A new peer-reviewed study has found that 95% of tide gauges worldwide show no statistical acceleration in sea level rise.
The findings contradict one of the key claims pushed by globalists that “global warming” is driving dangerous flooding.
The study was published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.
The analysis was conducted by renowned Dutch engineering consultant Hessel G. Voortman and independent researcher Rob De Vos.
They concluded that modern sea level increases remain slow, modest, and often driven by local geological factors, not global “climate change.”
According to the study, global sea levels in 2020 were rising at just 1.5 millimeters per year, or roughly six inches per century.
In fact, the increases have remained unchanged for thousands of years, meaning humans have made zero impact on sea levels.
By comparison, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected a sea level rise of 3.5 mm per year, more than double the observed rate.
“The statistical procedure detects accelerating sea level rise in a few isolated locations,” the authors wrote.
“This pattern is inconsistent with sea level acceleration driven by global phenomena.”
The handful of locations that did show acceleration were linked to local land subsidence or compaction, not melting polar ice caps.
Experts say the findings further disprove climate alarmist narratives.
“Overall, this study indicates that in most places, sea levels are not rising unusually quickly,” said Sterling Burnett, director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at The Heartland Institute.
Burnett noted that seas rose more than 400 feet after the last ice age and that today’s rate of rise is slower than much of the post-glacial era.
Any modern acceleration, he said, remains well within the margin of error.
Voortman told journalist Michael Shellenberger he was stunned no one had attempted a systematic comparison before.
“I had to do a lot of programming and automate data imports and data management,” he explained.
“I was dealing with 150,000 locations and, on average, 100 years of data.
“That made one and a half million lines of data.”
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Ultimately, the data showed that 95% of tide gauges did not support claims of global acceleration.
The remaining 5% were best explained by local non-climatic causes.
The findings come as other recent studies also undercut apocalyptic climate predictions.
A study published earlier this year showed Arctic sea ice melt has slowed over the past two decades, contrary to decades of “ice-free Arctic” predictions.
Another report revealed that a widely cited 2024 study projecting $38 trillion in climate damages by 2050 relied on inaccurate data and faulty assumptions.
Steve Milloy, senior fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, said climate activists consistently mislead the public.
“There are a lot of additional factors that can affect tide gauge measurements, including geological changes, groundwater withdrawal, and land use,” Milloy said.
“But climate alarmists falsely chalk up all changes to polar ice melting caused by emissions-driven ‘global warming.’”
While globalist elites continue to push catastrophic climate policies, the latest data reinforces what skeptics have long argued: the science simply does not match the rhetoric.
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