--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 3:42 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rising seas threaten sacred Indian island > > > Someone will have to explain "sea level" to me. > > I certainly understand when lakes or rivers within enclosed land can rise or > fall. But bodies of water, such as the topic here, connected to the oceans > of the world are all at sea level, no? Certainly, tides may rise up or down > and cover or uncover land...but how can any of this be permanent by "rising" > sea levels when, as I understand it, the entire connected oceans of the > world would have to rise simultaneously? > That's exactly what's happening, because melting ice in Greenland and > Antarctica is adding to the amount of sea water, cause seas to rise. If they > rise as it is predicted they might, coastal cities like New York will be > inundated. Now it's just impacting low-lying islands. >
Rick, Rick, Rick. That is NOT "exactly what is happening" because if it was, New York City 10,000 miles away from India would have the exact same rise as this island does.
