Jen, Here is a photograph of the King Tide yesterday, 12th January 2013, at Cleveland Point, Moreton Bay.
The King Tides here, where I used to live from 1946 until the early 1950s, used to cover the lawn on this land by about an inch (25mm) or so. Today's King Tide was 2.68 m at the Brisbane Bar (about as high as they get) and the barometer reading at high tide was 1012.5 hPa (normal).
There were no enhancing or diminishing factors influencing sea levels that I am aware of. The remaining decking on the ruined jetty (click on photograph to see more of jetty) is at the height of the top of the sea wall (lawn height) so it can be seen that the King Tide height is about 300 mm below the lawn height.
So, according to my observations, sea levels in Moreton Bay have gone down about 300 mm over the last 67 years.
Cheers, Spangled Drongo
This thread is now closed. Thanks everyone for sharing.
John Sayers; thanks for that; Jo and her team are looking at this claim and I have passed on your analysis to them.
January was hot, but the rest of the summer was not and there are big question marks around the January record; see:
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/01/australia-was-hot-and-is-hot-so-what-this-is-not-an-unusual-heat-wave/#comment-1223801
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/01/eight-reasons-the-australian-heatwave-is-not-climate-change/#more-26542
Hey Everyone, I shall close this thread in the next day or two. I've opened a new one. Cheers,
Hooray!
‘LABOR is considering dissolving the $218 million-a-year Climate Change Department as part of a cost-saving restructure that could see it merged with another government bureaucracy.
‘The department is part of a $1.6 billion-a-year climate change behemoth in place to administer the government’s carbon tax. It also includes the Clean Energy Regulator, the Climate Change Authority and the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator.’
Joe Kelly in the Oz
The warmists are running hard with this new paper ... its the old chicken and egg problem of what came first to end glaciation.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6123/1060
I downloaded the raw data for Dec, Jan and Feb (summer) from this site.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=tmean&area=aus&season=1202&ave_yr=T
If you add the anomalies 2012 - 13 is the highest at 3.34 Mainly due to an extremely January anomaly of 1.76.
but 1972 - 73 is the next highest at 2.63.
1997 - 98 is 2.39.
What a relief, the weather is back to normal.
'Over the last five years, only last winter saw the mercury rise above the 3.3C (38F) average - taken from 30 years of statistics from 1981.
'Met Office says figures are 'part of normal weather patterns'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2286041/So-global-warming-4-5-winters-COLDER-average-reveals-Met-Office.html#ixzz2MH3z2JSe
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook