Rising oceans..do all oceans rise the same amount.?

Question

I have hear some people deny global warming by saying that the 'experts' have been lieing to us about rising ocean levels. They say that the beach that they go to in, say, the West Indies, has not raised in the past forty years, and since all oceans are connected then no water could have raised anywhere else. Is this true, do all oceans raise the same amount? Or do certain local conditions affect the level of the oceans at different coast lines?

Answer 1

I deny global warming, because i've researched it a whole lot, and have realized just how fake the whole thing is (yes, the earth is warming, but it doesnt have an effect really). and I say that some oceans rise, and some fall: the whole ocean doesn't do the same thing. i think the ocean levels are in general rising, but it will take hundreds of years to go even a foot.

Answer 2

40 years is not enough time for there to be a really noticeable

ocean level rise to the casual observer..

And yes, all the oceans are connected so they all rise

the same amount...

The oceans have been rising & falling for billions of years..

15,000 years ago, they were about 400 ft. lower than they

are today....

Answer 3

look at the images in this link, talk about a tide....

I hope this answers your comment about "all oceans raise the same amount?" no they don't

Answer 4

The team has compiled a record of sea-level changes spanning 100 million years, according to a Rutgers University news release.  Drilling 500 meters below the surface, the scientists examined samples from different periods in geologic time, comparing sediments, fossils and variations in isotopes -- different forms of the same elements.

The Rutgers group also correlated the measurements from the Atlantic Ocean shore of New Jersey with others taken from around the world to substantiate the global nature of the record.

The findings indicate that ocean levels rose at a steady millimeter-per-year from 5,000 years ago, until about 200 years ago.  Sea level measurements from 1850 until the present reveal an average annual rise of two millimeters.

I am assuming that your friends would not see a 2 millimeter diff.