It has been an exciting start to the year where I live, because the highest astronomical tide was forecast for 3rd January and there was a cyclone tracking towards us.
On the highest tide each year, I wonder if the waves will reach to the wave cut notch at the bottom of the cliff face, below Boiling Pot Lookout in Noosa National Park that is about halfway down the east coast of Australia, just near where I live.
I have been going around and standing there on the lower platform (Platform 1) for some years at the time of the highest tide. These tides are in summer in the Southern Hemisphere because that is when the Sun is closest to the Earth, and they usually correspond with a New Moon or Full Moon.
I won’t spoil the ending.
Where I was born, on the east coast, the sea is as it always was.
That’s because the government has been doing everything in its power to hold back the rising oceans but it’s getting harder all the time. That’s why taxes keep going up.
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I lived in Barbados 25 years ago. It’s one of the lowest islands in the Caribbean – very flat. The shoreline has not budged at all.
The climate cultists always choose some remote, inaccessible region (usually in the Arctic) to make their bogus claims. Places where ordinary citizens cannot easily verify the claims.
I only have to walk a few minutes to the ocean, and I can state with reasonable certainty that the ocean is still rising at the horrific rate of .8mm per year! We’re doomed I tell you, doomed! Oh the horror!
At this rate my house will be underwater in 37000 years!
My dilemma, should I sell now or should I wait?
I would wait Greg, unless of course you want to get a place in the mountains, just in case.
“I’ll take Interglacial Period for $100, Alex.”
Higher sea levels means less ice at the poles and a warmer planet.
And that’s the reason mankind has gone forth and prospered.
The longer it stays warm, the better.
The Canadian Shield is rebounding/rising still, but the return of the ice sheets is inevitable.
American philosopher George Carlin at his best…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4
I saw this on WUWT and thought that maybe the land has risen over thousands of years just like it has sunken relative to the ocean in places where climat-alarmists have pointed to as examples of rising oceans. I agree with VOWG and others, ocean levels are very steady, maybe 8mm rise per year. If the Arctic ice cap were to melt there wild be zero impact because it is floating on the Arctic ocean.
Brought to mind an article I once read where climate change scientists conducting sea level research on some South Sea island were alerted to a multitude of vintage photos inadvertently capturing a tree located near the waters edge which was still there and doing just fine but better yet made a nifty yardstick if one were gauging changes in sea levels over the years. Can’t have that.
Solution? Scientists convinced village elders to have the tree cut down.
What a scam.
Out here on the bald-assed prairie, sea levels all look the same. About 3000 feet above the danger zone. If levels start getting close, the Rockies are a short drive. I know of a really comfortable cave around 8500′.