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Hero of Contrarian Climate Science
Dr Nils-Axel Morner Sea Level Expert
Claim That Sea Level Is
Rising Is a Total Fraud
22 June 2007
Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner is the head of the Paleogeophysics and
Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Swe-
den. He is past president (1999-2003) of the INQUA Com-
mission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, and
leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project. Dr. Mörner has
been studying the sea level and its effects on coastal areas for
some 35 years. He was interviewed by Gregory Murphy on
June 6 for EIR.
Mörner: I am a sea-level specialist. There are many good
sea-level people in the world, but let’s put it this way: There’s
no one who’s beaten me. I took my thesis in 1969, devoted to
a large extent to the sea-level problem. From then on, I have
launched most of the new theories, in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s.
I was the one who understood the problem of the gravitational
potential surface, the theory that it changes with time. I’m the
one who studied the rotation of the Earth, how it affected the
redistribution of the oceans’ masses. And so on. And then I
was president of INQUA, an international fraternal associa-
tion, their Commission on Sea-Level Changes and Coastal
Evolution, from 1999 to 2003. And in order to do something
intelligent there, we launched a special international sea-level
research project in the Maldives, because that’s the hottest
spot on Earth for—there are so many variables interacting
there, so it was interesting, and also people had claimed that
the Maldives—about 1,200 small islands—were doomed to
disappear in 50 years, or at most, 100 years. So that was a very
important target.
Then I have had my own research institute at Stockholm
University, which was devoted to something called paleogeo-
physics and geodynamics. It’s primarily a research institute,
but lots of students came, and I have several PhD theses at my
institute, and lots of visiting professors and research scientists
came to learn about sea level. Working in this field, I don’t
think there’s a spot on the Earth I haven’t been in! In the north-
most, Greenland; and in Antarctica; and all around the Earth,
and very much at the coasts. So I have primary data from so
many places, that when I’m speaking, I don’t do it out of igno-
rance, but on the contrary, I know what I’m talking about. And
I have interaction with other scientific branches, because it’s
very important to see the problems not just from one eye, but
from many different aspects. Sometimes you dig up some very
important thing in some geodesic paper which no other geolo-
gist would read. And you must have the time and the courage
to go into the big questions, and I think I have done that.
The last ten years or so, of course, everything has been the
discussion on sea level, which they say is drowning us; in the
early ’90s, I was in Washington giving a paper on how the sea
level is not rising, as they said. That had some echoes around
the world.
Now read on here
www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/2007_20-29/2007-25/pdf/33-37_725.pdf
Dr Nils-Axel Morner Sea Level Expert
Claim That Sea Level Is
Rising Is a Total Fraud
22 June 2007
Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner is the head of the Paleogeophysics and
Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Swe-
den. He is past president (1999-2003) of the INQUA Com-
mission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, and
leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project. Dr. Mörner has
been studying the sea level and its effects on coastal areas for
some 35 years. He was interviewed by Gregory Murphy on
June 6 for EIR.
Mörner: I am a sea-level specialist. There are many good
sea-level people in the world, but let’s put it this way: There’s
no one who’s beaten me. I took my thesis in 1969, devoted to
a large extent to the sea-level problem. From then on, I have
launched most of the new theories, in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s.
I was the one who understood the problem of the gravitational
potential surface, the theory that it changes with time. I’m the
one who studied the rotation of the Earth, how it affected the
redistribution of the oceans’ masses. And so on. And then I
was president of INQUA, an international fraternal associa-
tion, their Commission on Sea-Level Changes and Coastal
Evolution, from 1999 to 2003. And in order to do something
intelligent there, we launched a special international sea-level
research project in the Maldives, because that’s the hottest
spot on Earth for—there are so many variables interacting
there, so it was interesting, and also people had claimed that
the Maldives—about 1,200 small islands—were doomed to
disappear in 50 years, or at most, 100 years. So that was a very
important target.
Then I have had my own research institute at Stockholm
University, which was devoted to something called paleogeo-
physics and geodynamics. It’s primarily a research institute,
but lots of students came, and I have several PhD theses at my
institute, and lots of visiting professors and research scientists
came to learn about sea level. Working in this field, I don’t
think there’s a spot on the Earth I haven’t been in! In the north-
most, Greenland; and in Antarctica; and all around the Earth,
and very much at the coasts. So I have primary data from so
many places, that when I’m speaking, I don’t do it out of igno-
rance, but on the contrary, I know what I’m talking about. And
I have interaction with other scientific branches, because it’s
very important to see the problems not just from one eye, but
from many different aspects. Sometimes you dig up some very
important thing in some geodesic paper which no other geolo-
gist would read. And you must have the time and the courage
to go into the big questions, and I think I have done that.
The last ten years or so, of course, everything has been the
discussion on sea level, which they say is drowning us; in the
early ’90s, I was in Washington giving a paper on how the sea
level is not rising, as they said. That had some echoes around
the world.
Now read on here
www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/2007_20-29/2007-25/pdf/33-37_725.pdf
