Rising Sea Level Over Time

From the Coaches Hot Seat Blog 2013:

As everyone knows by now, because the Chicken Little “the world is coming to and end environmental” crowd could get the mainstream media to cover them if they were taking a piss, the theory behind global warming is that because of the amount of CO2 that the US and other countries have been putting into the atmosphere in the past 100 years or so, that the CO2 along with other “greenhouse gases” is warming the air and the oceans at a constant pace and thus the sea level is rising.  What the Chicken Little crowd conveniently forgets to tell people is that the sea level around the globe has been rising at a fairly constant rate for the last 6,000 years (between 4 inches and foot a century) and in fact has been rising at an almost constant rate for the last 18,000 years.  Take a look at this map from the U.S. Geological Survey of Sea Level Rise Since the Last Glaciation (18,000 years ago) in the San Francisco Bay area:   As you can see, the “beach” in San Francisco 18,000 years ago was about 50 miles out to sea and all of this sea level rise happened at a very constant rate, in fact the same rate the sea level is rising right now, well before Man even considered putting CO2 into the air.  How can that possibly be?  How can Man be responsible for sea level rise today by all of the CO2 we are putting into the air that the Chicken Little crowd claims is warming the oceans and thus is causing the sea level to rise, when the sea level has been rising at a constant rate for 18,000 years?  Confused at how the Chicken Little crowd gets around to blaming all of us for sea level rise?  We are too, but when there is $$$ involved, and that is really what this is “global warming” is really about ($$$), taking money out of our pockets and putting into other people’s pockets, nothing really surprises us in this debate.