UN IPCC Climate Report forced to recant rising sea level global warming claim

Netherlands Environmental Assessment is source of sea level error in UN Nobel Prize climate report:

• 2/15/10, EurActiv: "The 2007 report included the sentence: "The Netherlands is an example of a country highly susceptible to both sea level rise and river flooding because 55% of its territory is below sea level."

"A preliminary analysis suggests that the sentence discussed should end with: 'because 55% of the Netherlands is at risk of flooding'," the IPCC note said.

• The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, the original source of the incorrect data,

• said on 5 February that just 26% of the country is below sea level and 29% susceptible to river flooding.

The IPCC said the error was widespread. It quoted a report from the Dutch Ministry of Transport saying "about 60%" of the country is below sea level, and a European Commission study saying "about half"."...

• Sports Illustrated, March 2007 cover, using a star baseball player to sell
• the biggest scandal of our lifetime.

The Nobel Prize winning UN Climate Report on man made global warming is now shown erroneous in another CO2 disaster claim. The report seized world attention by saying sea levels were rapidly rising, a finding now declared unfounded. Who will inform the US EPA, Goldman Sachs, and MLB?

• Millions of dollars and finite man hours have been wasted on yet another fraud. Prince Charles has campaigned around the world preaching it.

It is being framed that a 2009 published report has been declared false and that it used the UN 2007 report as a basis. UK media reports the story the United States refuses to cover-again.

• Guardian: "Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise
• due to global warming
• after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.

The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience, one of the top journals in its field,

• confirmed the conclusions of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

It used data over the last 22,000 years to predict that sea level would rise by between 7cm and 82cm by the end of the century.

• At the time, Mark Siddall, from the Earth Sciences Department at the University of Bristol, said the study
• "strengthens the confidence with which one may interpret the IPCC results".
• The IPCC said that sea level would probably rise by 18cm-59cm by 2100, though stressed this was based on incomplete information about ice sheet melting

• and that the true rise could be higher.

• Many scientists criticised the IPCC approach as too conservative, and several papers since have suggested that sea level could rise more.

Martin Vermeer of the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany published a study in December that projected a rise of 0.75m to 1.9m by 2100. ...there were two separate technical mistakes in the paper, which were pointed out by other scientists after it was published.

• A formal retraction was required, rather than a correction, because the errors undermined the study's conclusion....

The paper – entitled "Constraints on future sea-level rise from past sea-level change" – used fossil coral data and temperature records derived from ice-core measurements to reconstruct how sea level has fluctuated with temperature since the peak of the last ice age,

• and to project how it would rise with

• warming over the next few decades."...

"Climate Scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels," UK Guardian, by David Adam, 2/21/10, via Tom Nelson and WUWT

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