By P Gosselin on 7. March 2023
Despite what we hear from the media and climate activists, hard scientific findings show that Pacific and Indian Ocean island nations are doing just fine…not at all sinking away. Sea level rise alarmists are hip deep in exaggeration. Image: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. IPCC high-end sea level predictions for 2100 are “highly erroneous”. […]
Posted in Alarmism, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. March 2023
Most of the 1100 Pacific and Indian Ocean islands have been growing, not shrinking in size, in the last half century. Activists convinced humans are able to exert fundamental control over ocean dynamics claim the rates of sea level rise and modern climate change are so rapid and unprecedented that modern changes are dramatically affecting […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. February 2023
More evidence emerges that modern rates of sea level rise are approximately 20-50 times slower than natural rising rates occurring during deglaciations. In tropical areas coral reef fossils form terraces, or flat surfaces bordered by ascending sloping surfaces. Terraces are formed at or near sea level, so their relative geological presence can be interpreted as […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. February 2023
Scientists have combined remote sensing data with machine learning to determine the Venice coast “is stable, or mainly subjected to accretion in the period 2015-2019.” Venice has been sinking into the sea (subsidence) at a rate of ~24 cm per century since the 19th century. Fortunately, in recent decades the regional sea level rise has rapidly […]
Posted in Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. January 2023
Sea level changes along the Pacific coast have not been cooperating with an alarmist narrative. New research reveals sea level rise has decelerated from ~5 mm/yr from the 1970s to 1990s down to about 1.5 mm/yr since the late 1990s along the Peruvian coast. Further, the entire North America Pacific coast has undergone “statistically significant […]
Posted in Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. October 2022
During the much-warmer-than-today Mid-Holocene, when CO2 concentrations lingered around 265 ppm, sea levels were multiple meters higher than they are now. From about 5000 to 7000 years ago, when Earth was several degrees warmer than it is today, there was less water locked up on land as ice. Consequently, relative sea levels were much higher […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. June 2022
Several new and recent studies have affirmed that the waters surrounding South America – from Peru to Chile to Argentina to Brazil – were several degrees warmer and sea levels multiple meters higher than today until the Little Ice Age centuries. A new study suggests ~4,000 to 5,000 years ago coastal Argentina’s sea surface temperatures […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. May 2022
A new study (Gao et al., 2022) suggests Antarctica’s sea levels (Ross Sea) were more than 16 meters higher than today ~5,000 years ago and still 5.5 meters higher ~3,000 years ago. Penguins thrived with the warmer climate and diminished sea ice. Image Source: Gao et al., 2022 “Since 1.5 kyr BP, with further contraction […]
Posted in Antarctic, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. March 2022
During the Medieval Warm Period surface temperatures were 1-1.3°C warmer and sea levels 1 meter higher in the southern Far East Russia study region. Another new study (Lyashchevskaya et al., 2022) casts doubt on the claims of an unprecedentedly warm modern climate. Even though the atmospheric CO2 levels were a “safe” 265 ppm, the Primorye […]
Posted in Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 27. February 2022
Scientists find that on average, motion of continents is currently upward. German climate science critical site Die kalte Sonne here reports on a recent study by Hammond et al (2021) titled: “GPS Imaging of Global Vertical Land Motion for Studies of Sea Level Rise“. The study examined the rates and patterns of vertical land motion […]
Posted in Glaciers, Sea Levels, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. February 2022
Corals thrive in multiple-degrees-warmer-than-today waters and their growth is stunted in cooler environments. The warnings peddled by climate alarmists often characterize Earth’s 500 billion corals as critically endangered by modern global warming. But the science itself says corals have been and continue thriving in the Current Warm Period – just as they have in past […]
Posted in Coral Reefs, Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. February 2022
In 2021, several hundred more scientific papers were published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media sources. These scientific papers affirm the position […]
Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Coral Reefs, Drought and Deserts, Fire, Flood, Glaciers, Hockey Team, Medieval Warm Period, Models, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Temperature Bias/Urbanization, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
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