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 |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. August 2025
New research from Indonesia indicates that from about 10,000 to 6000 years ago, when the ocean was warmer than today, coral reef growth was rapid, averaging ~6 mm per year. Sea levels rose rapidly from the Early to Mid Holocene in this region, as they were up to 2 m higher than today 6000 years […]
Posted in Coral Reefs, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. July 2025
The narrative that says relative sea level changes are driven by variations in atmospheric CO2 concentrations has taken another hit. Before relative sea level (RSL) declined to its present position over the last millennium, Africa’s Atlantic coast RSL ranged anywhere from 0.8 to 4 meters higher than today between 5000 and 1700 years ago (Vacchi […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. June 2025
Another day, another new study has sea levels 2.5 to 3.2 m higher than present from 7000 to 6000 years ago. This one is from the Arabian Sea (Oman). Embedded mollusc carbonate deposits dated to the Mid-Holocene have been located far inland from today’s shoreline, documenting the meters-higher relative sea levels at that time. Sea […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. June 2025
The evidence for a much warmer Mid-Holocene keeps accumulating. According to a recent paleoclimate study, today’s Gahai Lake (China) reconstructed surface sediment warm season temperature is 9.4°C. This is similar to the region’s documented meteorological station temperatures (8.8°C, May-September). The reconstruction’s average Gahai Lake sediment warm season temperatures dating to 8000 to 3500 years ago […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. May 2025
Yet another new study affirms sea levels were meters higher than today on the Bohai Sea coast during the Mid-Holocene before declining to today’s levels over the last few millennia. The Earth was less glaciated at this time, or from 9000 to 4000 years ago, meaning there was less water locked up on land as […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 3. April 2025
Coral reefs expand and thrive as sea levels rise, whereas they undergo millennia of growth hiatuses and “turn-off” or “mass mortality” phases when sea levels fall. According to a new global sea level reconstruction (Feldman et al., 2025), global sea levels were meters higher than today 7000 to 5000 years ago. Global sea levels fell […]
Posted in Coral Reefs, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. February 2025
In a region of the world where tide gauges are not compromised by land subsidence or uplift, sea levels have not been observed to be rising since measurements began in 1894. According to a new study, when sea levels rise it usually has more to do with declining land movement (subsidence) or 20- to 60-year […]
Posted in Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. January 2025
Fifteen more new studies published in 2024 document meters-higher sea levels across the world during the Mid-Holocene, when CO2 hovered near 260 ppm. There were 45 studies published from 2022 to 2024 indicating sea levels were approximately 2 to 3 meters higher across the world about 7000 to 4000 years ago before declining to today’s […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 11. December 2024
15 years ago, to illustrate its own demise due to the rising sea, the government of the Maldives once held a publicity stunt cabinet meeting underwater. Today, however, new airports are being built in the island state. Where’s the doom? Hat-tip: EIKE Similarly, is the story of the demise of the South Sea islands due […]
Posted in Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. November 2024
Another alarmist sea level rise/coastal flooding narrative collapses under the weight of observational evidence. In 1989, the year the U.N. assembled what was to become the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a “senior U.N. environmental official” warned that world leaders, or politicians, needed to enact policies to “solve the greenhouse effect” by the year […]
Posted in Alarmism, Sea Levels |
By P Gosselin on 9. November 2024
The paper appearing in Nature “An assessment of whether long-term global changes in waves and storm surges have impacted global coastlines” emerges with good news: The coasts of the world’s oceans are stable. Al Gore doesn’t have to worry about his beachfront home. Germany’s European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) here presents its newest […]
Posted in Sea Levels |
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