More on Sea Level Change

In my research on global sea-level change, I stumbled across a scientific publication produced in 2001 by the IPCC, which is one of the leading scientific groups now promoting global warming theories.  In the publication, I found this fascinating graph (click to expand).

Take a good look.  Something should just LEAP off the page at you.

Let the IPCC scientists who produced this data give you a hint:

These fluctuations demonstrate the occurrence of sea level oscillations during a glacial-interglacial cycle that exceed 100m in magnitude at average rates of up to 10 mm/year and more during periods of decay of the ice sheets and sometimes reaching rates as high as 40 mm/year (Bard et al., 1996) for periods of very rapid ice sheet decay.

Did you get that?

My friends, if the sea level changes up to 100m (at a rate of 40mm/year) without human intervention why do we need to get worked up about the human impacts of global warming which have been liberally estimated at perhaps an additional 1mm/year (or, 0 mm/year if you believe these 50 respected experts).

This also means that the Earth is more than capable of offsetting any theoretical human-caused sea-level changes by a factor of 5-20x.  Which means that when the Earth decides to go on a cooling binge, we're going to be absolutely incapable of producing enough carbon emissions to keep the seas from shrinking dangerously.

In short, we humans should be prepared for massive sea level changes based on the geological evidence, and should try to remember that, even though we are the most powerful species on the planet, Gaia is still far more powerful than all the humans who have ever lived, combined.