New York Post Misses the Boat on Sea Level Rise
By
Anthony Watts
March 13, 2024
A story published in the New York Post (NYP) on March 3rd 2024 by Carl Campanile has the alarming headline: Sea levels around NYC could surge up to 13 inches in 2030s due to climate change: state study. The story and study cited is false, because it relies on an impossible climate model scenario known as RCP8.5, which has been debunked by actual climate scientists as we reported here and here.
Surprisingly, just a day later on March 4th, 2024 the editorial board of the NYP published this headline: NYS DEC’s ‘sky is falling, seas are rising’ lunacy. Both stories are about the same report, an assessment done by the New York state Department of Environmental Conservations (NYDEC), which claimed that sea levels could rise by more than a foot in some areas around New York City in a decade or less.
With dueling headlines a day apart, it’s hard to really know what the position of the NYP is, but of the two, the latter headline is far more measured and realistic.
As mentioned previously, the RCP8.5 climate model used to make these claims is implausible if not impossible, and has come to be accepted in the climate scenarios community as being an unrealistic projection.
https://climaterealism.com/2024/03/new-york-post-misses-the-boat-on-sea-level-rise/
