Tag Archives: Sea level

Australian sea level data highly exaggerated, only 5 inches by 2100

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

In a new analysis published in Volume 8 Issue 2 of Environmental Science Dr. Nils-Axel Morner suggests global sea levels will rise only about 5 inches by the year 2100. Axel Morner concludes that Australian government claims of a 1 … Continue reading →

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Sea level rate of rise shown to be partially a product of adjustments

Posted on January 24, 2013 by

People send me stuff. Here we have another case of value added adjustments that increase the slope, much like temperature. This email forwarded from Steve Case reads as follows: The University of Colorado’s Sea Level Research Group just published the … Continue reading →

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New paper in GRL shows that a 60-year oscillation in the global tide gauge sea level record has been discovered

Posted on November 5, 2012 by

Results suggest that global mean sea level may also be affected, though not yet fully confirmed. Hot off the heels of an admission by NASA JPL that the satellite derived sea level data is “spurious” due to a lack of … Continue reading →

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Finally: JPL intends to get a GRASP on accurate sea level and ice measurements

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

A climate science bombshell: New proposal from NASA JPL admits to “spurious” errors in current satellite based sea level and ice altimetry, calls for new space platform to fix the problem. People send me stuff. Today it is a PowerPoint … Continue reading →

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F10.7 Flux, Sea Level and the Holocene

Posted on September 15, 2012 by

Guest post by David Archibald George Orwell said,” He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.” Some amongst us have used that as an instruction manual and have attempted to create confusion … Continue reading →

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Sea Level Acceleration: Not so Fast Recently

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

By Dr. Patrick Michaels from World Climate Report Sea level rise is a topic that we frequently focus on because of all the gross environmental alterations which may result from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, it is perhaps the only one … Continue reading →

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Part 2 of “On Sallenger et al (2012) – Hotspot of Accelerated Sea Level Rise on the Atlantic Coast of North America”

Posted on July 1, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale This is a follow-up to my recent post On Sallenger et al (2012) – Hotspot of Accelerated Sea Level Rise on the Atlantic Coast of North America. It confirms a comment I made there and … Continue reading →

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A refreshing change on sea level policy – use historical data rather than model projections

Posted on June 13, 2012 by

An update to what we reported here yesterday  – Science vs AGW Advocacy in North Carolina, from HamptonRoads.com: N.C. Senate approves sea level calculation bill The North Carolina Senate has approved a bill that ignores scientists’ warnings of rising sea … Continue reading →

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Historical Imagery of Greenland Glaciers Lessens Sea Level Rise Alarm

Posted on June 4, 2012 by

By Pat Michaels via World Climate Report A new study using historical images of glaciers in southeast Greenland to investigate glacier response to climate changes suggests that the recently observed acceleration of ice loss from Greenland may not be a … Continue reading →

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Is Sea Level Rise Accelerating?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

Guest post by Paul Homewood     It is generally accepted that sea levels increased during the 20thC at a rate of about 185mm or about 7”. Furthermore studies suggest that there was no acceleration in this rate during that … Continue reading →

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Back-testing the Solar – Sea Level Relationship

Posted on April 22, 2012 by

Guest post by David Archibald This is a little bit amusing. In February, I had a post on the solar – sea level relationship which quantified the sea level fall to come to the end of Solar Cycle 25: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/03/quantifying-sea-level-fall/ … Continue reading →

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Ice capades – Some Himalayan Glaciers Growing, study suggests a negative sea level rise adjustment

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

I wonder if Rajenda Pachauri will call this “voodoo science“? A previous study by the UC Santa Barbara found that the Karakoram glaciers are mostly stagnating, possibly due to debris, the author said then that: “There is no ‘stereotypical’ Himalayan glacier,” … Continue reading →

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Envisat’s satellite failure launches mysteries

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

I’ve been watching with interest and concern some of Steve Goddard’s postings on Envisat on the abrupt changes in their recent sea level data. To me, something didn’t seem quite right, and I expressed concerns privately along those lines that … Continue reading →

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Fundamental questions on Isostasy and Mean Sea-Level

Posted on March 3, 2012 by

Guest post by Andi Cockroft Firstly, let me declare that I am not a current student of Geology or Geophysics. I studied Mathematics, Computer Science and Geology at University way back in the 60’s and I have focused my entire … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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