Everybody Panic?
Let’s look at that article
By the end of the century, rising sea levels could push powerful seasonal waves into Easter Island’s 15 iconic moai statues, according to a new study published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage. About 50 other cultural sites in the area are also at risk from flooding.
“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant threat.”
You know what’s missing from the article? Data. Anything saying how much sea rise there is. So, let’s go to the NOAA website, and see that the short term gauge, 1970 to 2020, shows a whopping 0.08mm a year rise, “equivalent to a change of 0.03 feet in 100 years”. This is what they are freaking out about in the real world.
In the unhinged cultist world paper we get
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects sea level in Rapa Nui to reach 0.32–0.70 m to 0.48–0.94 m relative to a 1995–2014 baseline by the end of the century under the intermediate and very-high greenhouse gas emission pathways (SSP2–4.5 and SSP5–8.5, respectively)
Which is not supported by ANY actual factual, observed data.
Typical. Doctoral student needs to get something published to get degree and goes for low hanging fruit. Making predictions about the distant future which can never be proven wrong. And reaching a conclusion that every PHD in the “School of Earth Science” already agrees with. Thanks for contributing to “science”.
No doubt a university sponsored, taxpayer funded vacation to Easter Island for “research” was included.
Of course that is the average sea level rise. Should we be more concerned about the average in crease? The mean? Or the extreme ?
And the same with “average” temp increases?
Mr teach is mistaken typing:
Sea level rise continues and the rate of rise increasing!
Of course, this was from NASA in 2024, so you “MAGA scientists” will claim it’s fraudulent!!
No doubt, Mr trump will fire the scientists responsible. Might he hire Anthony Watts or Steve Milloy to doctor the data?
https://sealevel.nasa.gov/news/282/nasa-analysis-shows-unexpected-amount-of-sea-level-rise-in-2024/
https://themoderatevoice.com/have-humans-averted-another-ice-age/