Thai Professor Says Sea Is Not Level....

[griffer]

http://www.bangkokpost.net/breaking_news/b...s.php?id=118280

So let me get this right...he is saying that the sea nearer the glaciers will be higher? So boats will will be able to sail downhill from the Arctic to Thailand? Excellent news....

Expert predicts no local rise in sea

(dpa) Global warming is not likely to cause the sea level in the Gulf of Thailand to rise because the body of water is too far from melting glaciers, a leading Thai hydrologist claimed on Monday.

Recent forecasts by the United Nations' Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - which predict a 40 centimetre rise in sea levels by the end of the century will cause flooding for up to 94 million Asians living in coastal areas - may not apply to the Gulf of Thailand, according to Suphat Vongvisessomjai, a former professor in water resources engineering at Bangkok's Asia Institute of Technology.

``The climate change panel's projection was wrongly accepted to apply to the Gulf of Thailand,'' Suphat told The Nation newspaper. ``We are too far from melting glaciers or ice sheets.''

Suphat added that, in fact, recent research shows that the average sea levels along some coastal provinces on the gulf have declined 0.3 to 0.6 centimetres over the past eight years.

The hydrologist, now an employee of Team Consulting Engineering, called on the public not to panic over the IPCC findings.

``The climate change panel did not deceive us or exaggerate. Its scientific findings are just based on the environment of their scientists, most of who live in Europe,'' he told the English-language daily.

[gummy]

Make a note of this Hydrologists name and the company he is working for. By the way and apologise as it is off topic, but where can I find those great laughing emoticans I searched all over but seem to have missed them ?

[jumnien]

Come on guys. We all know the seas aren't level. We were taught that in grade school. Remember? That's why when they built the Panama Canal they had to account for the levels of the oceans being significantly different.

[Tywais]

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