{"id":364583,"date":"2025-02-05T10:58:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=364583"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:58:31","slug":"new-study-sea-levels-around-japan-are-not-rising-nor-accelerating-since-the-1800s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=364583","title":{"rendered":"New Study: Sea Levels Around Japan Are \u2018Not Rising, Nor Accelerating\u2019 Since The 1800s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NoTrickZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Kenneth Richard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a region of the world where tide gauges are not compromised by land subsidence or uplift, sea levels have not been observed to be rising since measurements began in 1894.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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According to a new study<\/a><\/strong>, when sea levels rise it usually has more to do with declining land movement (subsidence) or 20- to 60-year oscillations than it has to do with thermostatic sea level change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn Japan, there are many long-term trend tide gauges recording the sea levels since 1894. The tide gauges of Hosojima, Wajima, Tonoura, and Oshoro, not suffering from subsidence or isostasy, show multi-decadal fluctuations of periodicity quasi-20 and quasi-60 years, but not rising, nor accelerating, relative sea levels.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Source:\u00a0Boretti, 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another study published earlier in the year by the same author (Boretti, 2024<\/a><\/strong>) indicates the sea level pattern around Japan is similarly occurring around the Polynesian island of Tuvalu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sea level changes are said to be influenced more by multi-decadal oscillations and land subsidence than by a global change in the amount of water stored in ocean basins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe significant increase in sea level observed at Tuvalu\u2019s current tide gauge is attributed more to multidecadal oscillations, significantly affecting short-term records, and the subsidence of the tide gauge, rather than the global thermosteric contribution.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe suggested analysis aligns with prior research, reinforcing the perspective that the sea levels are gently rising, and the surfaced area of Pacific islands and atolls is not diminishing, contrary to inaccuracies found in selective studies that emphasize certain data while disregarding others.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a region of the world where tide gauges are not compromised by land subsidence or uplift, sea levels have not been observed to be rising since measurements began in 1894.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":364727,"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_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"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":[691819026,691833051,691833050,691818989],"class_list":["post-364583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-japan","tag-pacific-islands-and-atolls","tag-polynesian-island-of-tuvalu","tag-sea-levels","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1wQn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":290022,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290022","url_meta":{"origin":364583,"position":0},"title":"Climate Morons Blame the Wrong Factors for Sea level Rise!","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/05\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"By Jim Steele Climate change drives less than a millimeter a year of sea level rise. 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