The Seas Aren't Rising (But Much Coastal Land Is)

A Swedish physicist argues, based on empirical evidence, rather than computer modeling, that the oceans are not rising and couldn't rise more than 4 inches if the ice melted (for thermodynamics reasons). He might have added, as he could testify by walking along the Swedish coastlines, that land is rising. In many parts of the world, land is rising so rapidly as to be observable to the unaided eye and to require rebuilding of port facilities. How could this be possible? During the last Ice Age, land under glacial ice was compressed by the weight of the ice. When the ice melted, relieving the land of the weight above it, the land began to decompress, thereby rising upward. This process is still going on. The putative rising oceans of global warming models would not even balance out this upward geological land thrust. So, even if oceans were in a secular trend of rising, which they probably aren't, they wouldn't threaten many coastal cities.