I am a amateur climate scientist trying to prove that ocean sea-level rise is caused primarily by humans increasing the amount of nourishment sand, garbage and sewage in the ocean as well as the creation of artificial islands and developing countries increasing their number of ships upon the ocean surface, and not 'climate change', where the earth uses el nino as a earth-space heat exchange portal to release excess heat from earth to maintain equilibrium. Please join me in educating the world on the tangible negative affect of climate change (sea-level rise), and what causes it, and what humans can do to clean up the oceans and their waste disposal processes.
Numbers to support my theory, as requested:1) "Worldwide erosion of coastal regions causes major changes in beach profiles. Coastal erosion contributes approximately 0.25x109 tons per year of sediment to the oceans.""The United States has 2.5 more (beach nourishment) projects per year than all of the European countries put together.""Table II-1 (from the pdf linked to below:) Summary of beach nourishment in European Countries (Adapted from Hamm et. al., 2002)"(Table above shows total fill volume of nourishment of 340 million s of m ^ 3 just of a few European countries.Economies of developing nations have developed greatly since 2002, requiring more beach nourishment for their tourism industries from those nations.)- http://ie.unc.edu/files/2016/03/MCFSBeachNourishmentCapstone.pdf2) Garbage:"8 million tons of plastic dumped in the oceans each year."- http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150212-ocean-debris-plastic-garbage-patches-science/3) Sewage:"180 million tons of toxic waste dumped in earth's waters each year."http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/over_180m_tons_of_toxic_waste_dumped_into_worlds_oceans_rivers_and_lakes_ea/"Cruise ships dump 1 billion gallons of sewage into the ocean each year."- http://qz.com/308970/cruise-ships-dump-1-billion-tons-of-sewage-into-the-ocean-every-year/4) China, Vietnam etc. Island Building:"Though China’s airstrips expand the country’s ability to operate in the South China Sea, they are not the first in the region — every other country that occupies the Spratlys already operates an airstrip as well.Islands and reefs that have undergone recent construction are shown with a white ring. Colored rings show whether the feature is occupied by China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam or Taiwan.Sources: C.I.A., NASA, China Maritime Safety AdministrationVietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan have also expanded islands in the Spratlys, but at a much smaller scale than China’s efforts."- http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/world/asia/what-china-has-been-building-in-the-south-china-sea-2016.html"Other countries in the region are also undertaking, on a far smaller scale, similar operations.[14] The U.S. Pentagon's estimates in 2015 for the amount of reclaimed land was: China (2,900 acres), Vietnam (80 acres), Malaysia (70 acres), the Philippines (14 acres) and Taiwan (8 acres).[15]"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_wall_of_sandConclusion: It took me a few minutes to compile the sources herein. People in the environmental industry with data access, educational merit and ability to prove my theory correct could easily do so, because the data included herein only scratches the surface of what is available to a civikian like myself with a very credible theory. If runaway 'climate change' were true, "the day after tomorrow" scenerio would have happened by now. The world is waiting for cities to be underwater and they may be, just depends on how much humans throw into the oceans. El nino in the pacific ocean acts as a mass heat release from earth into space, and while el nino may be strong, an increase in major hurricanes has not occurred in the atlantic as a result of the 'la nina' that follows. If anything, more heat and more el ninos lead to less atlantic hurricanes and more pacific hurricanes. That is the climate equilibrium that earth has achieved. This year was la nina in the atlantic, meaning more hurricanes usually, and still, the U.S. got through it pretty good so far.