Remember when Al Gore prophesized that sea levels would rise by up to 20 feet in the near future, all because of global warming caused by failure of Big Government to suppress normal human activity? A new study finds that it is not going to happen:

The research found that the average sea level rise in 2020 was only around 1.5mm per year, or 6 inches per century, according to the paper’s authors, Dutch engineering consultant Hessel Voortman and independent researcher Rob de Vos.

In contrast to what is often breathlessly reported, Voortman found there has been no acceleration in the rise of sea level. What rise there has been has not been consistent between locations, indicating that it is not a global phenomenon.

The Dutch have an interest in how much the sea is actually rising, given that a quarter of the country is below sea level already. However,

Voortman was shocked that no researcher before had performed an analysis of real-world local data.

This is because promoters of the global warming hoax do not live in the real world. They inhabit a make-believe realm of leftist ideology and weaponized hysteria.

The study was also unlike any of its kind in that it was carried out with no external funding, said Voortman, who has spent the last 30 years as a hydraulic engineer working with flood protection and coastal-infrastructure adaptation projects around the world.

Regarding the funding of other studies, follow the money and it will lead you to those who stand to benefit from the global warming hoax.

On a tip from Jack D.

The reasons researchers have gone along with the global warming hoax are not admirable but can be understandable. Many want government funding from a Deep State that aggressively pushes the hoax for the sake of securing more power. Others just don’t want to be fired:

Marty Rowland PhD has been fired from his position as Special Issue Editor at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES). The reason he was given for being fired was his publication of our paper, Carbon Dioxide and a Warming Climate are not problems. The paper has been cited 23 times according to google scholar. It was first published online May 29, 2024, and is already in the top 1% of all 29 million papers followed by Wiley’s Altmetric tracker. It is the #2 paper published in the 83-year history of the AJES.

Undermining the narrative is not permitted. Where moonbats have subverted it, science is not about science. It is about moonbattery.

This has happened before:

His firing for publishing a skeptical article is reminiscent of Wolfgang Wagner resigning over a perfectly reasonable, but counter to the “consensus” paper, by Roy Spencer and William Braswell in 2011, the paper is here and the story is here.

Draining the Swamp in academia will be as monumental a task as draining it in DC. It is also as crucial.

On a tip from Jester.

Dogs may be man’s best friend, but that doesn’t mean moonbats return the loyalty or the affection. The Associated Press discourages dog ownership on the grounds that canines offend the weather:

Dogs are big meat eaters, and meat is a significant contributor to climate change. That is because many of the farm animals, which will become food, release methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Beef is especially impactful, in part because around the world cattle are often raised on land that was illegally deforested. Since trees absorb carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas, cutting them to then raise cattle is a double whammy.

Not having a dog is listed as one of the three top ways you can please the weather gods, along with generating electricity by inefficient means and avoiding air travel.

Jiaying Zhao teaches psychology and sustainability at the University of British Columbia and therefore qualifies as an expert. Instead of dogs, she wants us to bond with rabbits:

“I can adopt 100 bunnies that will not be close to the emissions of a dog, because my dog is a carnivore,” she said.

When they have achieved sufficient political leverage, moonbats will impose this insane religion by force. The perceptible effect on the allegedly problematic climate will be nil.

On a tip from Steve T. Hat tip: Pirate’s Cove.

Will anyone be surprised to hear that Kamela Harris’s stepdaughter Ella Emhoff is crazy as an outhouse rat?

There is good news across the board lately, the Trump Administration having taken us off the course that was leading directly to national ruin. But on the downside, Miss Emhoff is not adjusting to it well.

Ella is particularly disturbed about the climate, which has wreaked havoc on her precarious mental equilibrium:

As any Democrat can explain, the climate crisis that has reduced this poor woman to a neurotic wreck is the fault of Trump supporters.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Forget Russia. Forget even communist China and Islamomaniacal Iran. If one country is a threat to the others, it could be once-great Britain under rule by leftist kooks who are pressing forward with experiments to dim sunlight through geoengineering:

Outdoor field trials which could include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere, or brightening clouds to reflect sunshine, are being considered by scientists as a way to prevent runaway climate change.

The only thing running away is the imagination of moonbats.

As so often in life, the problem is not the problem; the problem is that people think it’s a problem — although whether these people really believe in the global warming hoax is doubtful. Leftists pretend the weather is a perpetual crisis so as to justify seizing our property, lowering our standard of living, and regulating us into a straitjacket.

Plots of the sort Dr. Evil might hatch don’t come cheap:

Aria, the Government’s advanced research and invention funding agency, has set aside £50 million for projects, which will be announced in the coming weeks.

There will be zero benefit to British taxpayers — but potential harm to the entire planet.

The Experts believe that pollution over shipping routes made clouds brighter and therefore more reflective, resulting in dimmer sunlight. They even say that international regulations to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions caused an increase in global warming.

More unintended consequences can be expected if ideologically driven fanatics deliberately tamper with the atmosphere to fix something that isn’t broken.

On a tip from KirklesWorth. Hat tip: Breitbart.