In this study, the effects of
sea level rise (
assumed to continue at present, at the time of the study, rates, which the authors noted was likely conservative), wave fetch, wind speed and direction were examined and the resultant erosion rate was estimated for the Western and Eastern
shore of Uppands, Port Isobel and Tangier Island by selecting 10 points along the western and eastern shoreline of all the islands.
Historians once
assumed that the number of wrecks in the deep
sea was negligible because ancient ships must have hugged the coastlines, but in the 1990s Ballard found eight ancient wrecks far from
shore between the islands of Sicily and Sardinia (Foley was Ballard's graduate student at the time).
And their CEO's repeatedly told their stockholders that there was no proof of carbon - driven climate change even as their contractors were building platforms for off -
shore drilling that
assumed sea level increases up to 20 ″ over the 25 year life of said platforms.