No news is ever good news — VOICES for REASON

We’re constantly told that one of the “catastrophic” impacts of global warming will be a rising sea level. But geology can be rather complex. Here is a story about sea levels actually falling around Juneau, Alaska. Apparently, the loss of “billions of tons” of ice that have melted away from retreating glaciers is causing the land to rise faster than the sea.

So is this good news? At least this region will be spared the supposedly catastrophic impacts we hear so much about–flooding, increased coastal erosion, salt water infiltration, and so on–right?

Wrong.

In the environmentalist metaphysics, no change to nature that is attributed–whether validly or not–to human activity is ever auspicious. Here is what the story has to say about the harmful impacts of falling sea levels:

As a result, the region faces unusual environmental challenges. As the sea level falls relative to the land, water tables fall, too, and streams and wetlands dry out. Land is emerging from the water to replace the lost wetlands, shifting property boundaries and causing people to argue about who owns the acreage and how it should be used. And meltwater carries the sediment scoured long ago by the glaciers to the coast, where it clouds the water and silts up once-navigable channels.

Now I am just waiting to hear about a region where the sea level is staying exactly steady…and causing “unusual environmental challenges.”