New York Times Caught With Their Knickers Down

13 Responses to New York Times Caught With Their Knickers Down

1. Will Nitschke says:

   May 15, 2012 at 10:40 pm

   The beach actually looks bigger after 80 years…

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2. Eric Simpson says:

   May 15, 2012 at 10:56 pm

   Look at the pink building on the left. While there has been no exact tide calibration, it’s as obvious as day that the sea has not risen. If anything, the sea level has dropped! What absolute bunk is the baloney that they are spewing about sea level rise. A comment I did on the question “how will we measure the sea level if Envisat is down?”:

   Oh yeah, a person said “go to the beach!”

   No, that won’t work. Don’t believe your own eyes. “You’ve got lying eyes” when it comes to sea level. We need enhanced satellite imaging and fourth generation data processing, and also if we can finally get a moon base we should observe sea levels from there as well.

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3. Billy Liar says:

   May 16, 2012 at 12:33 am

   There’s a 0.7 meter tide in Honolulu and the beach shelves quite gradually – there could be a significant visual impact as a result.

   http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/easytide/EasyTide/ShowPrediction.aspx?PortID=6636&PredictionLength=7

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   • Eric Simpson says:

     May 16, 2012 at 1:02 am

     Checking your link, that seems like normal tides, the same as everywhere. But what are you suggesting? That in these 80 years we may very well have had significant sea level rise?

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   • Sleepalot says:

     May 16, 2012 at 5:00 am

     The tidal range at Liverpool, UK is nearly 10 metres!

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     • nzrobin says:

       May 25, 2012 at 8:08 am

       Wow – that’s a lot. It’s almost as much as a few mm per decade. LOL.

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4. Andy DC says:

   May 16, 2012 at 12:34 am

   The NY Times has proved that the development of Waikiki Beach has been tremendous since 1930.

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5. DirkH says:

   May 16, 2012 at 1:53 am

   Oh no! The fools! All of those buildings are doomed! It is only a matter of time.

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6. Will Nitschke says:

   May 16, 2012 at 3:08 am

   I’d like to see the beach and pink building at high tide as the best estimate of any form of encroachment. But even so, the global averaged sea level rise over that period would have been less than 14cm.

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   • Eric Simpson says:

     May 16, 2012 at 4:56 am

     Excellent idea, Will. Crowd source it, or whatever. Get various time-stamped photos at high tide. We don’t know the tide of the 1930 shot, but…

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7. Sundance says:

   May 16, 2012 at 3:38 am

   NOAA updated tide record shows Honolulu SLR at 1.42mm last year. the 102 year trend was 1.50mm/yr. average less than 6 inches per century.

   http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_update.shtml?stnid=1612340

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   • stevengoddard says:

     May 16, 2012 at 3:40 am

     Probably mainly due to subsidence.

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     • Sleepalot says:

       May 16, 2012 at 5:57 am

       You have to wonder what that city weighs.

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