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Blockbuster sea level study may turn climate change orthodoxy on its head (nypost.com)
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[–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

... Isn't the rate at which it is rising quite a big deal, and exaggerating the rate of the rise is misleading?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Sure! It's really important to develop better models for projecting ocean level growth.

    It does not, however, turn everything on its head , and it does not discount the premise the climate is changing.

    The news article is politicized beyond what the science says.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    I would emphasize, though, that the rate at which they were previously saying it was changing was alarmist and inaccurate.

    Kind of like how they routinely would talk about islands going underwater. I remember in the mid 2000s believing that Maldives would likely go under water, something that the then leader of the country also believed... But it just has not happened, and a lot of the talk about the rate at which it is happening ends up encouraging extreme protest positions that do things which are not warranted, IMO.

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