Claim: Global warming made sea levels FALL in 2010 and 2011
'In recent times (2010 and 2011, to be precise) phenomena driven by human carbon emissions have actually caused world sea levels to fall.' -- According to a statement issued yesterday by the US National Science Foundation: '
For an 18-month period beginning in 2010, the oceans mysteriously dropped by about seven millimeters.' -- The research is due to be published next month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters -- 'Essentially, an awful lot of the world's oceans turned into clouds and then fell on Australia - and stayed there.'