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By Kenneth Richard on 18. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterCoastal history analyses increasingly suggest sea levels are lower today than at any time in the last 7000 years – even lower than the 1600s to 1800s. Recently we compared cartology from the 17th to 19th centuries to direct aerial images of coastal positions today. Rather surprisingly, there seemed to be more land area […]
Posted in Little Ice Age, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. May 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterScientists suggest relative sea level changes are well-correlated with natural variability and accelerated sea level rise is a “recurring feature” of what has been observed for over 300 years. Five of six studied regions along the North American Atlantic coast show declining sea level rates (mm/yr) in recent decades. After retreating into the sea […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. May 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterBoth during the last interglacial (~120,000 years ago) and from roughly 2000 to 7000 years ago, relative sea levels were from 6-10 meters to 1-3 meters higher than they are today, respectively. For a list of over 100 other scientific papers indicating sea levels across the world were multiple meters higher when Earth’s CO2 […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterFrom 1993 to 2018, the satellite altimetry sea level changes reveal both positive and negative accelerations, align with oscillatory patterns, and are dominated by internal variability (e.g., PDO, ENSO). The “forced acceleration pattern” assumed to be associated with anthropogenic global warming “has not emerged”. Image Source: Hamlington et al., 2020 Negative or negligible sea […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. January 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn 2019, more than 440 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. Image Source: Collins et al., […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, CO2 Greens the Earth, Cooling/Temperature, Coral Reefs, Glaciers, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Solar Sciences, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. January 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterRapid cooling in the North Atlantic has reversed regional sea level changes and has apparently spread to the Greenland ice sheet. Image Source: Chafik et al. (2019) Despite stressing global sea level rise is worrisome and due to anthropogenic warming, Chafik et al. (2019) report a distinct cooling trend in the North Atlantic that […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. January 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe onslaught of paleoclimate evidence for warmer-than-now Mid-Holocene climates – when the Earth’s sea levels were meters higher than they are today – stormed through 2019. There were 107 scientific papers published this past year indicating today’s warmth isn’t even close to being unusual or unprecedented when compared to the climates of the last […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 9. January 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterThough the media like to tell their audience that man-made climate change is leading to more extreme weather, the data don’t support it. In fact, one could easily argue that Japan’s climate is more agreeable today. By Kirye in Tokyo and Pierre Gosselin No trend in long-term annual precipitation Over the past 100 years, […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Hurricanes/Tornados, Natural Variability, Sea Levels, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 5. December 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterSurprisingly accurate nautical maps created the 17th to 19th centuries strongly suggest coastal land area in both hemispheres were quite similar to today’s. There is even evidence relative sea levels were higher than now back then. Image Source: Etsy.com Globally, coasts have grown since the 1980s Between 1985 and 2015, satellite observations indicate the […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. November 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn a new paper (Mörner, 2019, expanding upon Mörner, 2017), photo evidence confirms sea levels in 5 studied equatorial regions have fallen by about 60 cm since the 17th century…and remained stable since the 1970s. Image(s) Source: Mörner, 2019 Image Source: Mörner, 2017 Another new study (Haryono et al., 2019) of sea level change […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 18. November 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterPaleoclimate evidence shows there is little to no link between atmospheric CO2 concentration and relative sea level. Venice, the treasure of Italy, is a city built on a mud swamp. Consequently, in the last 100 years it has sunk about 25 cm, or 2.5 millimeters per year (Munaretto et al., 2012). The lagoon city […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. November 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAs reported in 4 separately-published papers, scientists have discovered a mechanism whereby islands can build themselves up naturally, thwarting the threat of sea level rise. Tuck et al. (2019) affirm the “implications of island building are profound, as it will offset existing scenarios of dramatic increases in island flooding.” Earlier this year, Duvat (2019) […]
Posted in Coral Reefs, Natural Variability, Sea Levels |
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