On Sunday’s I usually like to wait till the afternoon to post another article, what with the Patriotic Pinup post. However, I ran across a really silly doom and gloom Warmist article over at Tom Nelson’s spot, which is truly idiotic and scaremongering, pushed by the AFP
New York at risk from rising sea levels
The sea level on a stretch of the US Atlantic coast that features the cities of New York, Norfolk and Boston is rising up to four times faster than the global average, a report said on Sunday.
This increases the flood risk for one of the world’s most densely-populated coastal areas and threatens wetland habitats, said a study reported in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Since about 1990, the sea level along the 1,000-kilometre “hotspot†zone has risen by two to 3.7 millimetres per year.
The global rise over the same period was between 0.6 and one millimetre per year, said the study by the US Geological Survey (USGS).
If global temperatures continue to rise, the sea level on this portion of the coast by 2100 could rise up to 30 centimetres over and above the one-metre global surge projected by scientists, it added.
Everybody panic!!!!!!1!!!!!! Oh, wait, science occurs elsewhere via actual data, rather than hysterical ranting and prognostication (click the “read more”)
You can see the bigger size image at the link, which includes the following text
The mean sea level trend is 2.77 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence interval of +/- 0.09 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from 1856 to 2006 which is equivalent to a change of 0.91 feet in 100 years.
2.77mm a year as an average. How big is that? (image from here)
That little fuel cell is 3mm. Are you freaking out about sea rise now? For reference, your hair can grow anywhere from 6-10 centimeters a year. That’s 60-100 millimeters. Perspective.
And the rise is well within the norms for a warm period. Average rise over the last 7,000 years is 6-8 inches, which includes when it slows, stops, or goes down during the cool periods. What that graph shows in no acceleration of sea rise at The Battery, despite changing the method of obtaining data from gauges to satellites.
What the graph further shows is that the “two to 3.7 millimetres per year” being positioned as out of the norm is anything but abnormal, going all the way back the late 1850’s. Looking at the NOAA data for the US, you can find negligible up to 6+mm a year. Why? Shouldn’t sea rise be pretty much the same? Unless there is …… some other force at play.
Kings Point shows 2.35mm a year. Montauk shows 2.78mm a year. Much of the area from NJ up through Connecticut and Rhode Island show slightly more to slightly less. Your thoughts, Captain?
