To those who don't believe AGW is real

[NickFitz]

absolutely. but apparently you have to go past O level, take a right at A level, straight ahead at degree and up into orbit with the Royal Society before you can understand how that can impact on the volume of h2o in the oceans

Not really. Sea level, in the UK, is defined by the Ordnance Survey as the vertical datum mean sea level at Newlyn in Cornwall. As the land in that area is sinking due to isostatic rebound, the datum has to be adjusted periodically to correct for this.

As both the water level and the level of the land are changing, crude measurements of the kind favoured by the sceptics are not a valid measure of change, or absence thereof.

Not that hard, is it?

[Diver]

Sea level must have come up a fair bit with all this rain, I can tell yer

[sasguru]

Sea level must have come up a fair bit with all this rain, I can tell yer

Are you the best they could come up with?

[Diver]

Are you the best they could come up with?

I'm just comedy relief during the interval

[sasguru]

I declare this thread closed. The forces of ignorance and reactionism have been routed yet again by science and reason.

[Diver]

I declare this thread closed. The forces of ignorance and reactionism have been routed yet again by science and reason.

Ah! I hope losing doesn't hurt too much. Going off in a sulk would indicate otherwise however

[sasguru]

Ah! I hope losing doesn't hurt too much. Going off in a sulk would indicate otherwise however

I'll let you off. I am magnanimous in victory.
Although NickFitz came in at the end for the coup de grace

[Diver]

I thought they measured changing land & sea levels from space now anyway

[EternalOptimist]

Not really. Sea level, in the UK, is defined by the Ordnance Survey as the vertical datum mean sea level at Newlyn in Cornwall. As the land in that area is sinking due to isostatic rebound, the datum has to be adjusted periodically to correct for this.

As both the water level and the level of the land are changing, crude measurements of the kind favoured by the sceptics are not a valid measure of change, or absence thereof.

Not that hard, is it?

now I see that you are in on the joke. ok I'll play along.
If sea levels around the world rise four inches in a century, but england sinks a bit, you think that sea levels havn't really risen four inches ???. And its not sceptics saying any of this, its the OP linky.

maybe the the AGW committee need to be clearer, 'sea levels will rise by x cm relative to my uncles back garden in Somerset'

[tay]

I declare this thread closed. The forces of ignorance and reactionism have been routed yet again by science and reason.

religion
socialism

SAS you are sounding less and less scientific and more religous as time goes on.

Just a neutral observation, carry on squabbling.