Madness over sea level rise in North Carolina Posted on 29 June 2012 by John Bruno
Sleepy North Carolina became an international topic of conversation (and ridicule) this month thanks to our state legislature’s bills declaring sea level rise “illegal”, or more accurately, insisting that state planning for future sea level be based only on “historical records”, meaning tide gage measurments during the last century (translation; there is no acceleration of sea level rise here folks – now move along).
CU satellite data shows no sea level rise off the coast of North Carolina over the last decade. The graph below is the average of the grid cells in the gray box below.
Cook is trying to make the case that sea level rise is accelerating (positive second derivative) when in fact it isn’t even rising (zero first derivative.)
The climate nutjobs need to learn the difference between sea level rise and subsidence.
