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Study: Sea level rise accelerating more than once thought

By SETH BORENSTEIN

WASHINGTON — The world’s oceans are now rising far faster than they did in the past, a new study says.

The study found that for much of the 20th century — until about 1990 — sea level was about 30 percent less than earlier research had figured. But that’s not good news, scientists say, because about 25 years ago the seas started rising faster and the acceleration in 1990 turns out to be more dramatic than previously calculated.

The current sea level rise rate — which started in 1990 — is 2.5 times faster than it was from 1900 to 1990, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Scientists say that faster pace of sea level rise is from melting ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica and shrinking glaciers, triggered by man-made global warming.

“We’re seeing a significant acceleration in the past few decades,” said study lead author Carling Hay, a geophysical researcher at Harvard University. “It’s concerning for cities along the U.S. East Coast” where water levels are rising even faster than the world average.

“It’s definitely something that can’t be ignored,” Hay said.

Study: Sea level rise accelerating more than once thought

This is utter nonsense. Tide gauges along the East Coast (or anywhere else) don’t show an uptick 25 years ago. In fact, they show the fastest rise before 1950.

Tide gauges on the west coast don’t show any sea level rise over the past 25 years

What changed is that they added satellite data to the mix in 1992, which shows big bulges in the middle of the ocean in regions where the error is almost as large as the trend. A signal/noise ratio of 0.

Global mean sea level results

A recent study of tide gauges showed a slight decrease in sea level rise rates since 1970

The new reconstruction  suggests a linear trend of 1.9 ± 0.3 mm·yr?1 during the 20th century, with 1.8 ± 0.5 mm·yr?1 since 1970.

http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/504181/1/1-s2.0-S0921818113002750-main.pdf

The claims of an acceleration in sea level rise are mindless nonsense. It is equivalent to switching to an uncalibrated scale, and claiming that you lost weight as soon as you switched scales.

Experts say that the Arctic is ice free, but here in the Washington DC area we are frozen solid.

In 1974, climate experts at the National Academy of Sciences wanted to evacuate six million people, to save them from global cooling

NYTimes.com

It has been 15 years since leading British experts announced the demise of snow.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past

Monday 20 March 2000

According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.

“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

The effects of snow-free winter in Britain are already becoming apparent.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

We are told by progressives that climate scientists are gods, and that you may not question their words – so please do not attempt to interpret the images below. They are above your pay grade.

Europe-wide Next 3 Days Accumulated Snow

Senator Sanders says that scientists are “virtually unanimous” that humans are already causing devastating climate change.

Bernie Sanders Wrecks Republican Plans By Offering Climate Change Amendment To Keystone XL

Republicans need to demand that he produce evidence to back his wildly fraudulent claims up. Not one single thing he said has any basis in fact, or any documentation to back it up.

Sanders goal is to give Obama political cover for a veto. Hopefully the Republican leadership will not let him get away with this fraud. There has never been any survey which has asked scientists anything remotely close to Sanders’ claims.

Only 52% of American Meteorological Society members believe that humans are primarily responsible for global warming, much less believe that it is a catastrophe.

Being a progressive means linking any two pieces of unrelated information together to justify your need to control other people. Check out this piece of progressive logic.

Last week I wrote this :

If the Republican leadership had any brains, they would seize the initiative about shutting down Obama’s dictatorship.

1. Make clear they will not put up with it
2. Make clear that his executive actions are illegal
3. Make clear weeks in advance that they will fully fund DHS, but will not fund Obama’s illegal immigration action
4. Make clear that it is Obama refusing to sign the DHS funding bill, and thus shutting down DHS

If They Only Had A Brain | Real Science

And today :

Republican lawmakers leaving a closed-door strategy meeting on Tuesday said the House would seek to pass amendments to the core funding bill to deny money to implement Obama’s November executive order lifting the threat of deportation to millions of undocumented immigrants. Republicans claim the order is illegal.

“Our goal here is to fund the Department of Homeland Security. And our second goal is to stop the president’s executive overreach,” Boehner told reporters.

Boehner’s Plan to Block Obama’s Immigration Moves

So far this month, the US is having its 10th coldest January on record, and the coldest since 1982