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By P Gosselin on 17. April 2026
An article in the German TKP science site titled “Die Malediven sinken nicht” (The Maldives are not sinking) challenges the common mythical narrative that the Maldives are destined to disappear due to rising sea levels caused by climate change. Image taken by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) onboard NASA’s Terra satellite. […]
Posted in Alarmism, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. April 2026
Greenland’s ice mass losses have dramatically decelerated since 2012. According to a new study (Nilsson and Gardner, 2026), from 1992-2023 the ice loss from Greenland ice sheet (GIS) and peripheral glaciers has added a total of only 1.1 cm (11 mm) to global sea levels. This is a sea level contribution rate equivalent of just […]
Posted in Arctic, Cryosphere, Glaciers, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. March 2026
A new sea surface temperature (SST) reconstruction (Pan et al., 2026) uses mollusc fossil evidence to affirm southern Australia’s (Yorke Peninsula) SSTs were 4°C warmer than today (23°C versus 19°C) during both the mid-Holocene (MH, 8000 to 5000 years ago) and Last Interglacial (LIG, 125,000 to 116,000 years ago). Both the MH and LIG had […]
Posted in Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. March 2026
Solway Firth (UK) relative sea levels were 3.25 – 4 m higher than today from ~7000 to 5500 years ago before declining to present over the last few millennia (Hanan et al., 2026). The reconstruction coring sites were located up to ~3 km inland from the modern coast. New research also indicates Western Scotland’s relative […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 5. March 2026
There is nothing unprecedented or even significant about modern warming magnitudes or rates. Antarctic ice cores are routinely used to represent not only global-scale CO2 records, but global temperature records over the last 800,000 years. Interestingly, if we compare modern Antarctica to paleo Antarctica we learn “no continent-scale warming of Antarctic temperature is evident in the […]
Posted in Antarctic, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. January 2026
“[D]uring the last 6 ky, repeated, meter-scale, rapid (<300 y) rises alternated with meter-scale falls…interpreted as global.” – Higgs, 2026 A new study uses excavation evidence (wall ruins, coins, pottery) to suggest sea level rise (SLR) rates reached ~4 m in ~70 yrs (60 mm/year, or 20 times the modern rate of 3 mm/year) from […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. January 2026
Across the globe, vermetid gastropods (shelled snails, or molluscs) are a “critical paleo-sea level indicator” for ancient coastline reconstructions (Angulo et al., 2026). Along the Brazilian coast, vermetid shell radiocarbon ages indicate the relative sea level (RSL) was “more than 2 m above present” between 6000 and 7000 years ago. (The charts shown in the […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. December 2025
Today’s sea levels are the lowest of the last several thousand years. Carbon dating evidence from the elevation of abandoned penguin rookeries (and other proxies) reveal relative sea level (RSL) was ~30 m higher than today across East Antarctica about 8000 years ago (Small et al., 2025). Following that highstand RSL fell rapidly at rates of […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 25. November 2025
Fundamental assumptions in projections of alarming, CO2-induced global warming in the coming decades are undermined by a new long-term energy budget analysis. In a new study scientists have acknowledged the modeled assumptions forecasting nature’s response to the presumed human-driven radiative forcing of ocean heat uptake, thermal expansion, and sea level rise rates do not align […]
Posted in Oceans, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 4. October 2025
Germany’s Klimanachrichten here publishes an article titled “The Disappearing Islands (That Don’t Want to Disappear)” summarizes findings suggesting that the widespread assumption about low-lying islands inevitably sinking due to rising sea levels is too simplistic and detached from reality. Earlier, the media often tried to scoff at and discredit findings from inconvenient sea level experts, […]
Posted in Sea Levels, Stupid Predictions |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. September 2025
The mechanisms driving the meters-higher sea levels a few thousand years ago do not support claims that CO2 is a driver. A comprehensive analysis (Zhang et al., 2025) of the South China Sea region indicates warmer sea water was fundamentally responsible for sea levels that were, on average, 2-3 meters higher (and in some regions […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. September 2025
There has been no sea level acceleration consistent with the alarmist global warming narrative. A new statistical analysis of global sea level rise patterns suggests that, as of 2020, approximately 95% of the 204 PSMSL tide gauges reliably contributing to estimates of global sea level rise show there has been no statistical acceleration in the […]
Posted in IPCC, Sea Levels |
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