sea level, Tag

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 “swallowed by the sea”.  His...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A study published by Computer Science Professor Paul Barford claims that critical parts of the Internet will be submerged under rising seas in the next 15 years...

Collapse of Larsen C would add up to 2.5 mm to sea level by 2100 From the EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCES UNION New study puts a figure on sea-level rise following Antarctic ice shelves’ collapse An international team of scientists...

We’ll need to mitigate and adapt to global warming to avoid massive costs from sea level rise

Guest essay by Albert Parker Today I was informed of an alarmist claim about the sea levels of Perth, Western Australia, Australia. It started with this story: “In the next eight years our water level is going to increase...

Dr Roy Spencer writes: There is a continuing debate over sea level rise, especially how much will occur in the future. The most annoying part of the news media reporting on the issue is that they imply sea level rise is all...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Since publishing my last two posts here and here on the Church and White (“C&W”) 2011 sea level dataset, some folks have queried why I didn’t use the Church and White...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Gavin Schmidt, who I am given to understand is a good computer programmer, is one of the principals at the incongruously named website “RealClimate”...

There is nothing we can do about it, except to build dikes and sea walls a little bit higher. By Fred Singer, WSJ, May 15, 2018 Of all known and imagined consequences of climate change, many people fear sea-level rise most....

A tide gauge record must always start about the time of low ENSO waters and possibly include a datum shift Guest essay by Albert Parker In addition to the case of Aden, discussed in Parker & Ollier (2017) and Parker &...

Holocene Sea Levels were 2 Meters Higher  1. Are Modern ‘Anthropogenic’ Sea Levels Rising At An Unprecedented Rate?  No. Despite the surge in CO2 concentrations since 1900, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

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?  There are no Confidence Intervals?  There is no Uncertainty...

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 is part of its Center for Operational Oceanographic...

News Analysis by Kip Hansen   Jean Lafitte, Louisiana, is situated at two feet above sea level and about ten miles south of New Orleans.   It has the misfortune to sit just outside of the protective system dykes and...

Guest essay by Andi Cockroft Firstly let me say that I am not one of the most technical writers you will see here. I regard myself pretty much as a layman despite studying Geology, Mathematics and Computer Science at University....