By Jo Nova
People with a good education are hard to fool, which is why the curriculum buries the good stuff until it disappears under a kiloton of culture, engagement and sustainability blah. Then the media (with US government Blob funding) repeats the hypnotic trance line “seas are rising due to climate change” until anyone who was accidentally taught real science, forgets it.
How many children (how many adults) think that sea levels have been the same for a million years? The travesty of 12 years of education is that 99% of people know nothing about 99% of history, and even less about prehistory. Every one of these defenseless souls is so easily fooled into panic attacks about seas rising a millimeter a year. “Unprecedented” they say! Don’t use the hair-dryer!
Willie Soon has some fun in his time machine zipping through ancient Greece and Roman history, where ports were built 6 crazy kilometers from the sea…
As Willie mentioned, it’s awkward that the rise started 100 years before cars, and coal power plants existed.
And after two world wars, 1.5 billion cars and 35 million planes a year, the rate of sea level rise is pretty much the same as it was in 1860 or so. It’s like we are irrelevant…
[Graphed by Joanne Nova based on data from Jevrejura et al located at this site PMSML]
The fact is, according to 1000 tide gauges, spread all over the globe, sea levels are rising slowly at around 1 sole mm a year. And a nerd-level intense study of 60 beaches in Northern Europe showed a similar rise. By a strange coincidence the Topex/Poseidon satellite sea-level data set also showed the same tiny rates of sea level change in the 1990s — right up until they tortured the data to fit climate models. (We hear they calibrated the satellites to one sinking gauge in Hong Kong).
Other posts on Sea Levels
- Sea level rise less than 1mm for last 125 years in Kattegatt, Europe — Nils-Axel Morner
- Are sea-levels rising? Nils-Axel Mörner documents a decided lack of rising seas
- Man-made sea-level rises are due to global adjustments (Envisat data is also adjusted up).
- It wasn’t CO2: Global sea levels started rising before 1800
- 10% of sea level rise is due to land rising too. Got that?
- South Pacific sea levels – Best records show little or no rise?!
- Mass carbon emissions, yet Australian sea levels rise at similar speed as 1920 – 1950
- Climate change creates free real estate in Tuvalu: “climate refugees” can all go home
- Rising sea-levels in the Indian Ocean due to man-made “adjustments” not CO2
- Kiribati sinking “like Titanic” but 59 million times slower
- Asian sea levels changed rapidly 6,000 years ago — natural sea level rise “unprecedented”
Does Willie really think that an increase in temperature leads to an instant rise in sea level? The time lag is decades because of thermal mass. Why don’t you show some more recent data? Sea level rise is nonlinear and there is clear evidence of acceleration.
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Prove the evidence of acceleration!
You will be sure for the Nobel Price when you have success 😀
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https://tamino.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/acceleration-of-sea-level-rise/#more-12412
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How can these satellites, whizzing by over 1300 kms up, measure ocean SLR to millimetre accuracy? Even the satellite specs themselves clearly show that they cannot measure to this accuracy level. It’s all done with adjustments and modelling, not actual measurements.
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Goolag AI has a known extreme Left, pro-climate-catastrophism propaganda slant and says the following about the accuracy of satellite sea level measurements. It is quite bizarre.
Firstly, it says the accuracy is “a few centimetres” then says “this allows scientists to monitor sea level rise with millimeter-level accuracy”.
How do they make the leap from a “few centimetres” accuracy to “millimeter-level”?
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I asked for a proof, not for an activist memo.
😀
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The White Cliffs of Dover in SE England are made of chalk and they sit above the seal level. Chalk is made up of, well, Simon, you look it up. This either the sea level was higher a long time ago or something pushed the chalk up. I’ll go along with the sea levels being higher before Humans were around.
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Something happened in 1790 which kick started sea level rise, any suggestions?
Natural variables rule, in the Southern Hemisphere the LIA was still intrenched and over the next century huge icebergs were calved off Antartica, hence sea level rise.
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Simon,
Ordinarily, I’d agree with that. However, a few years ago climate scientists were explaining that the “missing heat” was hiding in the deep oceans. Apparently they can heat up faster than the air. Another breakthrough for The Science.
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There is evidence of SLR acceleration? Can you please point out to everyone on the Sydney and Fremantle tidal gauge charts, exactly which timespan clearly shows this acceleration? Because every time I look at the Fremantle gauge site, it’s basically a straight line with little wobbles for the past 130 years.
Sounds like you are referring to satellite observations, whizzing by at 1300 kms up, trying to measure ocean SLR to millimetre accuracy. Even the satellite specs say they cannot do that.
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Thanks again Jo for trying to help the clueless MSM, most pollies , some stupid scientists etc who couldn’t care less about the data and history.
The co2 Scientists understand the SL data and tell us that during the early Holocene sea levels were much higher than today.
And the Eemian was 8 c warmer than our Holocene temps today in 2025 and SLs then were 6 to 9 metres higher. Even Wiki agrees about the Eemian data.
And Daniel Fitzhenry told Andrew Bolt that SLs were about the same as SLs in 1914. He’s a hydrographic Surveyor and they check SLs daily for Fort Denison for the NSW govt.
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Here’s that 2019 interview with Daniel Fitzhenry again and all about the ups and downs of SL at Fort Denison since 1914.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mjOmsqIibk&t=10s
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Back in the day, even Australian schools, now Leftist indoctrination centres, used to teach the variability of climate, sea level, Ice Ages etc.. I learned about that in primary school (US = grade school). Now it’s just climate catastrophism and an Aristotlean “staticist” view of a never-changing world.
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The idea that the earth and universe is static is a very primitive one and articulated by Aristotle in “In the Heavens” 350BCE.
It is only in the last 100 years or so that the ideas of Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), a real climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist and polar researcher came to be accepted that the earth is not static. Among other ideas he conceived of continental drift which led to plate tectonics.
However, as early as 1840 Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) hypothesised that much of North America was once buried under glacial ice up to 3km deep and that climate must change.
Milutin Milanković (1879-1958) also discovered natural cycles in the climate.
Warmists have to do a lot of catching up with modern thinking.
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Many years ago I toured ancient sites of Greece and the Aegean. I was astounded to find how ancient battle sites (eg Thermopylae) and cities (egMiletus) were so far from the current coastline. It was hard to explain to family what had happened in historical battles.
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Vicky, never made it to Greece yet I’ve seen Mt Everest’s summit from Tibet and to know there’s limestone and fossilised sea critters way up there at 29,000’ buried under snow & ice, makes it clear a WHOLE LOT OF CHANGES have happened in the past.
As Kansas once sang: Dust In The Wind…
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Four years ago data analyst Willis Eschenbach explained how the so called scientists “munged” or manipulated the SL data.
What they claim is complete nonsense and the idea that they can measure SLs within one MM with satellites is just more laughable lunacy.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/02/21/munging-the-sea-level-data/
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100% correct. The actual satellite specs confirm this.
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The graph in the title picture was prepared by Jo.
When I looked at it I wondered what happened to the data from about 1860.
Suddenly the uncertainties (grey zone) are dramatically reduced and the up and down excursions of the sea also suddenly become much less at the same time.
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“….the first version of automatic tide gauges, invented by Joseph Saxton in 1851. Before their advent, tides had to be measured manually by placing a staff marked with units of measurement into the water.”
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Here’s the previous Eemian ( 130 K to 115 K years ago) temperature data link that was about 8 c warmer than our Holocene. This is from the co2 Coalition Scientist’s site.
BTW co2 levels during the Eemian were about 280 ppm. Just another problem for the activist loonies to THINK about.
https://co2coalition.org/facts/the-last-interglacial-was-8c-14f-warmer-than-today/
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Anyone taught real science, forgets it.
No no nein, some of us forgets NUSSINK!
Attempting to comprehend physics & chemistry equations and dissecting semi-frozen rats is as if it was yesterday… the memory of all the canings received has, thankfully, diminished with age (builds character my boy!).
My parents’ working-class desire for their children to be better educated than they were resulted in a home full of books – reading material – from encyclopaedias & dictionaries to history & atlases and scientific periodicals to sheet music, accompanied by the gramophone scratching out Louis Armstrong, Harry Belafonte and Bill Haley & his Comets.
I’m no born-again yet the darkness does seem to be ‘lifting’ somewhat, as if the scales are dropping from many, many eyes and the revelation of that which was hidden is now lit up by the light of day (excuse my poetical waxing). Even so, as David writes, the flat-earth statist conformists yet still breathe their polluted gospel from the Book of Gore and the Mannuscript of Man(n). And the light was good!
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You’d think that if sea level rise was a real concern, Leftist Elites would stop buying expensive waterfront properties.
E.g.
US: Gates, Obama, Zuckerberg, etc..
Australia: Flannery, Gillard, Turnbull, KRudd etc..
(Please feel free to add others to this list, these are ones that come to mind.)
Flannery has endorsed the opinion of James Hansen who predicted a 25 metre rise within ten years as of 2006.
It reminds me of the first modern Superman movie where Lex Luther bought cheap desert land as his fiendish plan was to cause California west of the San Andreas fault to slide into the sea and he would have the new waterfront land.
Similarly, the catastrophists scare people away from seaside property, the prices drop, and then they buy them cheaply.
And here’s a handy tip. Never buy properties on or near the beachfront prone to storm surges, or properties on floodplains, in earthquake zones (unless away from landslide risk and built to earthquake building code), or in volcano zones.
https://www.realestate.com.au/news/inside-the-private-homes-of-aussie-prime-ministers-how-albos-43m-mansion-compares/
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“…Superman movie…Lex Luther…”
Gene Hackman RIP
How much SLR is actually land subsidence? Does CO2 cause more ground water usage?
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Too many people are being churned out of the education production line wearing blinkers. They might be good at looking straight ahead and doing what their training specifies, but that’s the limit of using their knowledge. Apart from that, they’re effectively dumb. They have become good candidates for propaganda because they haven’t developed critical thinking skills. These people aren’t widely read over a range of disciplines and consequently have little general knowledge. In short, they are a waste of human potential. As JoNova says:
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On a recent trip to Kangaroo Island I saw a sign showing “Making the Landscape” with representations of the area back 550 million years.
The last drawing states:
‘1700 years ago
The sea retreats to the edge of the Continental Shelf during the last ice age. Humans cross to the island.
About 7000 years ago, the sea rises to its present position’
If we do a little digging on the island, perhaps we will find the SUVs that were used to move across from the mainland
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