"“It’s not politics. That’s what the data say,” said the study’s author, who examined 70 tide gauges around the country."
"The rate of sea-level rise along U.S. coastlines has more than doubled over the past 125 years, according to a new analysis that examined data from scores of tide gauges from around the country.
The findings stand in contrast to a wide-ranging, widely criticized assessment of climate science that the Trump administration released this summer.
Chris Piecuch, a sea-level scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said he undertook his analysis in response to that Energy Department report, which he and others argue uses cherry-picked data to conclude that “U.S. tide gauge measurements reveal no obvious acceleration beyond the historical average rate of sea level rise.”"
Brady Dennis reports for the Washington Post December 17, 2025.
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