Boston’s Phony Sea-Level Scare Debunked – Again
Yesterday on Climate Realism, we debunked a fake sea-level scare promoted by Boston’s National Public Radio affiliate, WBUR.
WBUR claims global warming has caused 28 trillion tons of ice to disappear since 1994, which WBUR claims is a worst-case scenario for global sea level, and especially for Boston.
In addition to the scientific evidence we presented yesterday, let’s add another piece of scientific evidence today. Actual sea level data show no acceleration in Boston’s sea level since 1994.
So much for WBUR’s Boston sea-level scare.
Above is sea-level data for Boston, reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Where is the cataclysmic rise in sea level since 1994? It simply isn’t there.
The reason it isn’t there is that ice has been slowly and steadily melting – and sea level has been slowly and steadily rising – in Boston and throughout much of the world since at least the mid-1800s.
The ice melt since 1994 is nothing unusual or extraordinary.
Utilizing 19th- and 20th-century technologies, humans have adapted to rising sea levels without much problem.
It is odd that climate alarmists claim that with all the advantages of 21st-century technologies, humans suddenly won’t be able to adapt to modest sea-level rise.
Boston’s post-1994 ice melt has not created a sea-level emergency.
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Koen Vogel
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Hi James,
Indeed no cause for alarm given the unchanging trend since 1994. In addition, the graphs may not actually show sea level is rising at all: all they show is that locally the relative sea level appears to be rising. The measurements likely do not take into account that Massachusetts is actually sinking due to iso-static rebound. During the previous ice age the weight of the massive ice sheets depressed the earth’s crust in areas such as Scandanavia and Canada/Northern US. This depression caused a flexural bulge in the crust in areas immediately south of the sheets, such as in Massachusetts. When the ice sheets retreated, the process was reversed: Canada is now rising due to iso-static rebound, Massachusetts is sinking. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound) Any sinking due to post-glacial rebound must therefore be removed from the data when comparing it to global sea levels.
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