years. In addition, this jump appears to occur between 1879 and 1915, a time of industrial change that may provide a direct link to human-induced climate change.

Hey scientists, stay focused. Sea level change is the dire consequence. Carbon dioxide is the poisonous raiser of temperature. If you want to say that carbon dioxide raised the temperature, then argue that. Support that argument. But you can't say, dire consequences happened, therefore the temperature must have gone up, therefore carbon dioxide must have done it.

And while we're on the subject, aren't we floating on a continental plate? Do we know everything about the dynamics of this big raft we're on? And are you sure the sea level rose? Couldn't it have been North Carolina going down a few centimeters?

Regardless, the article's lame AGW boostery is very much like the drink-killed-uncle-Charley argument: Uncle Charley started drinking again. Uncle Charley died. Therefore, drink killed uncle Charley. (even though he was run over by a bread truck on his way to work)