The mainstream media (MSM) reporting on global warming and climate change issues has been an institutional disgrace, as every single hysterical IPCC prediction is gleefully reported and embellished by the press, but then later proven to be flagrantly wrong .....this includes the recent reporting that "the" disastrous global sea rise will flood coastlines - now a new study by NOAA instead confirms what CAGW skeptics have been reporting all along.....that the actual sea level rise is slowly decelerating to zero
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Read here. Per the most recent NOAA study on rising sea levels, the current sea rise trend amounts to an insignificant 5 to 6 inches by the end of the century. The purple line on the chart on the right depicts that sea rise outcome in contrast to a variety of the IPCC's green-sharia scientist predictions (red lines). Note: This updated chart was originally produced in April 2012.
Of course, the mainstream press doesn't see fit to report actual studies and empirical evidence that easily refutes the climate change P.R. (aka disaster-porn) that the IPCC distributes. Instead, the media is determined to mislead the public by using images, such as the one on the left, to portray ludicrous predictions as "climate reality."
"According to the latest NOAA sea level budget, global sea levels rose at only 1.1 - 1.3 mm/year from 2005-2012, which is less than half of the rate claimed by the IPCC [3.1 mm/yr] and is equivalent to less than 5 inches per century...The report compares sea-level rise calculated from two different methods: 1) satellite altimetry and 2) ARGO measurements of the steric [thermal expansion] component + GRACE measurements of ocean mass. The rate of sea level rise using the 2nd method [ARGO + GRACE] shows a sea level rise of only 0.2 {ARGO] + 0.1 [GRACE] = 0.3 mm/yr. Only by adding on a relatively large and highly questionable GIA adjustment [based on a model] of 0.9 mm/yr to the GRACE data do the two estimates come close to agreement. Following this questionable GIA adjustment, the ARGO + GRACE estimate is 1.1± 0.8 mm/yr as compared to the satellite altimetry estimate of 1.3 ± 0.9 mm."
Conclusions:
1. The IPCC has purposefully misinformed the world about global warming and potential climate change, focusing on worst case scenarios that are extremely unlikely
2. The mainstream press has exaggerated the IPCC's worst case scenarios with climate disaster-porn reporting, such as NYC being flooded to ludicrous depths by 2100 AD
3. MSM outlets, such as CBS, NBC, the Washington Post, CNN, TIME and the NY Times cannot be trusted with providing accurate or objective reporting on climate/environment issues - it's as simple as that.