Sea level rise?

Monterey Bay is probably the most-studied body of water in the world, with a long record of detailed observations. It's a great place to visit for many reasons. As long as they don't start retroactively "adjusting" their data, we can use their observations to see what is actually happening in the world.

I won't belabor the point, but the anti-science alarmism is pervasive throughout this administration and the media. Here's an example regarding "rising seas." From NOAA's current Monterey Bay page: "Currently, the state of California is using estimates of global sea level rise produced by Ramstorf 2007 and Cayan et al. 2008 for coastal adaptation planning purposes under Executive Order S‐13‐08. These projections suggest possible sea level rise of approximately 14 inches (36 cm) by 2050 and a high value of approximately 55 inches (140 cm) by 2100. However, recent evidence suggests these values may prove to be underestimates of the possible rise in global sea level."

http://montereybay.noaa.gov/resourcepro/resmanissues/climatechange.html

I'll show what is actually happening with sea level rise below, but first, here is some fun CAGW (catastrophic anthropogenic global warming--i.e., man-made disaster) from the NY Times from May 1985 (30 years ago): 

As global nightmares go, the greenhouse effect has managed not to keep policy makers awake nights devising plans of action. Scientists see an assortment of theoretical catastrophes just over the horizon, but the more dire their predictions, the more difficult it seems to find an appropriate response...Beginning in a decade or two, scientists expect the warming of the atmosphere to melt the polar icecaps, raising the level of the seas, flooding coastal areas, eroding the shores and sending salt water far into fresh-water estuaries. Storm patterns will change, drying out some areas, swamping others and generally throwing agriculture into turmoil. Federal climate experts have suggested that within a century the greenhouse effect could turn New York City into something with the climate of Daytona Beach, Fla.... So far, the greenhouse effect has not been clearly felt. In the generations since scientists first theorized that increased carbon dioxide would alter the earth's temperature balance by trapping heat in the atmosphere, no one has been able to measure a significant warming. Scientists have explanations for that, and they believe their temperature curves will soon soar off the scale. But for now the greenhouse effect remains part of a hypothetical, if not so distant, future.

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/12/weekinreview/ideas-trends-continued-a-dire-long-range-forecast.html

30 years later, the alarmism is as active as ever:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-gleick/flooding-google-googles-n_b_6804300.html

Here is what is actually happening with sea rise. Just as they do with arctic ice, the 1983 studies were projecting off an abnormal high, ignoring the cyclical nature of the climate.

Original data is at http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/1352.php