Not only has data been manipulated, but even without the padding, the predictions of US-flooded coastlines are facetious.
The research center padding this data was caught red-handed, has admitted it, and has a non-global-warming explanation:
Steve Nerem, the director of the widely relied-upon research center said that his group padded the 0.3 millimeters per year to the actual sea level measurements because land masses, still rebounding from the ice age, are rising and increasing the amount of water that oceans can hold.
"We have to account for the fact the ocean basins are actually getting slightly bigger -- water volume is expanding," he said, a phenomenon they cal glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA).
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