In this instance the science has been perverted to follow the Administration’s narrative. I am not optimistic that there will be any substantive changes to the Proposed Amendments. The only…
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Measuring and Analysing Sea Levels using Satellites during 2023
One conclusion is that the “accelerations” as calculated are not the harbingers of Doom and Gloom that many Climate Scientists, the BBC and the Guardian Paper portray. These “accelerations” may…
New York State Sea Level Rise: Fantasy as Law
The NY State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) proposes a common source of Sea Level Rise Projections to be used statewide for program planning and decisions making. This sounds…
El Bosque—a village overtaken by rising sea levels?
The last residents of a coastal Mexican town destroyed by climate change — Flooding has destroyed the Mexican town of El Bosque….The first step in looking at this problem is…
30 Years of Measuring and Analysing Sea Levels using Satellites
The release of the Sea Level Data up to Jan 2023 marks 30 years of satellite measurements using the quartet of satellites Topex and Jason 1, 2 and 3. It…
Getting ready for another destructive Atlantic hurricane season?
“… many of the other ingredients for a destructive hurricane season are related to human-caused climate change. Hotter ocean water and hotter air create perfect conditions for hurricanes to form,…
Sea Level Rise Acceleration – An Alternative Hypothesis
Having analysed the NASA Sea Level readings over the last 4 years it has been concluded that the accelerations derived by Nerem et al. are a consequence of the methodology…
Sea Level: Rise and Fall – Slowing Down to Speed Up
We estimate a quadratic model of climate-driven global mean sea level (GMSL) change based on the satellite altimetry record (1993–2020), including a rigorous assessment of the errors in the quadratic…
Sinking Cities and Sea Level Rise
“Coastal cities around the globe are sinking by up to several centimeters per year, on average, satellite observations reveal. The one-two punch of subsiding land and rising seas means that…
Sentinel-6: New International Sea Level Satellite
“The unprecedented accuracy of the sea level measurements provided by this mission ensures not only the continuity of a 30-year data record, but allows improving our understanding of climate change…
Why We Must “Quit Worrying About Uncertainty in Sea Level Projections”
What the world needs is accurate actionable local data on their own local relative sea level rise and its contributing components so that they can come up with sensible no-regrets…
Ocean Acidification Effects Research in Doubt
“Munday’s and Dixson’s data on chemical signal preference had a “0 out of 10,000” chance of being real. They left it to the reader to decide what to think about…
Sea Level & the Jersey Shore: Follow-up
Government is hard – and as Mark Twain quipped – expensive. “I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures [and legislators – kh] that…
Sea Level and the Jersey Shore
The Jersey Shore does not need to look to the future to see pending disaster – these communities are already at existential risk from the sea levels of today.
Do Your Own Research?
Both of these essays are valuable – and contain truths we need to be aware of and accept. But they also represent the problem we see all across human endeavors…
SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall – Part 5: Bending the Trend
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 9 February 2020 USA Today shouts: “Rise in sea levels is accelerating along U.S. coasts, report warns”. Many other media outlets have repeated the…
Jakarta is not an Exemplar of Sea Level Rise
Brief Note by Kip Hansen — 26 January 2020 Ted Nordhaus has an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal titled “Ignore the Fake Climate Debate”. [ It may…
Historical European Sea Level Records
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen I have been working on another sea level related essay and in the process stumbled upon a paper published in 1990 by the Permanent…
Is Historic Newport, RI Threatened by Sea Level Rise?
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The New York Times has treated its readers to an in-depth piece in the Science section with the provocative title: ‘We Cannot Save Everything’:…
Researchers: Never Let the Press Office Quote You
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen There are many ways that today’s researchers can have their work misrepresented in the press, often in embarrassing ways. The most common origin of…
Swallowed Islands: Getting Sea Level Rise Out of Variability
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Damien Cave, the NY Times Australia bureau chief, writes yet another heart-rending story with great personal touches about how the Solomon Islands are being…
Errorless Global Mean Sea Level Rise
Brief Comment by Kip Hansen Have you ever noticed that whenever NASA or NOAA presents a graph of satellite-era Global Mean Sea Level rise, there are no error bars? …
NOAA — Straight Talk on Sea Level Rise
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has some rather useful features on its web site. One of these is the Tides and Currents which…
SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall – Part 4a – Getting Even More of a Rise Out of Nothing
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen (h/t Steve Case and Dave Burton) Prologue: I have been writing recently about Sea Level Rise, both as particular local examples ( Guam, Canton,…