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In Progress: Fastest Sea Rise In At Least 2800 Years (www.cbc.ca)
Layzej writes: A new study finds that sea levels on Earth are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating. Co-author Stefan Rahmstorf explains that the fact that the rise in the 20th century is so large is a logical physical consequence of man-made global warming. This is melting continental ice and thus adds extra water to the oceans. In addition, as the sea water warms up it expands. The data from the past can also be used for future projections, using a so-called semi-empirical model calibrated with the historically observed relationship between temperature and sea level. With the new data, this results in a projected increase in the 21st century of 24-131 cm, depending on our emissions and thus on the extent of global warming.
...is that it can't be due to atmospheric temperature increase. Because the atmosphere temperature hasn't been increasing for the past 20 years or more. Look at the satellite data.
And the temperature increase we have had during the 1980/90s can't have been due to excess CO2, because we have looked for the tropospheric hot-spot which is a required feature of CO2-driven warming, and it isn't there.
So the sea-level may be rising - it does rise and fall naturally. When the temperature is warm it will rise, and mankind will flourish in the warm climate. When it get's cold mankind suffers famines and disease.
I suspect that we had the Industrial Revolution because the climate was better, providing more food and riches and better living conditions...