{"id":294203,"date":"2024-01-08T10:48:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T09:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=294203"},"modified":"2024-01-08T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T09:48:17","slug":"no-kqed-californias-storm-surf-not-caused-by-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=294203","title":{"rendered":"No, KQED, California\u2019s Storm Surf Not Caused by Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

News Brief by Kip Hansen \u2014 6 January 2024 \u2014 400 words\/4 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Public Radio station in San Francisco, California, KQED<\/a>, created a news piece \u2014 Huge waves are crashing on the California coast, in part due to climate  change<\/a> \u2014which ran nationally on \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d.  The piece starts with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJUANA SUMMERS, HOST:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGiant waves are crashing along the California coast for the second time in two weeks thanks to stormy weather and high sea levels due in part to human-caused climate change<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It simply is not true that California has \u201chigh sea levels\u201d (at all \u2013 there are no high sea levels in California, anywhere) and what minor changes California has seen to mean sea levels is not caused by Climate Change, but by long-term geophysical processes, including the slight warming as the Earth comes up and out of the\u00a0Little Ice Age.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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None of these tide gauge stations<\/a> records show any unusual sea level rise up and down the California coast.  They each show a slow stead rise not much different than the long-term global sea level trend (measured by tide gauges) of 1.7 to 2.0 mm\/yr. (\u201c\u2026 given that the absolute global sea level rise is believed to be 1.7 +\/- 0.3 millimeters\/year during the 20th century.\u201d \u2014 here<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of these exceed 4 inches of sea level rise over the last 50 years, even without <\/em>subtracting any negative Vertical Land Movement, which would increase apparent relative sea level rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California\u2019s recent high waves<\/strong> are caused by off-shore storms as reported by the Associated Press in this press release:  Powerful Pacific swell brings the threat of more dangerous surf to California<\/a> on December 30, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Los Angeles-area weather office wrote that powerful cyclones over northern Pacific waters were sending 12- to 17-foot (3.6- to 5-meter) swells, creating \u201ctremendous wave energy across coastal waters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At some points along California, breaking waves were predicted to reach 25 feet (7.6 meters). Astronomical high tides were adding to a significant risk of more coastal flooding, forecasters said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOverall, this is expected to be an exceptional high-surf and coastal flooding event that has not occurred in many years,\u201d the weather service wrote. \u201cTake caution and heed the direction of local authorities and lifeguards. Never ever turn your back to the water as damaging and life-threatening sneaker waves are likely to occur.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is true in the KQED report is that high waves cause beach erosion and can threaten human development along the beaches.  That is nature, and human disregard for reality,  not climate change.  It has always been the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author\u2019s Comment:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NPR is one of the nation\u2019s most prominent Climate Crisis propaganda sources.  Almost nothing they print or broadcast that touches on or includes any reference to weather, storms, temperatures, rainfall, droughts, etc.  is real journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I once surfed California\u2019s occasional Storm Surf, 20 foot waves pounding Huntington Beach. Once. I was terrified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NPR is one of the nation\u2019s most prominent Climate Crisis propaganda sources.\u00a0 Almost nothing they print or broadcast that touches on or includes any reference to weather, storms, temperatures, rainfall, droughts, etc.\u00a0 is real journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":294207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"NPR is one of the nation\u2019s most prominent Climate Crisis propaganda sources.\u00a0 Almost nothing they print or broadcast that touches on or includes any reference to weather, storms, temperatures, rainfall, droughts, etc.\u00a0 is real journalism.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818068,691818056,691825051,691826068,691826067],"class_list":["post-294203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-crisis-propaganda","tag-kqed","tag-storm-surf","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-Surf%C2%B4s-up.jpeg?fit=1600%2C964&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1exd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":335906,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335906","url_meta":{"origin":294203,"position":0},"title":"Beware how government-sponsored media reports cherry-picked hurricane extremes to push a climate crisis.","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/08\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"As my local KQED now ignorantly pushes, hurricane Beryl became more dangerous due to climate change. 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