Timothy Birdnow

The sea level isn't rising so much as the river deltas are sinkinga and it has nothing to do with atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Years ago I wrote a blogpost for American Thinker criticizing Michael Mann's then-latest work where he measured the sea level along a river delta marsh and concluded sea level rise had drastically increased. I pointed all this out then about the North Carolina area he chose.

Levees keep rivers from spreading out into the marshlands in these deltas, leading to land loss as the mud coming down those rivers just washes out to sea rather than replenishes the wetlands along the coast. The end result is that coastland erodes away and washes out to sea.

Also, since many large cities and vacation areas have grown in such regions and require fresh water pumping has led to the land sinking as the water that the land floated on was no longer there as fill.

No, this delta sinking has nothing to do with carbon-dioxide driven warming but it DOES have to do with human activity. And how much of the claims of sea level rise are actually just sea level sinkage?

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