Real Climate Science

SIGNIFIGANT RISE IN SEA LEVEL NOW SEEMS CERTAIN
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Published: February 18, 1986

MANY scientists are so sure that the sea level will rise visibly in the coming decades that they are advising planners to adopt new strategies now. A predicted rise in sea level of one foot within the next 30 to 40 years will drive much of the Atlantic and Gulf shoreline inward by a hundred feet and some of it by more than a thousand feet, according to marine geologists. The environmental and economic consequences will be felt much farther inland.

SIGNIFIGANT RISE IN SEA LEVEL NOW SEEMS CERTAIN – NYTimes.com

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arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.south.anom.1979-2008

The 13-point swing over the past two months follows a political uproar over Obamacare, which included the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov and controversy over the possiblity of insurance policy cancelations due primarily to the new health law.

CNN Poll: GOP has edge in early midterm indicator – CNN Political Ticker – CNN.com Blogs

CNN calls insurance cancellations a controversy over possible insurance cancellations, and manages two misspell too wurds in the same sentence.

In 1997, GISS showed the 1880-1996 Southern Hemisphere land temperature trend at .43ºC/century. Now it is 0.65ºC/century. That is an increase of 52% in the same data set since 1997.

Archived 1997 version : http://www.giss.nasa.gov/Data/GISTEMP/ZonAnn.Ts.txt

2013 version : http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/ZonAnn.Ts.txt

Shindell and Schmidt 2004

While most of the Earth warmed rapidly during recent decades, surface temperatures decreased significantly over most of Antarctica.

Pubs.GISS: Abstract of Shindell and Schmidt 2004

Republicans in Congress got the testimony they wanted to keep playing climate Russian roulette | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | theguardian.com

In 1961, the unanimous consensus agreed that Earth was cooling – but GISS shows a strong warming trend from 1946 to 1961.

data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A2.txt

SCIENTISTS AGREE WORLD IS COLDER — NYTimes.com

* Mosher says that this is all first rate science.

The largest measured New Year’s Day global sea ice area was 17.9 million km² in 1989. January 1 is on pace to surpass that.

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008

Just got this E-mail from the Pinocchio-in-Chief

These are the actual numbers from US Treasury Dept.

Current Issue: Monthly Treasury Statement: Publications & Guidance: Financial Management Service