Category Archives: sea level

Flanders fearful flooded fields

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

From the University of British Columbia,  David Flanders is trying to scare Canadians over sea level rise. Only one problem, the math doesn’t work. Preparing for the flood: Visualizations help communities plan for sea-level rise Researchers at the University of … Continue reading →

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Sea level still not cooperating with predictions

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

The university of Colorado has recently updated their sea level graph from the TOPEX satellite data. The 60 day smoothed trend is still stalled and shows no rise over what was seen since the peak in mid 2010: Data Raw … Continue reading →

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The Maldives are sinking – and we aren’t talking about sea level

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

Whoo boy. Nutso times in the Maldives. I guess the president wasn’t bringing in enough cargo cult money for the sea level “send us money we’re sinking” scam being perpetrated on the world. I said previously that Mohamed Nasheed’s claims … Continue reading →

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A Japanese Puzzle

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A reader who posts under the name “tokyoboy” sent a link to a very interesting sea level record from the Japanese Meteorological Agency. It covers the period 1906–2010, and when I first saw it I … Continue reading →

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Hansen’s Sea Shell Game

Posted on January 29, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an old con game that has been played on the suckers for hundreds and hundreds of years. It is done in various forms, with various objects, under various names—three card monty, the shell game, … Continue reading →

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Hiding the decline down under – inconvenient papers censored

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

UPDATE: An Australian science paper I located from 1990 says that century scale sea level trends are 1-1.1 mm per year, and Sydney was 0.54 mm/ year. See below. UPDATE2: a graph of the current SLR for Sydney is now … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, post-normal science, sea level | 142 Comments

The 500 year FUD about sea levels

Posted on October 18, 2011 by

Ah, once again in response to a fearmongering press release, we see the obligatory “NYC is flooded” photoshop trick. But guess what? I’ve already debunked that photo as impossible for the time frame. More on that later after we do … Continue reading →

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The Maldives can’t take a joke

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

But they can sure act like one: From the BBC: Maldives government complains of spoof atlas omission The government of the Maldives has complained after the London Daily Telegraph website carried a satirical blog post saying the island nation is … Continue reading →

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NASA notes sea level is falling in press release – but calls it a “Pothole on Road to Higher Seas”

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

From the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab NASA Satellites Detect Pothole on Road to Higher Seas An Update from NASA’s Sea Level Sentinels: Like mercury in a thermometer, ocean waters expand as they warm. This, along with melting glaciers and ice … Continue reading →

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Another sea level rise fallacy falls short

Posted on August 19, 2011 by

Heat-driven expansion not a major source of sea level rise With the power to drown low-lying nations, destroy infrastructure, and seriously affect sensitive coastal ecosystems, sea level rise may be one of the most readily apparent consequences of global warming … Continue reading →

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Tisdale on 2011 sea level changes

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

1ST Quarter 2011 Sea Level Anomaly Update And An Initial Look At The Impacts Of ENSO On Global Sea Level Guest post by Bob Tisdale It’s been more than two years since my last Sea Level anomaly update using the data … Continue reading →

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The tides, they are a changin!

Posted on August 2, 2011 by

From Oregon State University: Ancient tides different from today – some dramatically higher CORVALLIS, Ore. – The ebb and flow of the ocean tides, generally thought to be one of the most predictable forces on Earth, are actually quite variable … Continue reading →

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What do sea measurements reveal about Earth’s temperature trend?

Posted on July 31, 2011 by

From the AGU highlights Despite the fact that average temperatures on land have been increasing from year to year, globally averaged surface temperatures from 2000 to 2010 have shown only moderate warming. This is because sea surface temperatures over the … Continue reading →

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Quote of the week: from the reductio ad absurdum file

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

This story is about why laws bowing to sea level worries will make signs like this at left more common in one Australian town. I’ve seen stupidity from local city governments before, but this one takes the cake. Residents of … Continue reading →

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The battle over sea level in JCR

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

John Droz writes in with this: A few months ago a widely-publicized article by Houston and Dean was published in the Journal of Coastal Research (and on your site), noting that although sea-level is rising; the tide gauge data does not show any increased … Continue reading →

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Overpeck says 3 feet, real world sea level data says no way

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

From high and dry  University of Arizona, home of the world famous parking lot USHCN weather station, we have word via Eurekalert that a simulation says it will be bad as “sea levels are expected to rise by up to … Continue reading →

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Contradictory Studies – IPCC Struggling to Pinpoint Rising Sea Levels

Posted on July 16, 2011 by

Story submitted by WUWT reader Mark B …the estimates currently differ by almost five meters (16.5 feet). The United Nations’ forecast of how quickly global sea levels will rise this century is vital in determining how much money might be … Continue reading →

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Mann’s new sea level hockey stick paper

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

WUWT readers may recall yesterday where Dr. Mann was so eager to list this paper on his resume/CV, he broke the embargo set for 15:00 EST June 20th, today, at which time this blog post appears. As much as this … Continue reading →

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Mike Mann’s new sea level hockey stick

Posted on June 19, 2011 by

Tomorrow at 15:00 EST an embargo will be lifted for a new paper to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. I have a copy, given to me by a media colleague and I intend to … Continue reading →

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New sea level dataset now available – still flat

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

NEW NODC DATASET: THERMOSTERIC SEA LEVEL ANOMALIES Posted by Bob Tisdale Just a quick one-graph post. The NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) has added Thermosteric Sea Level Anomaly data to its GLOBAL OCEAN HEAT CONTENT webpage. The NODC describes the … Continue reading →

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NYC: denying the sea and Hansen’s sea level predictions

Posted on May 17, 2011 by

Reader John Smith writes in with this interesting photo essay. Dear Anthony – Back in November 2010 you did a post ( Freaking out about NYC sea level rise is easy to do when you don’t pay attention to history) about … Continue reading →

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New sea level page from University of Colorado now up

Posted on May 5, 2011 by

As we surmised in earlier posts, the crozon.colorado.edu website was a test run. Here’s the newest graph from the revised http://sealevel.colorado.edu/ Updated: 2011-05-05 They write about the update:

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More Arctic & sea level “worse than we thought” scare stories

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

Yet, still the data doesn’t support it. As I reported two days ago, the sea level threat just isn’t there. Oh noes! Sea level rising three times faster than expected (again) and we’ve heard it before, right before the 2009 Copenhagen … Continue reading →

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Oh noes! Sea level rising three times faster than expected (again)

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

UPDATE: The serial regurgitation has started. See the end of the article. Somehow, I just can’t get past the picture of the guy in the beret who seems to be saying to the cameraman “Look the island! It is disappearing … Continue reading →

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Update on the CU sea level page status

Posted on April 25, 2011 by

Things are changing with global sea level data reporting. As I mentioned in my post April 6th: What’s delaying UC sea level data from being updated? As you can see in the graph above, the data has not been updated since … Continue reading →

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