Via Watts Up With That?: Despite popular opinion and calls to action, the Maldives are not being overrun by sea level rise.
No spot in the Maldives is more than six feet above sea level. ...The Maldives are not submerged nor are they submerging.
The Maldives, a strand of coral atolls south of India, is just about the most tenuous country on Earth. No patch of land in the island chain, where the population has risen from 200,000 to 400,000 in the last 25 years, is more than six feet or so above sea level. Even modest projections for a rise in sea level from global warming would increase flooding from storm surges. A higher rise could render hundreds of islands uninhabitable. ...
So it boils down to this: Who would you rather believe? People doing studies on-site and gathering photographic evidence that shows clear geologic actions of lowered sea levels on the islands, or somebody sitting in an office analyzing and doing regressions on tide gauge data
As a matter of fact, the sea level is receding as the Earth expands.
Ostia, aka Portus Romanus, the main seaport of Ancient Rome, is now 2 miles inland with no access to the sea.
In New Jersey, new land exposed by the receding sea is sold to the highest bidder.
And the only thing submerged in the Maldives is Ithaa at the Conrad.
Amazing what a little intelligent design can do.
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19 comments:
Why don't we see the same receeding sea level everywhere else as the earth expands? The islands show quite a bit of new land, we should be getting all kinds of new acreage, but we're not.
I should think that something is pushing the Maldives up, and not the ocean level down, but I lack a citation for it.
Perhaps all the hot air from this blog is causing a bouyancy effect of some sort? :)
I'd read that the reason some ancient Roman ports are located so far from the sea was due to glacial sedimentation from the alps. I'm certainly willing to believe otherwise, but why, for instance, is Piraeus still located adjacent to the ocean? I'd imagine that the new earth at Roman ports has been tested to see if it came from accumulated silt or if it is former ocean bottom. On the other hand, 20 miles of silt, the farthest one roman port is from the sea, is a lot of silt.
Silting happens in rivers and harbors all the time. You can tell it is not just expanding earth because wrecks are covered by it.
Amazing what seafloor spreading does over time. My bet is still on the rate of seafloor spreading being greater than the rate of subduction, but I also believe the rate of iceberg melting is greater than them both.
I'll repost this here as it was ignored on the previous thread.
http://www.biocab.org/Geological_TS_Sea_Level.jpg
If one look closely at the graph on sea levels, above, one can see a series of pulses - as if the Earth has a beating heart. Notice that each pulse is larger but inverted, followed by short contraction, long expansion, shorter contraction, longer expansion… etc. Now, if one again looks closely one can see that the pulsations each time are larger and that the system does not return to the point of origin, but that the expansions are larger. This can be explained in two ways:
1. The Earth is losing water mass gradually.
2. The Earth is expanding.
Which of the two explanations offers the most rational explanation?
Anyone?
http://www.biocab.org/Carbon_Dioxide_Geological_Timescale.html
Conclusion from the assessment
On this assessment, evidence points to a current natural climate change which happens sequentially in two main climate periods, icehouse and warmhouse. It also reveals the succession of four natural climate phases known as transgression, highstand, regression and lowstand. The transgression phase consists of a rising of Sea Levels, flooding the continental area. Highstand is a phase where the Sea Levels remain almost stable but oscillating into the transgression phase. The regression phase consists of a gradual diminution of the marine levels, leaving uncovered greater continental areas. The phase of Lowstand consists of a permanence of low sea levels. Currently, the Earth is going through a lowstand phase, which will revert to Transgression phase. The succession of these phases show the Earth is cooling. At the moment, the area of continental flood is almost 7%; we expect, according to the climatic succession, that the continental flooded area will be almost 10%, but never so massive as to put in danger the human populations...
http://www.biocab.org/Carbon_Dioxide_Geological_Timescale.html
Jeffery,
"Why don't we see the same receeding sea level everywhere else as the earth expands?"
Um, actually we do. Ostia and New Jersey. Ever heard of them?
"The islands show quite a bit of new land, we should be getting all kinds of new acreage, but we're not."
Obviously you ignored the post. Go back and read the post where it talks about all the new acreage in New Jersey you're deliberately ignoring.
"I lack a citation for it."
Of course you do.
"Perhaps all the hot air from this blog is causing a bouyancy effect of some sort? :)"
Perhaps it's effecting your reading comprehension?
Pleroma,
"I'd read that the reason some ancient Roman ports are located so far from the sea was due to glacial sedimentation from the alps."
What glacial sedimentation from the Alps?
"why, for instance, is Piraeus still located adjacent to the ocean?"
Piraeus used to be an island. The receding sea has made it a coastal port.
QF,
"Amazing what seafloor spreading does over time. My bet is still on the rate of seafloor spreading being greater than the rate of subduction..."
Exactly.
And they say there is no mechanism...LOL.
BF,
You are absolutely correct and sorry I forgot about your observation after I read it.
Very timely of you; my apologies.
"The net result of the electrical imbalance will be the pulsation of the Earth (expansion-contraction), which is superimposed on its expansion" (Tassos 1998).
SEA LEVELS STABLE OR RECEEDING
So much for rising sea levels, the Maldives are one example, another example is in Tasmania (Australia) where an ancient sea level marker established 160 years ago (1841) is now out of the water at mean tide (average sea level).
The Peer Review System:
Is Climate Science Politically Corrupt?
Please scroll down to the heading:
Peer Review and Censorship - A Case Study
"Very briefly, the Isle of the Dead is a small 2-acre island inside Port Arthur harbour in southeastern Tasmania. In 1841, the Antarctic explorer Captain Sir James Clark Ross was responsible for establishing a survey mark on a cliff on the island, which he said (several times) marked `zero point, or the mean level of the sea’."
"The sea level benchmark is still there in full view, but now lies not at mean sea level (MSL) as Ross said, but at a point 31 cm above MSL. The documentary evidence surrounding the establishment and later position of this mark is both contradictory and inconclusive. However, a paper by Hunter et al appeared in GRL purporting to demonstrate that the mark really shows that sea level rose at the Isle of the Dead by around 9.8 mm/yr, which just happens to match the IPCC lower estimate of 10 mm/yr global sea level rise during the 20th century."
The marker lies "at a point 31 cm above MSL."
Yet, man-made global warming advocates say it shows the sea level is rising???
The case study is a good example of how climate science is a crap shoot at best and a farse at worst.
The scientific evidence does not support the contention that sea levels are rising, rather there is evidence that sea levels fall as the Earth expands.
@OIM
I have no idea where I read about the sediment from the alps, some history textbook, so I'll let that one go as potential BS written by an historian who doesn't really know.
I didn't know that about Piraeus. My Devil's Advocacy is depleted.
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The mountain had been climed, new vitas needed to be conquered, and scientific evidence that supported the Expanding Earth theory came to OilIsMastery's attention. This subject was duly examined and then subsequent to that Plasma Cosmology has been examined.
All three subjects are the center of controversy (largely under the radar of the general public) in their disciplines.
In Each case a substantial body of scientific evidence supports these theories' contentions.
One of the objections to Expanding Earth theory was, "Okay, the geological evidence is substantial and so is the taxia (animals and plants) evidence, but what about the "mechanism"?
There are many hypothesis.
But this writer, with the help of BF, hypothesized it was related to plasma flowing from the Sun to the Earth (ions and electrons) by way of Birkeland currents.
This held promise, but it could be argued there was insubstantial matter being added to the Earth in this process to account for the apparent expansion of the Earth.
Others added that chemical reactions would cause an expansion in volume without addition in matter as a result of the chemical reactions. I don't object to this hypothesis, it certainly is the easiest to conceptualize.
But I still felt Plasma Cosmology had a direct impact on Expanding Earth theory.
In fact, I also subscribe to the idea that hydrocarbon formation in the Earth's bowels is increased by electromagnetic energy from the Sun and, indeed, the Earth's volcanic activity is also impacted by electromagnetic energy from the Sun.
Now, there is evidence of intense electromagnetic events in the Earth's history, auroras on steroids if you will.
Dr. Anthony Peratt co-authored a paper “ Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity Part II: Directionality and Source”, (IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE, VOL. 35, NO. 4, AUGUST 2007), in which the discovery that the world-wide distribution of petroglyphs and megaliths of the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age show patterns associated with high-current Z-pinches produced in the laboratory and are thought to correspond to mankind’s visual observations of ancient auroras as might be produced if the solar wind had increased at times between one and two orders of magnitude a millennia ago (hat tip Louis Hissink).
This is the caption for an artist's conception of schematic for these intense Birkeland currents: "Fig. 67. Conceptual view of the Birkeland sheath filaments surrounding Earth (28 close pairs). The relativistic electron flow is downwards toward Antarctica. As shown in Figs. 63 and 64, the current bundle above Antarctica twists in counter-clockwise rotation. By convention, the Birkeland currents and ion flow is upwards toward the Arctic. Not yet completely resolved is a bend in the upper filament sheath that allows the upper plasmoids and column to be seen at northern latitudes." (page 25 of 30)
I highly recommend readers take the time to check out the schematic, itself, and Peratt's observations & measurements which form the foundation of his conclusions.
Plasmoids are special features of electromgantic energy systems.
They are a larger "generator" or dynamo of electromagnetism, whereas the 'double layer' is the basic mechanism of eletron/ion seperation and acceleration.
Notice the caption in Dr. Peratt's paper includes "plasmoid".
In essence, this "plasmoid cage" surrounded the Earth. But there is something else that could have happened that would address many unanswered questions.
Take a look at the image on the right of this pair of images.
This image is of another plasmoid. See the recurrent plasmoid cage and the twisted braids inside the cage.
If a plasmoid cage existed around the Earth, it is also likely that a "plasmoid axis", the twisted braids, would exist inside the Earth where electrons and ions would come together for recombination and energy release.
This process would have focussed tremendous amouts of matter into the Earth from the Sun. In fact, the matter and energy to expand the Earth and energize the crustal volcanic activity of the Earth would be readily available. In turn, stimulating hydrogen and carbon formation (hydrocarbon formation) as well as supplying hydrogen ions that would become hydrogen atoms in the presence of free electrons.
This process also quite possibly would have acted to influence the tilt of the Earth's axis.
Please link and review this schematic of the heliospheric current sheet is a three-dimensional form of a Parker spiral that results from the influence of the Sun's rotating magnetic field on the plasma in the interplanetary medium.
Notice how it swirls outward from the Sun, it would be likely that an Earth enveloped in a planetary plasmoid cage with a "plasmoid axis" running inside the Earth up through the Earth's axis, attached to a Birkeland currrent running from the Sun to the Earth would have a strong tendency to "bend the tilt" with the prevailing orientation of the Birkeland current swirling out from the Sun. This would have the effect of tilting the axis of the Earth in relation to the Sun.
Finally, this process likely could have been repeated many times in the past, and...could happen, again, in the future.
As a bonus, review the left-hand schematic of the plasmoid kink instability stacked on top of one another. Does that have any resemblence to asiatic temple architecture?
Check out this YouTube video titled:The World Axis, Cosmic Axis, or Axis Mundi, based partly on Dr. Anthony Peratt's work and also on Rens Van der Sluijus' work.
Review the linked YouTube video. Isn't it amazing how many of these symbols still have a powerful place in our culture.
The jigsaw puzzle has always been before us, lying in pieces waiting to be solved.
Men have solved the puzzle -- will Man listen?
Or is Man too stubborn of heart and proud of mind to invite the reality of how a fundamental force of the Universe has shaped our world and our very lives?
Anaconda,
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Yes. Excellent work all of you. And I'm flattered...=)
Thanks OIM. It's good to know this stuff isn't slipping past you.
Did you know the United State of the Emorites is building domes underwater already?
@BF "This can be explained in two ways: 1. The Earth is losing water mass gradually. 2. The Earth is expanding. Which of the two explanations offers the most rational explanation? Anyone?"
Actually, the chart is purporting to show "continental flooded area" which went from something like ~50 million square kilometers to less than ~10 million square kilometers over geological history. I'm not sure what would constitute "continental flooded area" today? The Mediterranean Sea? Not sure.
Anyway, it does not necessarily imply either of your two scenarios (loss of water, expanding earth). As I understand it the "conventional theory" is that continental landmass has been accumulating over geological time due to sediments scraping off during subduction. Thus, there is more continental volume today and the continents are higher, probably causing the low lying areas of the continents to be reduced and therefore less flooding.
Tom Marking Said: "t does not necessarily imply either of your two scenarios (loss of water, expanding earth). As I understand it the "conventional theory" is that continental landmass has been accumulating over geological time due to sediments scraping off during subduction. Thus, there is more continental volume today and the continents are higher, probably causing the low lying areas of the continents to be reduced and therefore less flooding."
Tom: The problem with the subduction hypothesis is that it has been unable to withstand theoretical scrutiny from a growing number of highly qualified researchers (see OIM sidebar). "Subduction" was invented to save the continental drift hypothesis by apparently resolving the otherwise tricky problem of explaining how solid rock might pass through solid rock. As far as I'm aware, nobody has ever observed either solid rock passing through solid rock or "subduction" happening in real nature — or even an element of it from which we may infer that it is happening. In other words, the mechanism is a fabrication designed to mask a serious fault in the continental drift hypothesis. Often, in the scientific academies, priority of political agendas weighs more heavily than truth.
You should review the paper by Stavros Tassos, Tom. It's a very important paper because it explains in quantitative terms the generation of Excess Mass, stress and the consequent pulses of planetary expansion. Similar to the pulse events identified in Nasif Nahle's assessment of sea level changes over geological time, from which planetary expansion can be inferred.
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/8098/Excess-mass-stress.htm
http://www.biocab.org/Carbon_Dioxide_Geological_Timescale.html
@BF "The problem with the subduction hypothesis is that it has been unable to withstand theoretical scrutiny from a growing number of highly qualified researchers"
Well, no one here has yet refuted the evidence from the deep earthquakes occuring along subduction zones:
http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami2006Tonga.html
If you scroll down you will see a nice chart showing number of earthquakes versus longitude and depth for the Tonga trench. The longitude goes from 184 degrees at the surface to 179 degrees at a depth of 700 km. At a latitude of 21 deg S each degree of longitude is roughly 104 km. Thus, the earthquakes sink to a depth of 700 km over a horizontal distance of 520 km or a dip angle of 53 degrees beneath horizontal.
This is in perfect agreement with subduction theory which says the slab sinks into the ground, and very hard to explain via Expanding Earth theory.
"Subduction" was invented to save the continental drift hypothesis by apparently resolving the otherwise tricky problem of explaining how solid rock might pass through solid rock. As far as I'm aware, nobody has ever observed either solid rock passing through solid rock or "subduction" happening in real nature — or even an element of it from which we may infer that it is happening."
Well, the earthquakes following the presumed line of subduction is pretty convincing evidence that it is, in fact, happening.
"You should review the paper by Stavros Tassos, Tom. It's a very important paper because it explains in quantitative terms the generation of Excess Mass"
Even Anaconda, rejects the Tassos model because of its reliance on exotic matter and the creation of matter from nothing.
Tom: The Tonga trench earthquake phenomena can be explained more easily as a manifestation of planetary expansion. We have to keep in mind that the proposed driving force of subduction — mantle convection — is also an unproven hypothesis straining under the weight of conflicting evidence. By contrast, we could say that planetary expansion isn't a theory but rather an observation — an observation captured in the rate of increasing width of the trans-Pacific distance between Australia and South America (+65.3 mm/yr) and in the reduction of the area of continental flooding over geological time. Expansion is also evident on different planets and moons in our Solar system but not subduction. Hopefully you can see now, Tom, that we have no need for exotic hypotheses to make a coherent case for expansion. What you see is what you get.
http://www.expanding-earth.org/page_9.htm
http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/global/expanding_earth.html
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