{"id":141150,"date":"2025-09-08T07:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141150\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T07:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:13:07","slug":"rising-sea-hysteria-debunked-but-the-climate-change-cult-wont-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141150\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising-sea hysteria debunked \u2014 but the ‘climate-change’ cult won’t care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another much-predicted climate-change catastrophe turns out to be baseless: Worldwide sea levels are not rising <\/a>any faster than a century ago.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t mean climate change isn\u2019t happening, nor that particular locales don\u2019t face a rising-seas problem \u2014 but it does mean no apocalypse is coming unless the whole world takes drastic action to prevent it. <\/p>\n

For decades, complex climate-change models have indicated global sea levels to be rising at twice or more the historic level, but until now no scientists had bothered checking that against actual observed reality.<\/p>\n

Dutch engineer Hessel Voortman and researcher Rob de Vos finally did the work; their peer-reviewed study in The Journal of Marine Science and Engineering<\/a>, \u201cA Global Perspective on Local Sea Level Changes,\u201d shows the models have gotten it completely wrong.<\/p>\n

They reviewed actual data (on an average of a century of observations) at 150,000 coastal locations across the planet to determine that sea-level rise this century will likely be about six inches, the same as last century.<\/p>\n

The models, which extrapolated from observations in the Antarctic only, plus a host of assumptions about how the oceans respond to rising global temperatures, suggested sea levels increasing by one foot to three feet by 2100.<\/p>\n

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Indeed, Princeton University\u2019s Michael Oppenheimer predicted in 2019 that sea levels would rise by more than 34 inches by century\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

The Dutch researchers \u201cfirst-ever global study of sea level rise\u201d refute those claims \u2014 and raise the huge question of why no one else had bothered to test the predictions. <\/p>\n

As of 2020, they found, the worldwide rise is only around 1.5 millimeters per year \u2014 far less than the 3mm to 4 mm a year routinely reported in scientific literature and the general news media.<\/p>\n

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For his own uses as a hydraulic engineer working with flood-protection and coastal-infrastructure adaptation projects, Voortman\u00a0two years ago checked actual data for the Netherlands, and found it didn\u2019t match the global predictions.<\/p>\n

He was shocked to find that no one else was checking the models\u2019 claims against observed reality, and set out at his own expense to do the global study. <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t expect the truth to set in fast: \u201cClimate Week\u201d later this month will surely blare the same old now-debunked warnings.<\/p>\n

After all, the propagandists still keep telling everyone that climate change is producing a surge in extreme weather events \u2014 and the data don\u2019t bear that out, either. <\/p>\n

Heck, they outright lie about the \u201cdeath\u201d of the Great Barrier Reef<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

All this is supposed to justify a rush to bring carbon emissions to \u201cnet zero,\u201d which requires drastically less use of fossil fuels and (the story goes) heavy reliance on wind <\/a>and solar power.<\/p>\n

Yet such energy policies are insanely expensive \u2014 which is why nations like India and (especially) China keep building coal-fired electric plants even as they pay lip service to the \u201cneed\u201d for change.<\/p>\n

Chasing \u201cnet zero\u201d has helped zero out economic growth in Western Europe, and slammed consumers<\/a> in New York, New Jersey and other states. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The idea that human progress is making the planet uninhabitable scratched a deep ideological itch on the left, leaving most in the media and academia prone to eat up and amplify all the predictions of apocalypse. <\/p>\n

And the \u201cneed\u201d to stop the catastrophe requires huge state interventions in the economy \u2014 growing the power of government insiders and UN bureaucrats, giving them huge incentives to join the \u201csky is falling\u201d brigade. <\/p>\n

It also allows for huge payoffs to your friends<\/a> in the name of saving the planet. <\/p>\n

Voortman and de Vos have done landmark work in debunking one of the most common claims about \u201ccatastrophic man-caused climate change,\u201d but with all the interests served by pushing that false narrative, they\u2019re far less likely to win a Nobel prize than to be drowned by a rising tide of hate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yet another much-predicted climate-change catastrophe turns out to be baseless: Worldwide sea levels are not rising any faster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[4253,10533,1872,192,6202,1767,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-141150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-editorial","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-ocean","13":"tag-opinion","14":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}