NOAA tide gauges averaged over all of the islands they measure, show less than five inches per century sea level rise. All are below the claimed altimetry rise rates.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_states.shtml?region=wm
Let’s hold an underwater cabinet meeting to extract money from stupid westerners.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=1619000
I averaged the sea level change rates for all NOAA global tide gauges with data in the current century, and the average rate is +0.47 mm/year – which is 1.85 inches per century. Far below the IPCC forecasts.
Spreadsheet is here.
NSIDC shows that Northern Hemisphere ice extent is about 1,000,000 km^2 below the 1979-2000 mean. Is this an Arctic death spiral?
Ice extent was at a century peak around 1980, which skews the median upwards. You can also see from the modified NSIDC map below that most of the missing ice (red) is near Quebec and Japan – not exactly the Arctic.
The animation above shows March 17 US Navy PIPS 2 ice, greater than 2.5 metres thick – since 2008. Looks like a recovery to me.
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/pips2/archive/index.html?filetype=Thickness
STORY OF THE VOYAGE,
OBSERVATIONS AT THE POLE. NOME, May 16.
Lieutenant Hjalmar Larsen, the Nor-wegian second pilot of the Norge, on being interviewed, said thin ice and open water were found at the North Pole
h/t to Ivan
Seadragon (SSN-584), foreground, and her sister Skate (SSN-578) during a rendezvous at the North Pole in August 1962. Note the men on the ice beyond the submarines.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08578.htm
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He doesn’t think we should talk about what happened in Japan? Maybe he is a meltdown denier.
