{"id":407791,"date":"2025-10-12T14:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T12:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=407791"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T12:11:53","slug":"false-yahoo-news-cape-coral-isnt-sinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=407791","title":{"rendered":"False, Yahoo News, Cape Coral Isn\u2019t Sinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\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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Yahoo News\u2019 reprinted an item from The Cool Down, titled \u201cExperts warn that beloved US coastal town could soon vanish off map entirely: \u2018I\u2019m scared,\u2019\u201d<\/a> which claims Cape Coral, Florida will disappear soon due to climate change induced sea level rise. This claim is absolutely false. Actual sea level rise data is well below the extreme scenarios promoted in the story the article is based on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cool Down story repeats exaggerated projections from the organization called Climate Central, suggesting that Cape Coral, Florida, will \u201cvanish\u201d under rising seas by 2150. It asserts that Florida\u2019s average sea level could rise 3.6 feet by the end of the century and that 17,000 homes statewide could face annual flooding by 2050. Actual measured sea level data shows this to be impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Yahoo News reposting also repeats the tired talking point that \u201ca warmer planet acts as \u2018steroids\u2019 for weather,\u201d claiming more frequent hurricanes and floods. Yet data shows no clear global trend in tropical cyclone frequency<\/strong><\/a>. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s (NOAA) Historical Hurricane Tracks database<\/a> similarly shows no upward trend in U.S. hurricane landfalls over the past century. Climate at a Glance<\/em> also demonstrates that there is no upwards trend in U.S. hurricanes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article quotes one resident saying, \u201cI\u2019m scared. It\u2019s really weird. It\u2019s weird to think about that it\u2019s not gonna be here when I\u2019m gone.\u201d That misplaced and overwhelming sense of fear is precisely what Climate Central\u2019s alarming \u201cdrowning maps\u201d are designed to provoke. It is not, however, justified by what Florida\u2019s sea-level data actually show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to NOAA\u2019s\u00a0tide gauge record for Fort Myers (Station 8725520<\/a>), which is the nearest to Cape Coral, the relative sea-level trend near Cape Coral is\u00a03.64 millimeters per year, with a 95% confidence interval of \u00b10.42 mm\/year<\/strong>, based on continuous monthly mean data from 1965 to 2024. That equates to\u00a01.19 feet per century<\/strong>, as seen in the graphic below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long-term rise is steady and gradual\u2014not accelerating catastrophically, and less than a third of 3.6-foot projection that Climate Central is lying about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, the tide gauge shows reality; the computer model shows fantasy. Even if the Fort Myers trend continued unchanged, simple math shows it would take roughly 300 years<\/strong> to reach the water levels Climate Central claims are possible by 2150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florida\u2019s sea-level record is also influenced by local land subsidence, not just ocean volume changes. As NOAA notes, relative sea level is affected by both global sea changes and regional ground motion. In Cape Coral\u2019s case, this modest rise includes such localized effects. There is no evidence of a dramatic sea level acceleration in recent decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even accounting for local subsidence, for nearly 60 years Cape Coral\u2019s sea-level trend has been consistent, moderate, and predictable. The total rise of about one foot per century is entirely manageable with conventional coastal infrastructure, drainage, and adaptation strategies\u2014just as Floridians have managed tides, storm surges, and erosion for generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate Central\u2019s projections are not measurements\u2014they are computer model outputs layered onto maps to produce alarming visualizations. These \u201csurging seas\u201d graphics have been widely criticized for failing to align with observed trends. Climate Realism<\/em> has debunked similar false projections and maps made by Climate Central for locations such as, Miami<\/a>, Norfolk<\/a>, and San Francisco<\/a>, previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Climate Realism<\/em> has repeatedly shown<\/a>, sea-level rise rates at U.S. tide gauges have remained stable for more than a century, even as atmospheric CO\u2082 increased. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change  AR6 report<\/a> found that there is \u201clow confidence in observed acceleration in sea-level rise at the regional scale,\u201d<\/strong> further undercutting the premise that Florida is facing a rapid inundation crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article substitutes emotion for evidence and cites the anecdotal fears of residents, mislead by the mainstream media over the past two decades with false claims about climate change induced sea level rise, rather than real world data. Climate Central\u2019s maps do not represent measured science; they represent model-driven marketing for climate fear. The real-world numbers from NOAA\u2019s tide gauges make that clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalism is supposed to illuminate truth and inform the audience rather than incite unwarranted panic. By promoting unfounded projections that \u201cCape Coral could vanish,\u201d Yahoo News and The Cool Down are doing just the opposite. That\u2019s a sad indictment of the two media outlets\u2019 reporting standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yahoo News\u2019 reprinted an item from The Cool Down, titled\u00a0\u201cExperts warn that beloved US coastal town could soon vanish off map entirely: \u2018I\u2019m scared,\u2019\u201d\u00a0which claims Cape Coral, Florida will disappear soon due to climate change induced sea level rise. This claim is absolutely false. Actual sea level rise data is well below the extreme scenarios promoted in the story the article is based on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":407796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"Explore the truth about Cape Coral's sea-level rise with accurate data debunking claims of imminent flooding. 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