| Happy New Year to all my subscribers! This addresses a response to my video "Climate Change -- Hurricanes, atolls and corals," which, on investigation, revealed a major error by a news agency and a TV network. The moral of the story is that sticking the label "Global Warming" onto anything that moves is not going to help public understanding of climate science. SOURCES: "Rising Water threatens Panama islands" -- Al Jazeera www.youtube.com "Rising sea drives Panama islanders to mainland" by Sean Mattson, Reuters July 12, 2010 www.reuters.com Map of Caribbean tectonics from: "Wide Plate Margin Deformation, Southern Central America and Northwestern South America" R. Trenkamp et al. estrella.geol.sc.edu Paper showing influence of subsidence on tidal guages: "Changing coastal levels of South America and the Caribbean region from tide-gauge records" - DG Aubreya et al, 1988 Map showing isostatic uplift of Britain: www.neccap.org |