New Study: ‘Approximately 95% of suitable locations show no statistically significant acceleration of the rate of sea level rise’ – Remaining 5% that see sea level rise due to ‘local, non-climatic phenomena’ – Published in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
By Admin
February 21, 2026
8:45 am
WUWT Leads The Way Again
by Willis Eschenbach
I came across a most interesting study about the claimed acceleration in sea levels. For fifty years, we’ve been told that global warming would cause the rate of sea level rise to accelerate. The theory was that increasing temperatures would both cause the ocean water to expand and would also melt land ice and glaciers. Both of these would combine to cause acceleration in the rate of sea level rise.
The study in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering is entitled A Global Perspective on Local Sea Level Changes.
The study in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering is entitled A Global Perspective on Local Sea Level Changes.
From the abstract (emphasis mine):
We used two datasets with local sea level information all over the globe. In both datasets, we found approximately 15% of the available sets suitable to establish the rate of rise in 2020.
Geographic coverage of the suitable locations is poor, with the majority of suitable locations in the Northern Hemisphere. Latin America and Africa are severely under-represented. Statistical tests were run on all selected datasets, taking acceleration of sea level rise as a hypothesis.
In both datasets, approximately 95% of the suitable locations show no statistically significant acceleration of the rate of sea level rise. The investigation suggests that local, non-climatic phenomena are a plausible cause of the accelerated sea level rise observed at the remaining 5% of the suitable locations.
I laughed out loud when I read this. Why? Because for the last fifteen years, I’ve been saying the same thing. Here are my past posts on the subject, along with an AI summary of each one. When I collected them all up, I was surprised at how many analyses I’d written on the question
https://www.climatedepot.com/2026/02/21/new-study-approximately-95-of-suitable-locations-show-no-statistically-significant-acceleration-of-the-rate-of-sea-level-rise-remaiing-5-that-is-rising-due-to-local-non-climatic-phenomena-ar/
