The Truth About Sea Levels and Fossil Fuels

The Truth About Sea Levels and Fossil Fuels
Part of the Glacial Ice Sheet that covers about 80 percent of Greenland is seen on July 17, 2013. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
H. Sterling Burnett
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Environmental activists, mainstream media outlets, and many scientists routinely claim governments must take drastic action to prevent rapidly rising seas. They claim unless humans are forced to stop using fossil fuels, low-lying islands and coastal areas will soon be swamped beneath the waves.

H. Sterling Burnett
H. Sterling Burnett
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Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. is a senior fellow on environmental policy at The Heartland Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
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