Climate Change - an open debate (not so much
From the Sydney, Australia
Daily Telegraph:
Climate change science being stifled by NSW Labor bureaucrats
SENIOR bureaucrats in the state government's environment department have routinely stopped publishing scientific papers which challenge the federal government's claims of sea level rises threatening Australia's coastline, a former senior public servant said yesterday.
Doug Lord helped prepare six scientific papers which examined 120 years of tidal data from a gauge at Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour.
The tide data revealed sea levels were rising at a rate of about 1mm a year or less - and the rise was not accelerating but was constant.
"The tidal data we found would mean sea levels would rise by about 100mm by the end of the century," Mr Lord said yesterday.
"However the (federal) government benchmark which drives their climate change policy is that sea levels are expected to rise by 900mm by the end of the century and the rate of rise is accelerating."
Mr Lord, who has 35 years experience in coastal engineering, said senior bureaucrats within the then Department of Environment Climate Change and Water had rejected or stopped publication of five papers between late 2009 and September this year.
Goes back to my old argument -- if there was
actual measurable and increasing sea-level change, we would be seeing a lot of activity in port cities like Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Rotterdam, Dubai, Los Angeles, Le Havre, Southampton as these facilities scrambled to compensate for the rise.
Too many of these "articles" are based on models and not on actual boots-on-the-ground measurement.
A big tip 'o the hat to Anthony for the
link
Posted by DaveH at December 1, 2011 12:31 PM