Ian Bradford: Large sea level rises? No. Just more scaremongering.

Isn’t sea level rise a matter of common sense?  How any reading this article can say they have seen significant sea level rise in their lifetime?  I know of three beaches that are actually building out. I’m sure there are others.

Let’s begin with a UN headline from 1989. 

UN predicts disaster if global warming not checked. 

Ian Bradford: Convincing Arguments Against Anthropogenic Climate Change

The world is running on BS and propaganda and New Zealand is not exempt.

Here are a few reasons why human caused climate change is a gigantic fraud.

Background

The roots of this climate scare lay in an environmental movement of the 1970’s. The club of Rome (environmental consultants to the UN) used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth was left unchecked. They came up with the following statement: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us we came up with the idea that....the threat of global warming would fit the bill.”

Ian Bradford: Sea Level Rise - is it just more Propaganda?

The following scaremongering was put out several years ago.

This comes from Peter James Spielmann journalist, from 1989.

United Nations (AP): A senior UN environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000 - yes 2000!

Ian Bradford: Sea Level Rise (or Not!)

This is one aspect of climate where common sense should prevail. 

It’s a matter of going to a beach you visited when a child and looking at the level of the sea. Can you notice any difference in sea level? 

I’d be surprised if the answer is yes. 

You might notice more erosion- that’s not sea level rise, or you might notice that the beach has built out. Sometimes, the land along a stretch of coast may be slowly sinking, and it might appear that the sea has risen when it is really the land that has sunk.

We shall begin this section with some very real comments made by climate alarmists connected to the United Nations. These comments may still be available on the internet.

Eric Crampton: The Reserve Bank's frog-exaggerator

In a classic Simpsons episode, the gang went out looking for the Loch Ness Monster. Professor Frink turned on his scanning scope. He watched the gauge.

Then, with horror, he announced: “Oh, my great, good God. Gentlemen, your attention, please. I am detecting a gigantic amphibious life-form. It’s 80 meters long and it’s heading this way.”

A frog hopped out of the Loch and onto his shoe.

Then Professor Frink realised that he hadn’t been using his Monster-Ometer. He’d turned on the Frog-Exaggerator.

A Reserve Bank press release this week warned, “Climate change stress test highlights flooding risks”. The first paragraph cautioned that river and surface water flooding “may pose an even greater risk to bank residential mortgage portfolios than coastal flooding.”

Mike Hosking: Are we growing tired of the climate alarmism?

I haven't tried the scientists' new tool to work out whether my house is going to be under water sooner than I think.

I am still a little surprised, though, that we seem to be making an awful lot of the fact that two well-known bits of data have never been joined together before to allegedly give us this startlingly new look at our lives and future.

The land, in bits of the country, moves. And where it moves down, and in some areas, we are talking about four millimetres a year, this makes a real difference, if you are looking to calculate when the tide is in to your lounge and you are moving out.

What we must point out, and the scientists never like to hear, is that the model around sea level isn't new. It’s the same old model they have used for years, so its accuracy is in some doubt.

Sterling Burnett: No Evidence of a Human-Induced Sea Level Increase

Environmental activists, mainstream media outlets, and many scientists routinely claim governments must take drastic action to transform the world’s economic system, including ending the use of fossil fuels, or island nations will disappear beneath the seas and low-lying coastal cities will be swamped, forcing a great migration of populations inland.

To back up their claims, they cite statements from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) asserting it is "very likely" sea level rise has accelerated since the middle of the twentieth century in response to warming caused by rising greenhouse gas emissions. The IPCC, however, bases its claim on computer model projections instead of measured, real-life data.

Dr H. Sterling Burnett: Rising Seas Aren’t Swamping Small Island Nations

At a U.N. Conference of world leaders in September, representatives of the Alliance of Small Island States and the Least Developed Countries Group said, “In another 75 years, many ... members may no longer hold seats at the United Nations if the world continues on its present course,” the Associated Press (AP) reports.

At the same meeting, Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said, “We are already seeing a version of environmental Armageddon.”

The problem, according to the island nations represented at the U.N. meeting, is that low-lying islands such as Tuvalu will completely disappear within 75 years, covered by rising seas. Fortunately, scientific evidence demolishes such claims.

Nils-Axel Mörner: Fiji ‘Flooding’ is Fake News

Open Letter to Honorable Prime Minister of Fiji and President of COP23 Frank Bainimarama:

   - Field evidence in the Fiji islands indicate no rise in sea level   
   - Fiji corals indicate full sea level stability since 1950