{"id":325,"date":"2010-09-18T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T03:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/physicsstop\/2010\/09\/18\/seal_level_rises\/"},"modified":"2010-09-18T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T03:42:08","slug":"seal-level-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/physicsstop\/2010\/09\/18\/seal-level-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Seal level rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email yesterday alerting me to an upcoming news brief on the implications of seal level rise as a result of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>A rise in seal level is something that I hadn&#8217;t thought of before. I&#8217;m not sure whether we are talking about specific species of seal, like the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Zealand_Fur_Seal\">New Zealand fur seal<\/a>, or just seals in general.&nbsp; And by level, do we mean population, or do we mean height above current sea level &#8211; i.e. would a large enough rise in seal level mean that they started <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10653771\">taking up residence in Auckland&#8217;s suburbs<\/a> in more significant numbers?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was just an uncannily interesting typo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email yesterday alerting me to an upcoming news brief on the implications of seal level rise as a result of climate change. A rise in seal level is something that I hadn&#8217;t thought of before. 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