by Larry Hamlin, Watts Up With That:
NOAA year 2024 measured U.S. Station Sea Level rise data outcomes establish that alarmists 4 decades long hyped claims of high rates of accelerating sea level rise due to increasing man-made CO2 emissions have clearly failed.
In 1988 Senate hearings Democrat politicians claimed that climate model derived accelerating sea level rise future outcomes will occur because of man-made CO2 emissions as presented in their Senate testimony by “experts” as addressed in detail here in the WUWT article shown below.
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At the time of these hearings in 1988 global CO2 emissions stood at about 20.85 billion metric tons and since then have climbed to about 35.13 billion metric tons by year end 2023 as documented here.
The entire increase in global CO2 emissions from 1988 to 2023 is accounted for solely by the world’s developing countries (24.02 billion metric tons in 2023 versus 9.27 billion metric tons in 1988) lead by coal fuel dominate China and India with the developed countries, including the U.S. and Europe, having CO2 emissions lower (11.11 billion metric tons in 2023 versus 11.59 billion metric tons in 1988) than year 1988 levels.
The developed countries globally irrelevant emissions outcome during this period occurred while they were wasting trillions of dollars on hugely unreliable and non-dispatchable renewable energy along with absurd net-zero pipedreams resulting in massive energy cost increases, failing and decaying reliability of their energy systems with major economically important businesses and industry suffering decline and stagnation while damaging GDP growth in the largest of these nations.
At the Democrats Senate 1988 hearing so called “experts” were paraded forward and provided testimony claiming that rising global CO2 emissions experienced to date (1988) would result in increasing sea level rise acceleration rates of 2.5 inches over the next decade (0.25 inches per year) as noted below from the hearing record as follows:
“Global mean temperature will likely rise at about 0.6 degrees F per decade and sea level at about 2.5 inches per decade.”
“These rates are about six times recent history.”
“Furthermore, as long as greenhouse gases continue to grow in the atmosphere, there is no known natural limit to the warming short of catastrophic change.”
“Because the oceans are slow to heat, there is a lag between emissions and full manifestation of corresponding warming, a lag which some estimate at 40 years.”
“The world is now 1 degree F warmer than century ago and may become another 1 degree warmer even if conditions are curtailed today.”
“Every decade of delay and implementation of greenhouse gas abatement policies ultimately adds perhaps a degree F of warming, and no policy can be fully implemented immediately in any event.”
As noted above global CO2 emissions have climbed from 20.85 billion metric tons to 35.13 billion metric tons from 1988 to 2023 driven exclusively by the developing nations.
Over this 4 decades interval of climbing CO2 emissions that, according to the 1988 Senate hearing “expert” testimony, should have resulted in huge increases in sea level rise acceleration far above the 2.5 inches per decade (0.25 inches per year) outcome hyped in the 1988 hearing.
NOAA has just released its year 2024 Relative Sea Level Rise data for its U. S. Stations. The data for the longest U.S. Station time period measurement location is at the Battery, New York (1856 to 2024) and is shown below.
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