{"id":7509,"date":"2025-09-10T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/7509\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:54:16","slug":"theres-no-cataclysmic-rise-in-sea-levels-%e2%94%81-the-european-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/7509\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s No Cataclysmic Rise in Sea Levels \u2501 The European Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Dutch study<\/a>, looking at whether the rising sea levels projected by many scientists are actually materializing, found that in 95% of the locations deemed suitable for study, there was \u201cno statistically significant acceleration of the rate of sea level rise.\u201d<\/p>\n

To make matters worse for environmental activists fond of crying wolf, in the remaining 5% of cases, \u201c(t)he investigation suggests that local, non-climatic phenomena are a plausible cause of the accelerated sea level rise observed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The study, \u201cA Global Perspective on Local Sea Level Changes<\/a>,\u201d revealed that the average sea level rise in 2020 was approximately 1.5 mm per year\u2014equivalent to about 6 inches per century\u2014according to authors Hessel Voortman, a Dutch engineering consultant, and Rob de Vos, an independent researcher. That number is significantly lower than the rate frequently quoted in the media from climate scientists\u20143 to 4 mm per year. The researchers say sea levels were at a low in 1993 and a high in 2020, and that, accounting for these natural fluctuations, no clear sea level rise is detectable.<\/p>\n

This is the first global study of actual sea level rise that is based on real-world data instead of relying on models. Voortman said in an interview<\/a> he was shocked that nobody had done this type of study before. He noted that the study was also unique in that it was conducted entirely without external funding. With over 30 years of experience as a hydraulic engineer, he has worked on flood protection and coastal infrastructure adaptation projects around the globe and in 2023 published a study showing sea levels around the Dutch coast were indeed not rising, contrary to projections.<\/p>\n

The study says the models of the IPCC\u2014the UN\u2019s climate panel\u2014\u201csignificantly overestimate local sea level rise in 2020,\u201d according to a press release. Despite this, Voortman did not dismiss working with models<\/a> but stressed the importance of understanding the difference between them and real-world local studies for practical applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor over a quarter-century the world\u2019s leading climate scientists and news media have warned that human-caused climate change has doubled the rate of sea level rise and is thus putting civilization in grave danger,\u201d American journalist Michael Shellenberger wrote<\/a> after interviewing Voortman. \u201cAll of those claims have been proven false.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Dutch study, looking at whether the rising sea levels projected by many scientists are actually materializing,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-7509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}