Missing the point? (sea level rise)

An article at the Science Codex requests  "Less hyperbole, please: Sea level has been rising and falling for the last 2,500 years". The tone is set with the opening quote from an Israeli researcher:

"Rising and falling sea levels over relatively short periods do not indicate long-term trends. An assessment of hundreds and thousands of years shows that what seems an irregular phenomenon today is in fact nothing new."

And your point is????

Are they seriously suggesting that predictions of future sea-level rise are simple extrapolations of recent sea-level rises? Have they had their heads in the sand?

Are they unaware of the associated rises in global temperature and greenhouse gas concentrations? Are they unaware of the quite plausible causal relationship between greenhouse gas concentrations, global warming, and sea level rise?

I don't know who is responsible for framing the issue in this manner, but this is just more  fodder for all those brain-dead deniers who claim that if some phenomenon can happen in the absence of human intervention, there is no reason to believe that human behavior can contribute to the phenomenon.

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