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Experts issue warning about looming threat to historic city: ‘It’s quite frightening’

Sea-level rise is threatening a historic city in England, with projections indicating significant flooding risks for low-lying areas within the foreseeable future.

As reported by Bristol 24/7, the city of Bristol, England, is already bracing for the impacts of continued sea-level rise. Not only will the encroaching waters threaten prominent industries and leisure activities, but a large portion of the city’s population may have to dramatically alter their lives.

“It’s quite frightening,” environment committee chair and Green councillor Martin Fodor said.

In 2024, Bristol took the brunt of a couple of severe storms, resulting in significant flooding and damaged property. Heavy rains and strong winds from storms Henk and Bert caused mass power outages and major disruptions across England.

In a recent study from the World Meteorological Organization, researchers noted that 2024 saw a global mean near-surface temperature of 1.55 ± 0.13 °C above the 1850-1900 average. The increase in temperatures is now increasing the risk of extreme weather events, such as stronger storms and more devastating floods.

“Data for 2024 show that our oceans continued to warm, and sea levels continued to rise. The frozen parts of Earth’s surface, known as the cryosphere, are melting at an alarming rate: Glaciers continue to retreat, and Antarctic sea ice reached its second-lowest extent ever recorded. Meanwhile, extreme weather continues to have devastating consequences around the world,” WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo said in a press release.

Storms and flooding have always happened, and always will. As far as sea level rise goes, I could use Fair Use laws and excerpt the entire article to highlight the point that nowhere within this article, reproduced at Yahoo News from The Cool Down has any data on how much the sea is actually rising in the Bristol, UK area! None!

Nor does that original cited article from Bristol 24/7. Having actual data on how much the sea is rising would be rather important, would it not, to understand any potential doom? The average height of Bristol above sea level is 36 feet, though, you can see from the topographic map where it is low lying with connections to the Bristol Channel, but, really, not much danger at all.

There’s, surprisingly, no actual gauges truly measuring the Bristol Sea area. I would have thought there would at least be something for Cardiff or Swansea. The closest is Newlyn, which is 1.94, .64 feet of sea rise per 100 years.  Newlyn is 1.94mm, gets you .64 per 100 years. Holyhead, a bit further up the west coast of the UK,  shows 2.36mm a year, equivalent to .77 feet of sea rise per 100 years. In fact, all the gauges for the UK, which, in fairness, have either been shut down or the data is no longer being shared with NOAA (I have a feeling that NOAA stopped bothering in 2022, seeing the same stop in 2022 for around the world), show less than one foot per 100 years, some way less, and a typical Holocene warm period should see at least 1 foot, if not more. All we’re really seeing elsewhere are “projections” but no base data.

Regardless, we see from the article that the climate cult is shady as fuck, failing to provide any true data, just fearmongering.