Sea Level Rising

A couple of days ago the BBC's Environment Correspondent Richard Black reported that research shows ice loss from Antartica and Greenland has accelerated over the last 20 years and will soon become the biggest driver of of sea level rise. Scientists calculate from satellite data and climate models (hopefully the flawed Met Office climate model is not one) that the two polar ice sheets are losing enough ice to to raise sea levels by 1.3mm per year. This rise is apparently likely to be significantly higher than the level projected by the IPCC if present tends continue. We know that the IPCC projections are also flawed and thus in my view it can be safely assumed that this is just a scare story and can be ignored for all the reasons that those scientists who poured cold water on the IPPC's findings will explain in full once the report on which Black's article is based is published. Global warming and cooling is cyclical as in fairness Black seems to realise by having said 'if present trends continue'. If sea levels have indeed risen over the last 20 years they will surely reduce as the current cycle ends. That mere man can change the climate is a conceit that has been fully exposed by today's earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Nature's power is indeed awesome.