Last week the BBC reported that the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres claimed the surging seas are coming for us all. This is a crazy human-caused situation, he fibbed, and we must listen to the “science”, the Guardian helpfully noted. In this case the science is the computer modelled sea level rise of 3-4 mm a year obtained from satellite telemetry which is three times higher than long term, accurate coastal tide gauges. A group of Malaysian geospatial scientists recently published a paper that highlighted the difficulties of measuring sea levels by satellite up to 10 kms off the coast, and concluded that results remained a “challenge”. It is becoming clear that the use of sea levels to scare human populations to accept Net Zero has, like local and global temperatures, more fiddles than the music cupboard at the Royal Philharmonic. This allows the emotional and unhinged Guterres – one year, global boiling, the next, global drowning – to flourish in the heavily-groomed mainstream media. It is somewhat concerning to know that the day job of this odd fellow is keeping World Peace.
Investigative climate science has descended to joke levels in most mainstream media. Guterres made his remarks in Tonga and said the Pacific islands are the most vulnerable area of the world. It is true that living on rocky outcrops and sand banks in the middle of a vast ocean might have some long term difficulties, but not it seems of late from rising sea levels. Most Pacific islands from the Maldives to Tuvalu have actually increased in size.
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