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No news is ever good news

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 by Keith Lockitch

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?

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