I keep reading this over and over, everywhere. Yet sea level rise at the Dutch coast has not accelerated and is at a steady 1.5-2mm/yr for over a century.
https://www.klimaatfeiten.nl/gevolgen/zeespiegel/nederland-z...
Also sea level does not rise equally all around the globe: "Sea level rise at specific locations may be more or less than the global average due to local factors such as land subsidence from natural processes and withdrawal of groundwater and fossil fuels, changes in regional ocean currents, and whether the land is still rebounding from the compressive weight of Ice Age glaciers." [1]
Looking at a single metric from a single place is quite shallow reasoning. Ask a Canadian if they are already seeing strong negative effects from warming and you will get the exact opposite reaction from you after what happened there over the last year.
Your link only mentions 'and the rate has increased in recent decades' but then only talks about sea level rise.
Nobody is disputing sea level is rising : we have exited an ice age.
And before you accuse me of shallow reasoning : why don't you come up with the graphs?
Because that's irrelevant to my point? That sea level is rising or not, and specifically in The Netherlands at that, cannot reasonably be used as a proxy to decide whether or not we are globally starting to feel the consequence of global warming.
But here is a graph anyway: https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-chan...
And here is another one: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
And here is a quote: "The rate of sea level rise has accelerated considerably relative to the pre-industrial era. Over the twentieth century, global sea level increased at an average rate of about 2 mm yr–1, which is substantially larger than the rate of the previous three millennia. Furthermore, evidence now exists for additional acceleration during the twentieth century" [2]
But I see you are pulling your climate facts from a website that states "The warming is beneficial for people and nature" and "Large-scale use of 'renewable' energy is bad for nature and the environment", so I don't really know why I am bothering arguing with you.
[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49588416_Global_Sea...
In previous comments, I linked directly to the measuring stations feeds ( if only I could search my HN comments ).
The graph is the same, what does it matter which site it is hosted on?
How come the rise in the late 1800's and early 1900's is already 'substantially larger' ( how much? ) than the millenia before ( if true? ). The car was hardly invented.
And your graphs : if I squint really hard, I might see some acceleration in the last 10-15 years. But it could as well be statistical insignificant in the time frames we are talking about.
I apologise for my tone then. I have too much faith in Google, and thought that this was the kind of site you would have to explicitly look for.
> And your graphs : if I squint really hard, I might see some acceleration in the last 10-15 years. But it could as well be statistical insignificant in the time frames we are talking about.
I have plotted what would roughly be a constant yearly increase of the sea level from both graphs here so it can be seen more clearly: https://imgur.com/a/Lts6MEU
The acceleration can very clearly be seen starting from around the 90s, especially in the second graph since this one goes to 2020s instead of 2010 in the first.
I have no idea why specifically the sea level as measured in The Netherland would not show that acceleration, it might be due to one of the reason highlighted in my first post, but sadly it's not something that holds globally.
The Netherlands had more physical mitigations so was spared the deaths but it was still a disaster
I could go on...
Most of Europe has extremely poor cooling of buildings even without AC. Stop making buildings black and add outdoor blinds instead of living in a greenhouse (the kind of stuff that is super common in Mediterranean countries), that will already help a lot. Trying to solve the problem with more electricity is making it worse, not better.