Sea Levels Have Risen By 8 Foot Since 1990 – BBC

By Paul Homewood

h/t Quaesoveritas

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06pvdn8/house-of-lords-climate-change-debate

The BBC, who laughably claim to provide “trusted World and UK news”, broadcast the BBC Parliament Channel. Last week they carried the House of Lords debate on climate change, featuring a load of superannuated old duffers reading from their Greenpeace scripts.

The BBC, being ever helpful, provided a ticker tape of all the relevant “facts”. Including the information that sea levels around the UK have been increasing by 10cm a year since the 1990’s. (About 3 mins in).

Now it may of course be that the reporter does not understand metric measurements, in which case he might like to know that, according to his figures, sea level has risen by 98 inches since 1990!

Even if he had intended millimeters though, 9.8 inches would still be many times to high.

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_global_country.htm?gid=1222

The reality is that sea levels have been increasing by less than 2mm/year since the early 20thC, and trends in the last 50 years have shown a slow down.

NOAA’s graphs only take us up to 2011, but at the end of 2014 sea levels were actually lower than they were 25 years before.

I am not saying that the BBC have deliberately sexed up the numbers. But it is clear that they are so obsessed with their own propaganda that they don’t bother to question what is obviously nonsensical data when it comes along.