If global warming causes ocean levels to rise, Why can't we see the effect on the beaches yet?

Question

If global warming causes ocean levels to rise, Why can't we see the effect on the beaches yet?

Answer 1

Because it's a myth.  Ocean levels rise and fall all the time.  It's all very cyclical so it will not effect anything.  For every study out there that says it's happening, there are 2 that say it's not.  Don't believe the hype.

Answer 2

why do you say that

In one town in southern Portugal called Quarteira ,they say the sea is eating the village .

The 17th hole of the Dona Philipa Hotel  near Almancil in the Algarve  has fallen in to the sea

And Roman villas can be found one mile out on the bottom of the sea.

the sea has been rising for some time now

And some low lying arable lands in Biafra and other places are flooding,the rising is very slowly

Answer 3

Apparently, global warming is causing the land masses of the world to rise at the same rate....

Answer 4

One can, if you pay attention.

Oceans are currently rising at a rate of a few millimeters/year[1]; this rate is at such a snail pace that if you stuck a stick into the water, then you would not see any effect at all. But the effect can be seen in increased erosion of beaches[2], fresh water aquifers that become indurated with salt water[3], and larger “king” high tides[4].

Answer 5

Because at the moment sea levels are only rising at a rate of 3.4 mm/year.  However, this rate is accelerating.

Answer 6

From a Study be Robinson and Soon:  You can see the chart they are referring to by finding the study called "Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide"

Global sea level measured by surface gauges be tween 1807 and 2002 (24) and by satellite between 1993 and 2006 (25). satellite measurements are shown in gray and agree with tide gauge measurements. The over all trend is an in crease of 7 inches per century. Intermediate trends are 9, 0, 12, 0, and 12 inches per century, respectively. This trend lags the temperature increase, so it predates the increase in hydrocarbon use even more than is shown. It is unaffected by the very large increase in hydrocarbon use.

In other words the rate of increase of sea levels has been the same before 1950 and the increase use of c02, and after.  What we are seeing is a natural increase in sea levels due to the fact we are coming out of a small ice age.

Answer 7

Because the climate models using computer software cannot ever completely account for everything happening in nature.  

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.  What some scientists who are studying the sea levels have found is that there is more evaporation taking place that was not accounted for in the computer models that predicted AGW would cause the seas to rise.  Also, glaciers that are melting in one part are expanding in another currently.   If a glacier is not on land, its water displacement has been for all intents and purposes been nullified.  This is very simplistic....mind you.

Fill a glass half full of water and the rest with ice and when the ice melts the glass has not spilled over.  This goes for glaciers as well.  

I could go on with other items like this all relating to just one aspect of climate research.  The point is that even scientists that believe in global warming are constantly scratching their heads as to why climate models have such a wide variance or why they don't act like nature.

I think that we shouldn't necessarily accuse the scientists who often only look at one aspect of climate research of being stupid or wrong, but that maybe no one can clearly see the whole picture.  

You have so many variables Solar Flares, Earth's rotation, Plate Tectonics, Volcanic activity on land and at sea etc....etc....  We cannot clearly see how it all fits together or how one will react with another force applied.  

I think scientists need to constantly observe the earth before trying to predict a catastrophe based soley on computer modelling.

Answer 8

The effects have been seen in hurricane storm surges, and have been documented, hence hurricane Katrina, duh!?

Answer 9

go and take a trip to the east coast of Anglia...look at Dunwich, see the cliff in the water, look at the pictures of the village 25 years ago, see what's gone...(in the water)

take care...it is TRUE !