“We Can’t Stop Rising Sea Levels”–Tamsin “Canute” Edwards
By Paul Homewood
h/t Cheshire Red
You are right, Tamsin! We cannot stop rising sea levels, because they have been rising since the 19thC because of purely natural forces, as the Earth has recovered from the Little Ice Age. WE have no more chance of stopping seas rising, than Canute has of stopping the ride coming in!
https://www.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_global_country.html?gid=1222
Moreover, sea levels were rising just as fast as now a century ago:
Between the 1960s and 1980s, sea level rise slowed, as global temperatures fell.
This cyclical pattern is readily apparent at many other sites around the world. For instance:
According to Tamsin, we are on course for 40cm of sea level rise by 2100, equivalent to 5mm a year:
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Yet actual data shows this to be nonsensical. Maybe its time Tamsin dumped her computer models, and got out into the real world.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Tide???
Reducing emissions to meet Paris agreement targets does not reduce warming. All that does is keep carbon in the ground in case it is needed when the climate cools again.
Reducing emissions to meet Paris agreement targets does not reducing warming. All that does is keep carbon in the ground in case it is needed when the climate cools again.
The difference is that Canute was educating the onlookers, showing that he couldn’t control the sea.
That is quite a difference!
Paul,
Similar dreck in the Times today.
Clearly Nature magazine is widely read and taken as gospel without any analysis.
That would challenge political aims and cause confrontation and potential job loss
– as a result they give in, play the game, win their brownie points.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/melting-antarctic-ice-will-cause-unstoppable-sea-level-rise-without-drastic-cut-in-emissions-thfql3rk5
Another day, another scare. But the models present clear and irrefutable evidence of the climate emergency/global warming/extreme weather. So if the data doesn’t support the models, the data must be wrong. Go back and re do it until 2+2=5 – or whatever number confirms that the models are right.
Remind me, when did Doggerland disappear beneath the waves? Around 6500 BC? Imagine what the carbon emissions must have been to cause that. How did they not realise they were causing a climate emergency with their profligate use of fossil fuels?
Indeed Brenda. Following the logic of your average Guardianista author, if only the rulers of the day had introduced a flint tax and strict curbs on the use of stone tools then Doggerland would be sitting proudly above the waves even now.
This is in my climate bookmarks. It proves useful when commenting on nonsense on the web.
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html
Not many red stations
I always thought Tamsin was quite reasonable when she used to engage sceptics at Bishophill. She seems to have basically gone all out warmunista now, maybe it’s the lure of constant grant funding.
I seem to recall pointing out to her the value of reality checks by back of the envelope calculations. Unfortunately the lesson seems to have been forgotten.
‘We can’t stop rising sea levels, but we still have a chance to slow them down’
Oh, he picks up Gideon’s Bible
Open at page one
I thank God he stole the handle
And the train — it won’t stop going
Though it could slow down
Being wrong about everything is no deterrent to climate miserablists.
It’s interesting to note that if global temperatures increase by another 0.5C to reach that apparently unacceptable, finger in the air 1.5C tipping point as defined by the IPCC, we would have returned to temperatures last seen when King Canute was on the throne during the Medieval Warm period. And we all know that King Canute was wise enough to accept his limitations as a mere mortal when he famously demonstrated to his subjects that, although he was King, he had no power over natural forces such as tidal flows that caused the occasional flood.
King Canute had no idea that molecules of CO2 existed, or that he was actually living during a period of global warming or climate change. Nevertheless, he was able to ascertain that humans had absolutely no chance of taming the immense forces of nature.
If our pathetic leaders today could adopt some of that Canute humility, we would not now be suffering from such delusions of grandeur that leads Bumbling Boris to believe we can control the climate with a simplistic tweak of the CO2 control knob…..and perhaps stop the tide coming in!
OP-ed in the Los Angeles Times this morning. “We can’t hold back rising oceans. We can only move out of the way” by “Gary Griggs is a distinguished professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.”
” This passive erosion is likely to lead to the loss of 31% to 67% of Southern California beaches by 2100 under sea-level-rise scenarios of 34 to 78 inches, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. ”
Someone should plot where the beach was some 20K yrs ago, when SL was 400 ft lower. Looking at Google Earth at a location – around Hermosa Beach – the beach would have been approx 11 miles west of it’s present day location.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-05-06/california-coast-sea-level-rise-climate-solutions
‘OP-ed in the Los Angeles Times this morning. “We can’t hold back rising oceans. We can only move out of the way” by “Gary Griggs is a distinguished professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.”’
What’s this “We” shit?
People are responsible for their property. “We” are not. Should the oceans rise and inundate someone’s property, it’s their problem. Building at oceans edge has risks. I do not accept any liability for their decision.