This could be happening because warmer temperatures increase the carbon dioxide liberated from the ocean and percolated from limestone via increased rain. To complicate things further, other poorly understood variables affect the earth s climate including clouds, ocean currents, orbital tilt, mountains, volcanoes, and even the back ends of cows and termites. Even if the earth is warming, it is not clear that things will be worse. The seas may not rise if increased precipitation dumps more snow in other locations. Moreover, much of the polar ice that is melting already floats, which means it cannot affect the sea level.
Glaciers come and go.
It is self-serving and arrogant to blame these things on human activities. The earth s climate is like a wolf running through the woods. Humans are a flea on this wolf. I cannot believe what they are doing in Juneau. Alaska has one of the highest smoking rates among women in the nation.