Sea Level Research Institute facing scrutiny after revelation that they’ve been fudging sea level data
An update on last months post on this very topic: Figures:
NASA-Funded Group Doctors Sea Level Data. Remember the absurd hide the decline scandal that was part of the bigger CRU email leak? So absurd that they actually turned a global temperature decline into an unprecedented increase: Video: Berkeley Professor Richard Muller Explains "Trick" to "Hide The Decline" in ClimateGate Scandal
From Fox News: Changing Tides: Research Center Under Fire for ‘Adjusted’ Sea-Level Data
Is climate change raising sea levels, as Al Gore has argued -- or are climate scientists doctoring the data?
The University of Colorado’s Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters -- or about the thickness of a fingernail -- every year to its actual measurements of sea levels, sparking criticism from experts who called it an attempt to exaggerate the effects of global warming.
"Gatekeepers of our sea level data are manufacturing a fictitious sea level rise that is not occurring," said James M. Taylor, a lawyer who focuses on environmental issues for the Heartland Institute.
Steve Nerem, the director of the widely relied-upon research center, told FoxNews.com that his group added the 0.3 millimeters per year to the actual sea level measurements because land masses, still rebounding from the ice age, are rising and increasing the amount of water that oceans can hold.
Rising land mass? Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah - from the author of the global warming bill in the US House:
Evaporate? North Pole? Tundra? This guy was the author of the global warming bill??? More from Reason Hit & Run, American Thinker and The Lonely Conservative
UPDATE: Via Jazz Shaw:
Your award winning, takeaway quote from the article is found at the very end.
“When Al Gore talks about Manhattan flooding this century, and 20 feet of sea level rise, that’s simply not going to happen. If it were going to happen, he wouldn’t have bought his multi-million dollar mansion along the coast in California.”
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