Inaccurate
Rates of global sea level rise have accelerated since 1900, contrary to bloggers’ claims
Claim:
“there has not been a long-term distinctive change in sea level rise rates in the last 120 years”
Articles tagged with
Sea level rise
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Source: NoTricksZone, Watts Up With That?, Kenneth Richard, Pierre L. Gosselin, 2021-01-11 -
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Global data contradict claim of no acceleration in sea level rise
Claim:
The long-term tide gauge datasets are all in agreement that there is no acceleration
Source: Watts Up With That?, Willis Eschenbach, 2020-03-08 -
InaccurateSea levels rose faster in the past century than in previous time periods
Claim:
Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization
Source: American Thinker, Thomas Lifson, 2020-03-07 -
InaccurateSea levels have risen throughout the 20th century, contrary to claim in online articles
Claim:
Scientists were caught 'adjusting' sea level data to create false impression of rising oceans
Source: Breitbart, Signs of the Times, James Delingpole, Vicki Batts, 2019-05-28 -
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Flawed reasoningIn popular video, Dan Peña falsely claims humans aren't causing climate change
Claim:
Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...] It's all cyclical; [human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are] not a fart in the wind. Sea level rise is not going to happen.
Source: "Ivanka_Trump" Facebook account, Dan Peña, 2019-05-04 -
-0.3NeutralStory on congressman's incorrect claims about sea level rise could have corrected them more explicitly
“The comments from the members of the Committee suffer from severe inaccuracies and misconceptions, and citations of the invited climate scientist mostly address those issues.
In general, the views that go against our understanding of the climate change process are underlined and presented as such by the author, but rarely supported by statements or explanations that go beyond the immediate replies from the invited climate scientist. Some of the inaccurate statements quoted in the text are thus left with an incomplete challenge.” -
-2Very lowPopular “Friends of Science” video promoted by Youtube presents long list of climate myths
“The video presents a litany of the usual climate denier talking points, none of which hold any water. It is full of outright false claims and does not even shy away from presenting a fake TIME magazine cover that supposedly warned of an ice age. “Friends of Science” is an advocacy group “largely funded by the fossil fuel industry””
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IncorrectFred Singer incorrectly claims sea level rise is not caused by climate change
Claim:
Sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Fred Singer, 2018-05-15
