No Evidence Climate Change Has Accelerated Sea Level Rise per First Global Study

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Well, melted ice = deeper water, wetter air and wetter land. Seems like a dynamic mass balance is needed, as we have seen glaciers melt, sea ice thin and Greenland melting down.

> “The average rate of sea level rise in 2020 is (only) around 1.5 mm/year (15 cm per century),” said Voortman. “This is significantly lower than the 3 to 4 mm/year often reported by climate scientists in scientific literature and the media.”

The author of this article is a glorified right conspiracist who uses the "previously liberal but turned right" trope. At best it's a grifter, at worst he believes what he writes.

Shellenberger already downplayed the climate change urgency and said himself to be skeptical of scientific "consensus". Despite Shellenberger insists on the independence of the authors of this particular paper, you should know this paper uses cherrypicked data (it excludes satellite data and it literally cherrypicked specific area excluding others) and it's written by a 65 yo entomologist and a "engineer" who is also a consultant that frequently speaks at events funded by fossil fuel lobbyists (CLINTEL). Yes, "independent".

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