Professor Nils-Axel Moerner is a Swedish professor of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics. He has been leading several field expeditions to the Maldives to study sea level changes:
Nils-Axel Mörner was president for the INQUA commission on Sea Level Changes and CoastalEvolution (1999-2003). His research group spent much effort on the question of present-to-future sea level changes. After intensive field studies, deliberation within the commission and discussions at five international meeting, they agreed on a “best estimate” for possible sea level changes by the year 2100. Their estimate was +10 cm ±10 cm. This estimate was later revised at +5 cm ±15 cm. Such changes would imply small to negligible effects. Mörner states: “From our sea level curve we can directly see that such a small rise would pose no threat for the Maldives. Rather, it would be a natural return to the conditions existing from 1790 to 1970; i.e. to the position before the sea level fall in the 1970s. The same non-rising sea level story is recorded for all other areas claimed to be under a flooding already in progress; viz. Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Venice (Mörner, 2007b).
See Nils-Axel Moerner’s trip to the Maldives.
The open letter to President Mohamed Nasheed from the Maldives can be found as a .pdf here.
Möerners Biography:
Head of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics at Stockholm University, Sweden (1991-2005)
President of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution (1999-2003)
Leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project (2000 on)
Chairman of the INTAS project on Geomagnetism and Climate (1997-2003)
Awarded the Golden Condrite of Merit from Algarve University (2008) “for his irreverence and contribution to
our understanding of sea level change”
