The news on the unraveling of man-made climate change theory is not being widely reported in the American press, but the British press has stayed on the story.  The guardian.co.uk reported Sunday that scientists have been forced to withdraw the numbers previously published on rising sea levels. 

A study published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience predicted that sea level would rise by between 7cm and 82cm by the end of the century.  The study was supposedly based on data from the past 22,000 years.  The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) had released a study in 2007 stating that the sea level would probably rise18cm-59cm by 2100.  These statements have now been retracted.

The article states:

“In a statement the authors of the paper said: “Since publication of our paper we have become aware of two mistakes which impact the detailed estimation of future sea level rise. This means that we can no longer draw firm conclusions regarding 21st century sea level rise from this study without further work.

“”One mistake was a miscalculation; the other was not to allow fully for temperature change over the past 2,000 years. Because of these issues we have retracted the paper and will now invest in the further work needed to correct these mistakes.””

In a world where the weatherman may not even get his predictions for next week right, I think we need to be careful how seriously we regard his projections for the next century.