Links tagged “sea level”

Study 'reconstructs sea level rise in the Indian Ocean over the last 60 years and finds sea levels rising at only '1.5 mm/yr [6 inches per century], a value lesser (although not significantly different) than global mean sea level rise of 1.8 mm/yr [7 inches per century].'

8. 'If the polar ice caps completely melted' - 'London? A memory. Venice? Reclaimed by the Adriatic Sea. Thousands of years from now, in this catastrophic scenario, the Netherlands will have long since surrendered to the sea, and most of Denmark will be gone too...The entire Atlantic seaboard would vanish, along with Florida and the Gulf Coast. In California, San Francisco's hills would become a cluster of islands and the Central Valley a giant bay.'

(National Geographic © September 2013 National Geographic Society / Full source info here)

Dr. Judith Curry, Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of  Technology

UN IPCC: 'The IPCC does not have a convincing or confident explanation for the current hiatus in warming' 

Sea Level: 'The data does not seem to support the IPCC’s conclusion of a substantial contribution from anthropogenic forcings to the global mean sea level rise since the 1970s.'

Ice: 'The increase in Antarctic sea ice is not understood and is not simulated correctly by climate models. Further, Arctic surface temperature anomalies in the 1930’s were as large as the recent temperature anomalies.'

Conclusion: 'The science of climate change is not settled, and evidence reported by the IPCC AR5 weakens the case for human factors dominating climate change in the 20th and early 21st centuries'

'What Will Happen? 'When The North Pole Melts, Oceans Will Rise 150 Feet' - 'Scientists' Predictions' - September 16, 1933

'Over the last few weeks, an island has formed at the volcanic site. People are calling the new land mass Niijima. The island has an area of about 14 acres and it continues to grow'

'Kerry pledged $17 million to a program that will help the region's rice producers, shrimp and crab farmers and fisherman adapt to potential changes caused by higher sea levels that bring salt water into the delicate ecosystem.'

Lennart Bengtsson: 'We now have satellite measurements for 20 years which indicate a steady rise of about 3 mm per year, and during that time no acceleration, See: http://sealevel.colorado.edu/... 20 years is certainly enough. On Monday I was involved in a public panel discussion with Pachauri who insisted that this is an acceleration. I found that I think I know more about this than Mr. Pachauri. The reference above appears to me quite compelling.'

Retired German meteorologist Klaus-Eckart Puls has written an analysis at the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) website here. He concludes: 'Old and new measurement data show that sea level rise has decelerated.”

'The ice caps have not melted, the oceans are not overheating, sea levels are just fluctuating, the polar bears are thriving and the Sahara is regaining vegetation. It is foxes and cats that are destroying native wildlife, not drilling for gas. And real human pollution of the oceans, rivers and atmosphere gets little attention while green dreamers in parliament are focused on maintaining the carbon tax.'