CLIMATE FACT 5 - 8" PLUS 11"

CRUCIAL GLOBAL WARMING FACT 5

WORLDWIDE SEA LEVELS ROSE 8 INCHES OVER THE LAST 100 YEARS.

BUT NOW, THEY ARE RISING EVEN FASTER. THE BEST COMPUTER MODELS SAY

THEY PROBABLY WILL RISE ANOTHER 10-12 INCHES, IN JUST 30 YEARS

When people ask, `Have we been able to measure, and prove, that sea-levels are actually rising?', the correct answer is, "Yes, absolutely. We know, beyond doubt or dispute, that ocean levels around the entire planet rose an average of 8 inches, between the years 1917, and 2017. Why do we know the number for THAT period, in specific? Because, in 1917, the US Navy began a massive rebuilding program for its naval bases, partly to get ready for World War One, and partly to begin major transitions from coal-fired steam engines, to liquid-fueled diesel engines, for our ships. When they rebuilt those bases, they measured ocean levels with greater accuracy than ever before, and when 2017 arrived, they realized it would offer a good time to make measurements for an exact century.

More recently, we also know, from various types of satellite measurements (including satellites designed to make highly accurate sea-level measurements, for a project called "GRACE" (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment)), that the oceans have been rising (on average) about 3 mm every year from 1993-2020; that increase translates into about 1.2 inches, every 10 years (https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/78/9/15/3359654).

And, we also know that over the past decade, the rates of increase also have been increasing, above the 3 mm/year average that applied between 1993 and 2020. The "rate of increase" is now becoming even faster and faster, every year. In other words, sea level rises are now on "exponential curve", which in practical terms means, "They worse they get, the more they are going to get even worse than that, even faster."

Since "climate change deniers" (aka 'climate deniers', 'paid disrupters', 'mouth-whores', and similar terms) cannot deny those facts, their defense (against having to openly admit and face up to the actual facts, and truth) usually involve spewing out other numbers, factoids, distractions, and clutter, in deliberate efforts to clutter up, confuse, entangle, and interfere with any useful debates or analyses, with the deliberate intent of making the numbers (and the issue) complicated, hard to follow, hard to understand, impossible to remember, and impossible to explain to anyone else.

So, to fight back against THAT strategy, we need to simplify things; and, the heading above is an effort to do exactly that.

It isn't going to be easy to accomplish that. There are indeed numerous facts that are relevant, in various ways, including the facts described below. So, one of the strategies that climate activists can take, in debates involving sea level rise, is to ignore the clutter and distractions, keep returning again and again to only 2 or 3 specific numbers, and repeatedly ask climate deniers to either deny, or admit, those specific numbers. "8 inches in only 100 years" is a deeply frightening and disturbing number, in itself; and, it has been clearly and directly established, and admitted, not just by the US Navy, but as of July 2025, by the Department of Energy, as well. So, climate advocates need to do whatever they need to do, to make sure that millions and millions of voters are directly confronted by, and become aware of, the facts, and the truth ("8 inches, worldwide, in only 100 years, and now it's rising even faster"), by the time the 2026 elections arrive.

The statements of fact, above, can be understood more clearly, in light of the following analyses, and questions. Any commentary or questions, below, are not claimed to be "hard and provable facts"; nevertheless, they are worth serious attention, and might be useful for adding more weight to any arguments that "climate change deniers" belong more in the category of "people who lie, to try to gain some type of advantage", than the category of "honestly searching for truth".

Fact 5.1: When Donald Trump announced that he was running for re-election, in 2024 (in a speech he gave from Mar-A-Lago, on November 15, 2022), he made a statement about global warming and sea-level rise, which was so utterly, grotesquely, tragically, horrifying WRONG, and FALSE, that it desperately needs to be revisited. He stated that global warming threatened to cause ocean levels to rise "by an eighth of an inch, in three hundred years".

That single, simple statement, by him, established what millions of his followers and supporters continue to believe, today. In other words, they believe something that is simply, totally, and utterly false, because Trump told them an outright lie.

And, it must be pointed out that he made that statement, AFTER serving as President for a full term. Therefore, people should seriously wonder, and ask, how he could possibly get through four full years in office, as President, and as Commander in Chief of the entire US Navy, without ever being told, even once, the truth about one of the most important things currently happening on this planet, even though the Navy KNEW he was repeatedly saying things about global warming and sea level rise that are just plain false. Those are questions that genuinely need to be asked of any Navy officials who were in the room, when Trump was being briefed about challenges the Navy was facing. What did they tell Trump, about global warming and sea level rise? Did they somehow enable and support the totally and utterly false "an eighth of an inch, in 300 years" claim that Trump made, after finishing his entire first term?

If Trump actually believed that totally false claim – and, if he continues to believe it, today – then that belief can help explain, and perhaps even justify, all of the things he has done to shut down any efforts to create and use "renewable" or "green" energy, and shift heavily back to more oil and gas, and more and more CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. So, reporters and journalists should confront him, repeatedly, with how completely, totally, utterly, and provably FALSE his statement of November 2022 was; and, they should ask him, repeatedly, not to "apologize" (he has a fixed and rigid policy and practice of never, ever apologizing, no matter how wrong he may have been, because, in his view, "apologizing only shows weakness"), but to "update" his statement.

The bottom line is, this nation, and every other nation, government, and human on this planet, needs to know whether the entire Trump administration, and the Republican castrati in Congress, have based their position and policy on global warming (which can be summarized as, "We need more oil and gas, and we absolutely do not care about CO2 emissions") on a genuinely tragic failure to know about, and understand, a huge, crucial, absolutely critical fact, about global warming and sea-level rise. Trump is well-known to surround himself with "Yes-People" (that is the polite term), and the "Yes-People" he has surrounded himself with may be "sheltering and protecting" him from a hugely, critically, crucially important fact, which is giving us dire and dreadful warnings about what is going to become even worse, in the future. Therefore, anyone and everyone in a position to do so (read: reporters who can ask him questions, during his press appearances) needs to do whatever it takes, to forcibly place a true fact (along with the reliable sources of that fact, i.e., the US Navy, and now, a report by his own hand-picked Department of Energy) directly in front of him, and force him to at least see it, and hear it (repeatedly, as many times as necessary). Even if he refuses to acknowledge it, respond to it, or change any plans and policies after he has been confronted with it, he needs to be informed about it, be confronted by it, and be warned that it is indeed true, as at least some of his underlings fully know.

As a final note, Trump was off by a factor of 64-fold, in the distance he claimed (1/8 inch is only 1/64th of 8 inches), AND, by a factor of 3-fold, in the timing he claimed (300 years, versus 100 years). So, multiply those two number, and his claim was off by a factor of 192-fold, which is close enough to round it up to 200-fold. So, when it comes to global warming and sea level rise, it's fair to say that Trump's claims are wrong, by a factor of 200-fold. And that's not a bad number to use, since it's not difficult, or complicated, for voters to remember the phrase, "off by 200-fold", if they hear about it in a logical and convincing way.

Fact 5.2: As stated above, sea levels all around the globe rose 8 inches, during the 100 years between 1917 and 2017. At least, according to the U.S. Navy. And, that source merits extra weight, but it also raises a first troubling question, described above, and a second troubling question, described below.

First, please ponder the "extra weight" that the Navy's 8-inch number deserves. In their line of work, the US Navy NEEDS to know the true, hard, actual facts, not just about sea level rise, but about everything else that is happening, in the oceans. And they are better positioned and better qualified than anyone else on this entire planet, to know the actual truth about rising sea levels.

Why? Because it is NOT enough to only know what boats do, on oceans; instead, sailors and commanders ALSO need to know what the ocean is doing, and will do. Naval commanders regard their boats as one of two partners, locked in a partnership that must somehow be made to work, no matter what happens, or else everyone on that boat (including the commanders) will die. The boat is one of the partners, and the ocean is the other. People whose work, careers, futures, successes and failures, and very lives depend on staying afloat, need to know, and need to be able to use, everything they can know, about how the ocean they are riding on top of is going to behave, in any given day, week, or month. If America wants its Navy to be REALLY good, REALLY prepared, and REALLY lethal against skilled enemies that will try their absolute level best to kill and sink OUR boats if a war ever breaks out, then our Navy needs to know what the oceans beneath those boats are doing, and will be doing in the coming days, weeks, and months, as the months, the weather, and the seasons constantly and relentlessly keep changing. As a result of the combination of: (i) those needs; and, (ii) the multi-billion-dollar budgets the Navy receives every year, year after year, the US Navy knows far, far more than anyone else, about how the water itself, in any ocean, actually behaves, and how it is gradually changing, over time, year after year after year. The Navy knows vastly more about how the water itself behaves, than any "marine institute", since marine institutes spend most of their time, efforts, and budgets studying the marine life in those oceans, rather than the water itself.

Now, for the second troubling question. Every good conservative and/or Republican, in Congress and anywhere else in the federal government, knows that the people who have devoted their lives to serving in the Navy are true, genuine, and reliable patriots, and truly and genuinely have the best interests of America – including its success, and its survival (and, a cynic might add, its ability to keep funding that Navy, not just this year and next year, but in every future decade), as their highest goals. Therefore . . . any normal and/or naive person might think that any and all conservatives and/or Republicans in Congress would actively want to know, and would actively seek out, and find out, what the top commanders of the US Navy think, say, believe, and do, about sea level rise, how it affects our Navy, and how it is being affected by global warming, and climate change.

However, it strongly appears that the exact and total opposite is actually happening. Apparently, Republicans in Congress actively do NOT want to know what the US Navy knows, or says, about sea level rise. Why not? Because, if they actually knew the truth, and if it could be shown and proven that they knew the truth, that would put a huge, heavy, almost unbearable burden on them, to actually act. And, it might seriously, and perhaps even severely, threaten and jeopardize their chances of being re-elected, since they belong to the party which has done so much, not just for years, but for decades, to deny that sea levels are actually rising, and to pretend that "global warming" and "climate change" and "rising sea levels" are just hoaxes, and radical, unsupported, speculative, unreliable and unscientific claims that should not be believed, or trusted, because they are coming from wild-eyed, misguided, threat-to-America liberal Democrats . . . rather than actually coming from honest, sincere, trustworthy patriots, like the leaders of our Navy.

And – sadly, and even tragically – the Navy apparently has quietly acceded to the desire of Republicans, in Congress, to not know the truth, about rising sea levels. The lives, work, careers, and budgets of the Navy's top leaders depend on keeping Republicans in Congress happy, or at least willing to go along, and Navy leaders do NOT want to confront, and antagonize, the members of Congress who control their budgets. Republicans in Congress do NOT want to be confronted by facts they do NOT want to hear, especially if those facts can be set forth so clearly, and directly, that they would seem to be deliberately taunting, undercutting, and questioning the skills, the judgment, and even the sanity of those Republicans.

Therefore, dozens of official Navy reports, and unofficial articles about the Navy, and even YouTube videos of navy officers giving speeches and such, talk about how ready the Navy is, and how ready it absolutely must be, to meet the challenges of rising sea levels. But, none of those reports, articles, or videos, issued by the Navy itself, say what the numbers actually are. Or, at least, the people who wrote this website, and who kept digging until they discovered an actual number (as admitted by an expert who works in the Navy, and who is in the ideal position to know what that number is) could find even a single instance, where an actual employee of the US Navy was willing to say, and admit, how much sea levels have actually risen, over the past 100 years or so. If anyone can find any actual, official, publicly available, issued-by-the-Navy reports of how much sea levels have risen, over the past 100 years or so, stated in inches, centimeters, or any other actual unit of measurement, they are asked to cite it, and either send us a copy, or tell us where we can find it.

Instead, the ONLY such admission we have ever seen, was tucked away in an obscure article that almost no one has ever heard about, in a scientific journal that very few people have ever heard about. That article was entitled "Norfolk: A case study in sea-level rise", written by a reporter named David Kramer, and it appeared in the May 2016 issue of a journal called Physics Today. When we found it, it could be downloaded, at no cost, at https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/69/5/22/415526.

For context, the places in and around Norfolk, Virginia, where the inlet to Chesapeake Bay and the mouth of the James River come together, is an absolutely ideal place to harbor large ships and aircraft carriers from storms, place all kinds of maintenance and shipyard facilities, and let the ships get back out into deep water, as rapidly as possible; and, instead of having to go under bridges, the ships float over a below-water segment of highway tunnel, on their way in and out. So, it became the place where the US put, not just one or two, but nearly 20 different military stations (a map can be found at www.militarytownadvisor.com/blog/2016/11/7/202/hampton-roads-military-bases). That "complex" of multiple military facilities kept being expanded, until it became the largest military complex anywhere in the world, and it is hugely, critically, crucially important, to everything the Navy does in the Atlantic, and/or concerning Europe. And, it is wrestling with severe problems of rising sea levels, and ground subsidence caused by pumping huge quantities of water out of the aquifers beneath the harbor area. That combination of factors made it interesting, so Kramer (as a reporter for Physics Today) went there to look around, and spoke directly with, and directly quoted, two Navy officers who were experts in that subject (i,.e., sea level rise, around Norfolk), as well as a number of other, unnamed people working on rising water levels around Norfolk.

However, when it came time for "the big reveal", Kramer had to write it in his own words, rather than being allowed to directly quote anyone who worked for the Navy. Kramer's words were, "Sea level in Norfolk has risen 46 cm in the past 100 years. About 20 cm of that is attributable to the global rise in sea level."

So, there you have it. The actual numbers, finally, candidly, and honestly admitted, but only for an obscure scientific journal, and only because the words were written by someone who was not actually in the Navy. The top environmental and facility managers talked candidly with Kramer, and told him was what going on, and Kramer, as a science rather than political or military reporter, put what he learned from them, into his article. Since the journal was Physics Today, he described the distance in centimeters; and, "about 20 cm" of GLOBAL sea level rise is "about 7.9 inches", during the hundred years from 1917-2016.

Fact 5.3: To add still more strength to the Navy's numbers, in a report released on July 29, 2025, the federal Department of Energy also admitted that sea levels had, indeed, risen about eight inches, in about a hundred years, starting in 1900. However, everything in or about that report immediately triggered cries of "False, and foul!" from nearly every legitimate climate scientist who spoke or wrote about it in public. Among other things, that report was created by five scientists who were personally selected by the Secretary of Energy under Trump, Chris Wright, a longtime advocate of NOT controlling greenhouse gas emissions; and, the five-person panel included only people who had previously expressed views and opinions that Secretary Wright felt comfortable with. And, yet, even so, at least the Department finally admitted at least part of the truth, about how sea levels have risen 8 inches, just in the past roughly 100 years.

Official DoE information about that report can be found at www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-issues-report-evaluating-impact-greenhouse-gasses-us-climate-invites (which quickly raised eyebrows, among skilled and qualified scientists, since "gases" is the much more widely used and standard plural form of "gas", while the spelling "gasses" normally is used as a verb, instead). Info about objections to and criticisms of the report, by large numbers of climate scientists, can be found via a Google search of the word combination "department energy global warming report 2025". And, the group which compiled the report was deliberately disbanded on the same day the report was issued, presumably to prevent them from being questioned or challenged collectively, except perhaps at a Congressional hearing.

Information about the extremely skeptical and critical responses to that report, from climate scientists, can be found at web pages such as insideclimatenews.org/news/02092025/scientists-respond-to-trump-energy-climate-report/ (sample quote: "This report makes a mockery of science. It relies on ideas that were rejected long ago, supported by misrepresentations of the body of scientific knowledge, omissions of important facts, arm waving, anecdotes, and confirmation bias,” said Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, in a statement accompanying the review. “This report makes it clear DOE has no interest in engaging with the scientific community” (and, it should be noted that Texas A&M is a notably conservative, patriotic, Republican-leaning college) and insideclimatenews.org/news/10092025/pamela-mcelwee-energy-department-greenhouse-gas-report/ (which contains a link that enables a free download of a detailed (459 pages) extremely critical analysis of the DoE report, co-signed by 85 climate scientists; and, it also should be noted that "Inside Climate News" won a Pulitzer Prize, for national reporting).

And, anyone trying to reach their own assessment of the DoE report should also know at least a few things about the Secretary of Energy who arranged it. For anyone not familiar with Chris Wright: before he was chosen by Trump to be Secretary of Energy, Wright was the CEO of America's second largest fracking company, which works for oil and gas companies, to help them get more oil out of the ground, so that people and companies can burn it. So, his personal history, work, position, and fortune all support his belief that burning more and more oil and gas is a good thing, not a bad thing. During the months after the 2024 election, while Trump was selecting his cabinet members, Wright very much wanted, and actively lobbied and campaigned, to be named Secretary of Energy, and a crucial part of Wright's efforts involved what many observers call "swearing fealty" to Trump, which required Wright to find ways to assure Trump that, no matter what might happen, Trump could absolutely trust and rely upon Wright (and, on the Department of Energy, if Wright was put in charge of it) to actively, vocally, and aggressively do anything Wright could do, to support and implement Trump's "Drill, baby, drill" programs and goals, with no qualms about global warming, or sea level rise (as an aside, for anyone not familiar with the phrase, "swearing fealty", it is a medieval phrase, which refers to someone called "a vassal" giving a solemn oath to be loyal to "his lord", in exchange for the right to farm land that the "lord" would grant to him). So, Wright clearly is not impartial, or objective (or, as a "vassal", even able to exercise independent judgment, except in trying to think up ways to please "his lord"), when it comes to wanting, or trying, to honestly understand (or accurately report and publicize) any unpleasant and threatening facts about climate change and global warming.

Therefore, it is hoped that this website can and will trigger an effort, among climate scientists and activists, to use the first-draft descriptions and analyses herein as a starting point, and improve upon them, until a list of proven, rock-solid 'macro-facts' emerges, which can be used to help, not just Democrats, but ANY AND ALL politicians and candidates who truly want to do what is right and good, for this planet, and for future generations, to formulate a set of direct, challenging, and probing questions, for people such as Secretary Wright.

As just one possible approach we would like people to consider, a Representative or Senator who is on a Congressional committee that is questioning someone like Secretary Wright, could go through list of "macro-facts" (after the fact listing has been vetted, analyzed carefully, and edited and improved, by groups of full-time and respected client scientists), and ask questions such as, "Secretary Wright, would you please summarize, in your own words, what each of these so-called 'macro-facts' appear to be showing, and warning, about what is happening to this planet? And, would you please state whether you can point to any errors, or inaccuracies, in any of the asserted facts, in this list? And, as we go through them, would you please find an appropriate point to let us know whether you agree with President Trump's claim that sea levels will rise only 1/8th of an inch, in 300 years? Or, will you publicly admit that he was completely wrong, in that claim, by a factor of almost 200-fold? And, by the way, before you begin, I want every American, and every Congressperson on this committee, to know that I am not trying to ambush you, or embarrass you. I sent you a letter, in advance, listing the exact questions I am asking you now. I did so, so that you would have time to prepare to answer these questions. So, now that you have had time to think about the questions, analyze the macro-facts, and prepare your answers – please tell us what your analysis is, of these so-called macro-facts. Let's start with the first one in the list. It asserts that, between 1980 and 2020, the amount of snow and ice cover, in the arctic ocean, was destroyed, and totally removed, over an area that was 125 times the size of the state of New Jersey. Do you regard that claim to be false? Or, will you concede that it appears to be true, based on the best available evidence, which – in this matter – was created by satellite photographs?"

Fact 5.4: The warning in the 2nd and 3rd lines of the red-font heading, at the top of this page, require attention, explanation, and links to help anyone find the source information which that warning is based upon. Those words say, BUT NOW, [WORLDWIDE SEA LEVELS] ARE RISING EVEN FASTER. THE BEST COMPUTER MODELS SAY THEY PROBABLY WILL RISE ANOTHER 10-12 INCHES, IN JUST 30 YEARS.

In 2022, a group of federal agencies called the "Interagency Task Force on Sea Level Change" issued a comprehensive update, describing what the best and most sophisticated computer models were predicting and projecting, about how high sea levels are likely to rise, along the American coastlines, during the 30-year span from 2020 through 2050. The agencies involved in the task force included the EPA, the Dept. of Defense, the Dept. of Homeland Security, NASA, NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency), the US Army Corps of Engineers, and the US Geological Survey. Although the report was issued during the Biden Administration – which is all the grounds that devoted Trump supporters, and Fox News, and "conservative pundits and podcasters," might need to at least try to dismiss it, criticize it, and attack it as radical liberal leftist garbage – any efforts to attack it should require the attackers to explain how they can overcome each of the following five facts:
1. the fact that the work included agencies such as the Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Defense, and the Geological Survey, all of which, even if they contain a few "radical liberals and leftists", certainly are not dominated by them, and have sufficient majorities of "solid conservatives" to enable them to block any radical liberals from being able to hijack and take control over that type of work;
2. the fact that the work mainly involved updating an earlier version that had been released during the first Trump presidency;
3. the fact that the work mainly involved performing, and then interpreting, so-called "computer runs," which are generated by having powerful computers analyze input data, which had been gathered over a preceding period of about 40 years, in most cases;
4. the fact that most of the "input data" the computers were processing, in those computer runs, came from either of two sources: (i) entirely non-partisan, non-political tide gauges, at thousands of coastal locations, nearly all of which have been there for decades, and in many cases more than a century; or, (ii) entirely non-partisan, non-political satellites, carrying non-partisan, non-political measuring devices (such as "ultra-short laser pulses" that will bounce off of ocean surfaces, allowing detectors on the satellites to measure millions of data points in a short amount of time, and then generate numerical averages based on millions of measurements); and,
5. the fact that every single person working with that "Interagency Task Force" remained fully aware, at all times, that the predictions and projections they were helping to create, would indeed, and will indeed, be compared against what will actually happen, along America's coastlines, during the time span they were analyzing; and, if their work turns out to be inept, incompetent, or corrupted by partisan politics, that will be discovered soon enough to discredit them, and to discredit the work they did, in summarizing what the computer models said.
Accordingly, the five facts listed above should be sufficient to convince anyone who is willing to listen to reason, that the 2022 computer modeling reports should be taken seriously (or, at least, much, much, MUCH more seriously than the Dept. of Energy's report, mentioned above, created by five hand-picked friends of an oil company CEO who had already sworn that he would support Trump's "Drill, Baby, Drill" policies, no matter what).
Stated simply, the 2022 interagency report was, and is, and will remain, the best and most sophisticated computer modeling that has ever been done, to make science-based predictions of what is going to happen along the coastlines of America during the coming decades, until someone creates an even better computer model. If any Trump-supporters want to dispute THAT statement, offered herein as a plain statement of fact, they are free to try, and they are asked to explain why they think that statement is wrong, and send us the name of any other computer model they think is better, with a link, so we can find it.

The report can be found, and downloaded at no cost, at earth.gov/sealevel/us; and, various summaries and introductions also can be downloaded via the "pull-down menus" near the top right corner of that page. A few of the "highlights" (or, "deeply threatening and dreadful warnings", if you prefer) can be summarized briefly as follows:

1. In only 30 years, from 2020 to 2050, sea levels along the U.S. coasts are expected to rise an average of 10 to 12 inches. However, the rises will not be equal, on the different coasts. The Atlantic (East) coast is likely to suffer 10-14" rises; the Gulf Coast, 14-18 inches; the West Coast, 4-8 inches; the Caribbean, 8-10 inches; and Hawaii, 6-8 inches.
2. MINOR (but nevertheless, seriously destructive and disruptive) floods are expected to occur, on average, MORE THAN TEN TIMES AS OFTEN as they occur today; and, MAJOR floods are expected to occur FIVE times as often as they occur today.
3. So, here are a couple of "rate comparison" numbers. An 8" rise, over 100 years (i.e., from 1917, through 2017), established a "baseline" rate of about 1 inch, every 12.5 years (i.e., there are exactly 8 "chunks" of 12.5 years, every hundred years; as a simple division problem, 8/100 = 0.125). By contast, a rise of 11 inches (i.e., the mid-point, between the 10 to 12 numbers), in only 30 years, is a much greater rate, which is 1 inch, every 3.667 years.
In other words, the rate of sea level rise during the NEXT 30 years (i.e., between 2020 and 2050), which is predicted by the hands-down, far-and-away BEST computer model ever created on this subject, is 3.4 times faster than occurred during 1917-2017 (i.e., 12.5 years for each inch of rise during the past century, divided by only 3.667 years for each inch of rise from 2020-2050, is equal to a "increase rate ratio" of 3.41 times faster, in the future, than in the past).

Here's a graph, to help illustrate and explain what is happening:

In addition to the report described above, which focused on America, an “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” (IPCC) (which was organized by the United Nations, and which cooperated with the combination of US agencies listed above) issued a worldwide report, saying pretty much the same things, and describing how much damage those amounts of sea level rise would inflict on other nations. If anyone would like to see a case study in how `howling disasters, coming at us, hard and fast’ are summarized when scientists and diplomats are required to work together, the entire report can be downloaded, for free, from www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/. If anyone would like a news-article summaries, they can be found at web pages such as insideclimatenews.org/news/09082021/global-climate-panels-report-no-part-of-the-planet-will-be-spared-ipcc-science-cop-extremes/; www.conservation.org/blog/ipcc-report-climate-change-could-soon-outpace-humanitys-ability-to-adapt; and, www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/world/un-ipcc-climate-report-adaptation-impacts/index.html (entitled, `Delay means death: We're running out of ways to adapt to the climate crisis, new report shows'). In addition, a "Synthesis Report" was issued by the IPCC in March 2023; it is summarized, with links to download the various component reports, at www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/.

The bottom line is, we’re no longer talking about just millimeters, or inches, of sea level rise. We now need to begin talking to the public – and, voters need to begin asking any and all candidates for Congress – about how many FEET of sea level rise we’re going to see, just in the next 2-3 decades.

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