The American polar expert Robert Correll, among the key contributors to the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report issued in February, described the acceleration as “massive”.
Estimates of the likely rise in sea levels this century vary, and the IPCC published a conservative range of between 20cm-60cm. But those estimates are now heavily disputed, with many scientists insisting that new data collected since the IPCC report suggested a rise closer to two metres. Professor Correll said there was now a “consensus” that a significant acceleration in the loss of ice mass has occurred since the last report.
Meanwhile, reality says the consensus are morons.
Massive Greenland meltdown? Not so fast, say scientists
January 12, 2009
a team led by Faezeh Nick of Durham University in Britain found that neither of these scenarios matched the data.
“They simply don’t fit what we have observed,” said colleague and co-author Andreas Vieli in an interview.
How many is in a “many scientists“? What are their names? Why are they hiding behind Robert Correll’s skirts? If their warnings mean so much they should be proud, out front world savers, not shy, retiring, anonymous, hiding behind the hedges.
Since they are hiding behind the hedges, where is the description of the hedge?
The article about Robert Correll’s apocalyptic predictions is from 2007.
After failing to make big bucks on the prediction circuit, he concentrated his research on raindeer farts and in 2010 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine by the Norges veterinærhøgskole (Norwegian School of Veterinarian Science).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Corell
Thanks Dirk, I was wondering about the date of his predictions.
Got to check out Carrell, Callaghan et al
I believe I am going to have to have a new email site just for Real Science—does Steve G. sleep?
As little as possible.
That would be something called weasel words. Examples: Some scientists, experts, leading scientists, the world’s scientists, studies show, studies say, study finds, etc. When it comes down to it, those “many scientists” are often just one and those “studies” are often just a few.
It’s the same thing as those famous ‘They’ guys, except they have fancy titles and degrees and such. “Well, you know…that’s what they say.”
Germany Denmark
1849 – 2010 + 1,6 mm/year
but
1990 – 2010 – 1,45 mm/year
so last 20 years no Sea Level rise at all.
http://www.klimaatfraude.info/zeespiegelstijging-bij-duitsland-ook-naar-beneden-geduikeld_195318.html
In 2008 Robert Correll still tried to break the prediction market.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6u5WCsY5cg&feature=player_detailpage#t=238s
Note that he only got 300 views in 4 years.
Seeing that other, experiment-based science videos like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jlv8F9cerA&feature=related
with 220 million views, proved to be more popular, he bought a cigarette lighter and retreated into the polar wilderness to start working with raindeer farts.
No videos of his experiments have emerged so far.
Our fight is hopeless. They want to use God.
‘Greenpeace head Kumi Naidoo, remains optimistic. In an interview, he explains his new vision for a sustainable world — and how the pope can help.’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/greenpeace-head-naidoo-and-the-new-strategy-against-climate-change-a-832709.html
Naidoo: We could do this with the help of religion. Ideally, the Pope should ask the people: Do you really think God would bury oil and coal for extraction as the only option to produce energy?
Ask yourself this: Are the Greens the useful idiots of the catholic church or is the catholic church the useful idiot of the Greens?
Which organisation is the biggest land owner of the planet? 😉
Quotes, A War Against Humanity:
“The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [humans] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.” –Thomas Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution
“The only real good technology is no technology at all. ” -John Shuttleworth, Mother Earth News
“An ecocatastrophe is taking place on earth…..discipline, prohibition, enforcement and oppression are the only solution. [And those most responsible should] be sent to the mountains for re-education in eco-gulags… The sole glimmer of hope lies in a centralised government and the tireless control of citizens.” — Pentti Linkila, Finnish Ecologist
“It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.” — George Monbiot, British Ecoloon
I’m sure you meant Noel Brown, former scientific adviser to Planktos’ “Voyage of Recovery” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18acL_kKTJs.
That was the company which planned to salt the ocean with iron ore back in 2007, to fertilize phytoplankton which would then suck up x amount of co2, which Planktos would reimburse in carbon credits for their trouble.
15 February 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.604
Planktos dead in the water
Company aiming for ocean fertilization says funds have run dry.
The California-based company Planktos has indefinitely postponed its ocean-fertilization project, which the firm claimed would help counter the rise in greenhouse gases.
The bad news for the company, which was unable to raise required funds, is welcome news for many in the scientific community who had been calling… .
A few things to ponder –
we’re about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way there according to climate models for the effects of a doubling of CO2.
The AGW theory states that the warming from the heat trapping properties of CO2 take effect in the atmosphere immediately. (Obviously ocean temperatures will take much longer to equalize.)
So given the above, why isn’t there the acceleration we were promised? Is there any explanation for why, given the lengthy time period already (1950-2012), we’re still not seeing it?
Envisat sea level rise tripled last month, once it was determined that the measured data wasn’t suitable for funding.