European sea-level satellite releases first data
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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel 6B satellite, launched a month ago, has now released its first sea-level data.
Following its launch on 17 November 2025, the first data from Sentinel-6B was captured on 26 November by the satellite’s Poseidon-4 altimeter. The image [to the right] is a combination of altimeter data from both the Sentinel-6 sea-level tracking satellites: Sentinel-6B and its twin, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, which was launched in 2020. The image shows the Gulf Stream current in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the eastern coasts of the US and Canada.
The Gulf Stream is a hugely important area of the North Atlantic Ocean, not only for the role it plays in global weather patterns and climate, but also because it’s a busy shipping route as well as a key ecosystem for marine species and therefore an important fishing zone.
What makes this particular government press release unusual is that though it is about a climate-related satellite, it makes no mention of global warming and how the sea level rise that has been recorded by the string of similar orbital satellites going back to 1993 is going to eventually drown us all. Maybe that’s because that total rise measured since 1993 equals only about 4 inches. That’s 4 inches of rise detected in more than three decades. At that rate, a little over an inch per decade, it will take centuries to drown anyone, but only those who refuse to walk a few feet to higher ground.
It could be the scientists and government PR hacks that are involved in writing this release also realized that the gig is up, and everyone now knows it, and it would only embarrass them further to push the global-warming hoax again.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel 6B satellite, launched a month ago, has now released its first sea-level data.
Following its launch on 17 November 2025, the first data from Sentinel-6B was captured on 26 November by the satellite’s Poseidon-4 altimeter. The image [to the right] is a combination of altimeter data from both the Sentinel-6 sea-level tracking satellites: Sentinel-6B and its twin, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, which was launched in 2020. The image shows the Gulf Stream current in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the eastern coasts of the US and Canada.
The Gulf Stream is a hugely important area of the North Atlantic Ocean, not only for the role it plays in global weather patterns and climate, but also because it’s a busy shipping route as well as a key ecosystem for marine species and therefore an important fishing zone.
What makes this particular government press release unusual is that though it is about a climate-related satellite, it makes no mention of global warming and how the sea level rise that has been recorded by the string of similar orbital satellites going back to 1993 is going to eventually drown us all. Maybe that’s because that total rise measured since 1993 equals only about 4 inches. That’s 4 inches of rise detected in more than three decades. At that rate, a little over an inch per decade, it will take centuries to drown anyone, but only those who refuse to walk a few feet to higher ground.
It could be the scientists and government PR hacks that are involved in writing this release also realized that the gig is up, and everyone now knows it, and it would only embarrass them further to push the global-warming hoax again.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Timing is everything in life.
I was just engaged in an intense conversation with “progressive” who obediently preaches the “Science has come to a consensus about Global Warming”.
I pointed out that I have never changed my position on this issue, but Bill Gates and one of the founders of Green Peace and many more have had their come to Jesus’s moment regarding the subject.
I prepared this further response if I ever receive a continuation on the subject and will keep it unsent for the moment.
“Data I.E. Objective Science V Consensus: There is a difference.
“With sea-level rise high on the global agenda, numerous organizations have worked to make Copernicus Sentinel-6 the gold-standard reference mission for extending the record of sea-surface height measurements – delivering data with greater precision than ever before.”
RZ: “What makes this particular government press release unusual is that though it is about a climate-related satellite, it makes no mention of global warming and how the sea level rise that has been recorded by the string of similar orbital satellites going back to 1993 is going to eventually drown us all. Maybe that’s because that total rise measured since 1993 equals only about 4 inches. That’s 4 inches of rise detected in more than three decades. At that rate, a little over an inch per decade, it will take centuries to drown anyone, but only those who refuse to walk a few feet to higher ground.”
4″ of sea rise over 30 years (which is negligible and of little concern) and other recorded data points are probably why the likes of Bill Gates and others have had to abandon their religious Global Warming quest.”
We wait.
I don’t believe even that much.
At least not yet from the few months of data from the second satellite. I will worry more about it after a year of data.
I also want to know what they are checking their old data against.
There have been enough clearly bogus claims to get the attention of any with an IQ above room temperature. One that I remember was claims of sea level rise at several seaports within a few hundred miles on the gulf coast. I can’t remember the levels quoted except that they were all different by several inches. A bit hard to miss that something was off.
One of the problems with extreme claims is that thinking people avoid association with those that are off the rails. Starship will hit $10.00 a kilo(several) and Starship has already failed/can’t work (Oler&co) for a couple of the extremes to avoid.
Robert wrote, clearly not understanding the urgency of the climate emergency: “That’s 4 inches of rise detected in more than three decades. At that rate, a little over an inch per decade, it will take centuries to drown anyone, but only those who refuse to walk a few feet to higher ground.”
The problem is not the drowning (although drowning is what they said about the fate of London’s dog population, a quarter century ago), but the ports for oceanic transportation. When the seas rise enough, the ports and their port cranes (the cranes that load and unload containers from ships) will be flooded and unusable. These cranes may be anywhere from ten feet to twenty or thirty feet above the current sea level and will be inundated soon, making the rising seas of immediate urgency. At the rate of four inches per three decades (1- ⅓” per decade), ten feet would be under water in only (let’s see, that is a foot every nine decades, so ninety decades for a ten foot increase) ninety decades, almost around the corner, possibly within our lifetimes (if medical care advances fast enough)! Holy smokes, we need to do something about CO2 emissions right away — except for China’s emissions, which turn out to not add to global warming, climate change, or the coming global Ice Age, so they can continue building coal-fired power plants in order to run their AI software.
Think of it: some of our ports could become useless in less than a millennium. Instead of celebrating, like we did on 1 January 2000, the next millennial celebration could be fraught with the rebuilding of some of our oceangoing transportation system.
Of course, when the next Ice Age comes — due any millennium, now — the seas will recede, forming a two-mile-thick ice cap that will extend as far south as Minneapolis (which may no longer be the loss I thought it was when I lived in a suburb). With that, we will once again have to rebuild our oceanic ports to the lower levels where the displaced water will end and the rivers will meet the new beaches. Climate Change is the scourge of mankind (and dogs and polar bears).
Oh, the humanity!
Global warming on the one hand, the coming ice age on the other hand, and people, dogs, and polar bears trapped in the middle.
We must prepare now! But first, we have to determine which direction it will all go, warming or cooling, otherwise we will prepare all wrong.
That’s enough sarcasm for this week.