We have sent Linda a copy of a new paper by Alberto Boretti, (School of Science, Information technology and Engineering, University of Ballarat) just published (in press) at the journal; Coastal Engineering. It's titled Is there any support in the long term tide gauge data to the claims that parts of Sydney will be swamped by rising sea levels?
Here's the Abstract:
The government of Australia is supporting the statement that sea levels are rising faster than ever before as a result of increased carbon dioxide emissions. Consequent to this, low-lying coastal areas, where the majority of Australians are concentrated, have been declared at risk of sea level inundations. Maps with 0.5, 0.8 and 1.1 m sea level rise have been proposed for Sydney, the major Australian city. However, long term tide gauges, recording sea levels worldwide, as well as along the coastline of Australia, and within the bay of Sydney, do not show any sign of accelerating sea level rises at present time.
From the Conclusion:
Via Roger Pielke Snr
Thought you might be interested (though I think the ABC is innocent in this case) in some apparent scullduggery on
ReplyDeletehttp://www.abc.net.au/environment/?content=state-of-the-climate-2012
Three stations show a very large uptick in 2010, whereas the BOM/NTC data does not. Preceding data points for Darwin, Wyndham and Carnarvon (WA), and other plots seem kosher. I've just posted on this "hockeystick creation", with charts of the real data.