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Don:
Coming from a masters-degreed environmental scientist, thanks for the wonderfully refreshing article. One of the best I've seen in recent times. Unfortunately, you've opened the can of worms that will get the internet trollers (and near robotic skeptic/denial-machine) out in full force.
We can only hope that people will eventually see what is happening without models, physics, equations, and scientists to understand them... but by then it may be too late to take care of...
#2: There is far more money to be made by promoting delay and inaction. Not even tiny amounts more... massive amounts more. I can guarantee you as someone from the academic/science field that money is not free-flowing for people wishing to study any particular part of science. Your metaphor is silly and without merit.
"Could it be because the sea levels have barely risen in the last five years (less than 1/2-inch)?"
5 years isn't even enough to establish anything climate related, let alone show a change in climate. That statistic, even if accurate, is irrelevant.
"NASA-funded University of Colorado Sea Level Research Group is adding 0.3 millimeters per year to its Global Mean Sea Level Time Series. That is not a measurement; they have decide to add it because they claim glacial melt is...