GREAT SEA-LEVEL HUMBUG
There Is No Alarming Sea Level

Renowned oceanographic expert Nils-Axel Mörner has studied sea level and its effects on coastal areas for some 45 years. Recently retired as director of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics Department at Stockholm University, Mörner is past president (1999- 2003) of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, and leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project. Now he has his own company on Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics in Sweden, and can be reached at morner@pog.nu.

In an interview and paper published in 21st Century in 2007,1 I have shown that global sea level is not in an alarming rising mode, which is the main threat in the International Panel on Climate Change scenario. If sea level is not rising at a high rate, there is no serious threat and no real problem. In subsequent papers, I continued to present new data on sea level stability. In Mörner 2007b, our field observational database from the Maldive Islands was described in detail. A new study in Bangladesh was published in 2010 (Mörner 2010a). 

One of the approximately 1,190 beautiful coral islands that comprise the nation of the Maldives. 

As Mörner shows, the Maldives are not in danger of inundation. short sea level booklet titled “The Greatest Lie EverTold” (Mörner 2007c) was updated in new editions in 2009 and 2010. Here I will investigate the proposed rates of sea level changes by IPCC and others. Figure 1 illustrates the differences between the IPCC models and the observational facts. After 1965, the two curves start to diverge significantly (the area marked with a question mark). This paper will highlight the differences and seek the solution of what data to trust and what to discard.

(To be continued)