{"id":1802,"date":"2026-09-02T08:08:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:08:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:08:48","slug":"debunking-the-crisis-of-sea-level-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"Debunking the \u2018Crisis\u2019 of Sea Level Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whenever a natural disaster occurs anywhere in the world that can be connected in some way with the alleged climate crisis, out come the professionals to make that connection.<\/p>\n

Read more The Manufacture of the Left\u2019s \u2018White Adjacent\u2019 Tactic<\/a><\/p>\n

From the federally funded NPR, \u201cA melting glacier contributed to the deadly Nepal floods. We can expect more like this.\u201d From CBC, \u201cScientists fear Nepal\u2019s disaster is just a glimpse of the carnage climate change could cause.\u201d And from BBC, \u201cNepal calls for \u2018global effort\u2019 to address climate change after devastating flash floods.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is just a taste of the media consensus, backed by scientists whose careers and credibility are built on perpetuating the panic. But what exactly would constitute a \u201cglobal effort\u201d to address climate change? And here again, business professionals and politicians step in, and the results are laughable. Europe is deindustrialized and risks terminal economic decline in pursuit of \u201cnet zero,\u201d while India, China, and every other emerging nation are building, exploiting every form of energy they can possibly get their hands on. Fossil fuel consumption worldwide has risen, in absolute terms, by 36 percent for oil, 67 percent for natural gas, and 79 percent for coal.<\/p>\n

The overall role of fossil fuels has not changed. Over the past 25 years, total energy production worldwide has increased by 58 percent, and the share contributed by fossil fuels is virtually unchanged. It was 87 percent in 2000, and it was 86 percent in 2025. The use of fossil fuels is not going to decrease significantly for several decades to come.<\/p>\n

The only way to adapt to whatever long-term changes in weather may throw at humanity is to develop every source of energy we can as fast as we can, because more energy will create more prosperity, and more prosperity in turn will give us the means to adapt. Not only can prosperous nations build more effective flood control infrastructure and other adaptations to climate and weather events. They can also apply their wealth to eliminating other, equally if not more urgent environmental challenges.<\/p>\n

One area of climate concern that the disaster in Nepal has highlighted is sea level rise caused by melting ice. But the numbers don\u2019t support panic, and there is great uncertainty in the estimates. Here are the reported sources of sea level rise from melting ice over the past quarter century (the best datasets don\u2019t offer exactly 25 years of compilations).<\/p>\n