Re: OT: sea level 'rise' hmmmmm....

Jonathan Kirwan wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:51:59 -0700, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jonathan Kirwan wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:14:46 -0700, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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May I suggest you also write Dr.Steve Nerem?
Only a few days have passed. People have lives. My normal practice
is to wait a month, if my question is likely to involve more than a
minute or two of their time. I don't know what you wrote (feel free
to publish it here), but if you asked for something that might take
some care in responding I'd tend to allow a little more time.
Agreed. However, what I do when there is a request I don't have time to handle right now: I send a short email that I've got to run but will get back to the requester in about x weeks. Personally I try to avoid auto-replies but even that would be ok in this case.

Okay.

Let me know what you asked. If I can see what that is and agree with
the slant of it, I'd be willing to put it in my own words and find
someone else who might be able to answer. You've already started Dr.
Nerem on your point, so jumping from two sides within a week would be
a bit... excessive. But there are other scientists working in the
area and I could probably track one or two down on my own and try that
approach.
Email is on another secure PC, not easy to copy. What I wrote:

Thanked him for the quick reply. Wrote that I clicked all over their interactive map, could not find step increases either, suggested he try the same. Asked him how the graph was calculated.

Okay. I get the gist. Sounds like a reasonable question to me. I'll
see what I can do. I'll probably phrase it a little differently, of
course. But I'll see if there is someone "down in the mud" on this
stuff who can provide some insight.


Thing is, their data on the interactive map is given in cm while the main page has mm. So there may very well be a rise but one cannot say from the data presented.

Coincidentally I had a discussion with a group in Germany who kind of ganged up on me as a hardcore denialist. Which I am not, I am just a skeptic. They were blaming the last record flood in Hamburg on the rising sea level. So, I asked them to present some data I could throw on Excel that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the level there is rising. A link would suffice. Since then, silence ...

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