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Pcdefender said..
Occasional flooding that recedes is not sea level rise.
The Swan River has not risen in the 43 years i have been in Perth and i am certain in the next 43 years it will not have risen a millimeter.
The ruling elite buy increasingly expensive property on the coast and are indifferent to the claims of sea level rise.
Most short of the Extinction Rebellion crowd know it is all lies.
"there is none so blind as those that do not wish to see"
My favourite pithy quote applys well here.
Im no christian, but accept that there is plenty of wisdom in holy books, the Torah,the koran, or the bible.
Not my beef, but you are showing a complete lack of understanding of sea level rise.
Firstly the sea is not static nor even, some place experience 6m tides some less than 1m. This empirical phenomenon shows how the fluid body moves in an uneven way. This is referred to as ocean dynamics. Sea level rises are not a static or constant thing rather extreme and occasional events. El Nino and La Nina affect sea levels, as does monsoon for instance. Southern Ireland (Cork to be exact) parts of France Portugal Spain are right now suffering very bad flooding due to storm surge and documented sea level rises. Farmers are loosing land to the sea, loosing both stock and tillage. Holland has had to beef up it's Dykes in recent times as a defence to sea rises. Likewise many parts of the Pacific are loosing low lying outer reef islands to a rising sea.
We are lucky in Australia we suffer very little coastal inundation. Collaroy in Sydney here has bourn the brunt of sea level rises locally and necessitated the building of a massive ugly sea wall that looks like WW2 fortifications. Hardly an 'indifference by the ruling elite' rather a necessary action to a very real and measurable change.
The second factor is the unevenness of the earths gravity field. The core of the earth being a fluid (mantle being to a large degree fluid iron) is constantly in motion, and changing density, therefore affecting its mass and by definition its gravitational force. The earths crust is actually very thin, if the earth was the size of an average apple the earths crust measured from its extremes would be only as thin a half the apple skin. This also affects how gravity changes depending on where on earth you are. The differences are very small but have a massive influence on tides, and water levels.