{"id":327482,"date":"2024-05-08T11:34:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T09:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=327482"},"modified":"2024-05-08T11:34:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T09:34:53","slug":"the-washington-post-sinks-even-lower-falsely-reporting-southern-coastal-sea-level-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=327482","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post Sinks Even Lower, Falsely Reporting Southern Coastal Sea Level Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dauphin Island, Alabama<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Washington Post (WaPo) ran a story recently<\/a> saying that sea level rise has become unprecedented on the east and southeast coast of the United States. This can be seen in the map in the screen capture above. The story is extremely misleading when not outright false. WaPo fails to explain that the areas it highlights are naturally unstable with their shores waxing and waning regularly. There is no long-term consistent trend of rapidly rising sea levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story THE DROWNING SOUTH \u2013 WHERE SEAS ARE RISING AT ALARMING SPEED<\/a> by Chris Mooney, Brady Dennis, Kevin Crowe and John Muyskens makes some highly questionable claims:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most rapid sea level surges on Earth is besieging the American South, forcing a reckoning for coastal communities across eight U.S. states, a Washington Post analysis has found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At more than a dozen tide <\/strong>gauges spanning from Texas to North Carolina, <\/strong>sea levels are at least 6 inches higher than they were in 2010 \u2014 a change similar to what occurred over the previous five decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the story, WaPo presents this table:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 1 \u2013 Table from WaPo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

One of the featured places by WaPo is Dauphin Island, Alabama, which is a good example to demonstrate how WaPo has presented misleading and outright false information.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 2. Dauphin Island, Alabama<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Dauphin Island is essentially a sand bar, a barrier island indicated by its elongated shape. Barrier islands, by definition are fragile, being affected by many things, according to HowStuffWorks<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n