Sea Level Rise Defies Alarmist Scare Tactics

This revelation raises serious questions about the reliability of much of the existing research on sea level rise and its impact;

Jack Dini ——Bio and Archives--March 24, 2026

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Newsweek claimed US cities would be under water by 2050, they forgot the same predictions were made for 2000 and 2020. (1)

Willie Soon pointed out that after two world wars, 1.5 billion cars and 35 million planes a year, the rate of sea level rise is pretty much the same as it was in 1860 or so. (2)

Researcher Hessel Voortman was shocked that no researcher had performed an analysis of real-world local data

According to 1,000 tide gauges, spread all over the globe, sea levels are rising slowly at around 1 mm a year. An intense study of 60 beaches in Northern Europe showed a similar rise. The Topex/Poseidon satellite sea level data also showed the same tiny rates of sea level change in the 1990s.

Researcher Hessel Voortman was shocked that no researcher had performed an analysis of real-world local data. He and his co-author reported that the average sea level rise in 2020 was only around 1.5 mm per year, or 6 inches per century. This is significantly lower than the 3 to 4 mm/year often reported by climate scientists in scientific literature and the media. (3)

The startling conclusion: Approximately 95% of monitoring locations show no statistically significant acceleration of sea level rise. It was found that the steady rate of sea level rise, averaging around 1 to 2 millimeters per year globally, mirrors patterns observed over the past 150 years. The study claimed the models of the UN climate panel, the IPCC, significantly overestimated local sea level rise in 2020.

For decades, forecasts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and widely cited media outlets suggested sea levels could rise three feet or more by 2100—with catastrophic consequences for low-lying energy hubs. This report........

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