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A recent analysis of global sea level rise rates concludes the rising trend was 1.56 mm per year from 1900-2018. This is the same rate as for 1958-2014 (1.5 mm per year), indicating there has not been a long-term distinctive change in sea level rise rates in the last 120 years.
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These are a sampling of many reports that show sea level is not rising at an alarming rate. Here are some others:
A policy brief from The Heartland Institute shows there is no evidence of acceleration in the rise of global sea levels since the 1920s and concludes the IPCC concerns over the issue are ‘without merit.’
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America’s nuclear energy situation is a microcosm of the nation’s broader political dysfunction. We are at an impasse, and the debate around nuclear energy is highly polarized, even contemptuous. This political deadlock ensures that a widely disliked status quo carries on unabated. Depending on one’s politics, Americans are left either with outdated reactors and an unrealized potential for a high-energy but climate-friendly society, or are stuck taking care of ticking time bombs churning out another two thousand tons of unmanageable radioactive waste every year.
By gregladen on December 8, 2015.
This afternoon in Washington DC, Texas Republican Ted Cruz, who does not believe in global warming yet is chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, will convene a hearing called “Data or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate over the Magnitude of Human Impact on Earth’s Climate.” The purpose of the hearing appears to be to reify the false debate of the reality and importance of anthropogenic global warming, and is yet another step in the current McCarthyesque attack on legitimate climate scientists and their research.
This is an important moment in the history of bullshit.
Molly Butler / Media Matters
1. CNBC’s Joe Kernan suggests that climate science is discredited, acts more insufferable than an actual fossil fuel executive on his panel
Reporting live from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on the January 23 edition of CNBC’s
Squawk Box, co-host Joe Kernan suggested that Greta Thunberg’s prominence was driven in part by “climate alarmism” and that climate science was discredited. He stated, “The prophets of doom that have been proven wrong again and again in the past. … The Malthusian bets have never paid off.” Kernan’s framing was used by Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who was on the panel, as a springboard to downplay the seriousness of the climate crisis and greenwash the Trump administration’s record on climate change.
I rely on Judith Curry of
Climate Etc to alert me to useful and provocative essays, articles and books, and she recently wrote a new essay herself, which you can read here. I think that the core element of her essay is the proposition that blaming gets in the way of doing anything sensible about whatever the problem is thought to be. Or, putting it another way, that the goal of the blamers is the immediate punishment of the offenders, not searching for a solution to the imagined problem. She uses material from the pandemic to try to find what is happening in the domain of climate change.