Indeed, for 90% of human existence, sea levels have been lower than present by as much as 130 m.
Unless their is a sea change in human consciousness, the number of celebrities willing to fly to Moscow for a few million dollars will continue to exceed those who refuse to do so.
That leaves a maximum six or seven inches of sea level rise remaining from human-induced warming (probably less), which is pretty small beer.
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Hawk, on top of seal, on top of deer, on top of human: a simple cairn at the rivermouth, marking my sea fall and the end of my walk.
The very existence of the gods was inseparable from that of a storm, a sea, a river, or from those powerful human emotions love, rage or sexual passion that seemed momentarily to lift men and women onto a different plane of existence so that they saw the world with new eyes.
Animals that were once used for bait or that were considered worthless (hagfish, sea cucumber) were later taken in large quantities for human consumption.
For many conservationists, the near-extinction of numerous whale populations in the seventies, and their continued threatened status today, is emblematic of a much more severe problem: the wholesale harvesting, whether for human consumption or for industry, of too many living things from the sea.
This is the case for global sea surface temperatures, which alarmists claim should be sucking up much of the predicted human-induced warming.
This Ocean forecasting system could generate crucial forecast information, such as ocean circulation, sea surface temperature, wave height, to serve the needs of a variety of human activities related to marine hazards mitigation, oil and gas exploration, fisheries, navigation, marine parks management and coastal recreational activities.
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This includes human traffickers, who promise to help desperate people start new lives overseas, but often abandon them at sea.
Here's one example why we should care: in 1977, diving in the human occupied vehicle Alvin, scientists investigating a volcanic ridge 2500 m (1.5 miles) below sea-level found something totally unexpected -- lush ecosystems thriving at hydrothermal vents fueled by chemical energy released from the Earth's interior.
So, of the 17.34 foot record elevation of the station base sea level caused by Sandy, yes, a maximum of about six inches might be related to human activity.
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Inside are human skulls, life vests from Japanese whalers, the proud figurehead of a galleon, brass cannons, rigging and sea-worn chains.
Lucent's interest in sea creatures is not entirely academic, despite Bell Labs' honourable history of pushing back the frontiers of human understanding.
The period of human settlement over the past 10, 000 years is known as the Holocene, during which time temperatures and hence sea levels (the two having a close correspondence) have been remarkable stable.
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