No acceleration of global sea level over the past 100 years” (Sorry Algore-Sea levels not rising)

WUWT ^ | 3/28/2011 | Anthony Watts

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[UCANSEE2]

“It is essential that investigations continue to address why this worldwide-temperature increase has not produced acceleration of global sea level over the past 100 years, and indeed why global sea level has possibly decelerated for at least the last 80 years.”

Warmer air can hold more moisture ‘in suspension’.

[blackdog]

Sort of on topic question.......

What percentage of world water is present in vapor form within the atmosphere in ratio to the amount condensed or precipitated out and is in bodies of water or in the ground sysyem?

Al Gore will argue that it's just a matter of time until the skies open up, which Australia has been the first to experience as we've witnessed. It's right there in front of your eyes. The sea levels are rising, but much higher than the sea.

I'm not of that theory, but that will be their answer.

[blackdog]

You beat me by two minutes. If I hadn't been so wordy and used spellcheck I'd have beat you.

Like minds........

[Dilbert San Diego]

But Obama announced that we were going to stop the rising of the seas, and allow the planet to heal. What ever happened with that????

[I still care]

Gore already knew this.

That’s why he bought his multimillion dollar condo by the sea last year.

[blackdog]

The GAO is currently processing the bids for Band-Aids large enough for the wounds to heal.

[p. henry]

Or perhaps the stated premise is untrue or at least exagerated. Perhaps the “worldwide temperature increase . . . over the last 100 years” is not as significant as we have been led to believe.

[Dr. Sheldon Cooper]

This is noteworthy.

Obama's first unbroken promise.

[sima_yi]

Acceleration in sea level: Global Warming
No acceleration in sea level: Global Warming
Deceleration in sea level: Global Warming

[NormsRevenge]

but .. but ..

I saw it in a dream.. a vision.. Tsunami!

[blackdog]

Think of all the new wetlands and tidal marshes to manage by the feds!? Water in a physical large body of mass evaporates very slowly in contrast to marshes, wetlands, and tidal pools. The increase in sea levels will recover all those lost ecosystems that overdevelopment took out of the cycle. Desertification will reverse due to the increased atmospheric water supply, giving new life to water starved regions of the globe.

Of course I have no scientificly valid proof of this claim, but it's just as or more valid than anything the AGW crowd passes off as fact.

[blackdog]

Same people who tell me that.............

Flat enrollment means we need a tax increase for the schools

Increased enrollment means we need a tax increase to fund the schools.

Declining enrollment means we face a tax increase to fund the schools due to decreased state and federal funds based on number of students.

[Wuli]

ping

[sima_yi]

Exactly right.

Declining student achievement: Need more money!
Level student achievement: Need more money!
Increased student achievement: See, it's working! Need more money!

[KarlInOhio]

What percentage of world water is present in vapor form within the atmosphere in ratio to the amount condensed or precipitated out and is in bodies of water or in the ground sysyem?

Wikipedia (yes, I know the warnings) lists water as averaging 0.4% of the air and the total mass of the atmosphere as 5.1480×10^18 kg. Spread evenly over the entire surface of the earth that would be about 1.5 inches of water.

Copy this into google to see my calculation: 5.1480×10^18 kg * 0.4% * 1 (liter/kg) / (4 * pi * (4000 miles)^2) in inches

Another wiki page lists the mass of the oceans as 1.4×10^21 kg, so the atmospheric water is 0.0015% of the oceans' mass. That's somewhat in error because I didn't take into account ocean water's salt content.

(After doing that calculation I realized that wiki listed the atmospheric content by volume rather than by mass. Since water has a molecular weight of 18 compared to 28 and 32 for nitrogen and oxygen, I overstated the weight and final depth by about one third).

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx for the ping Army Air Corps !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[popdonnelly]

Al Gore is a huckster.

[vrwc1]

Agreed. If I recall correctly, over 1/2 of the supposed increase is due to "adjustments" in the data (i.e. making the older data look cooler, and more recent data look warmer). Then there are the problems of bad station siting (near asphalt, next to A/C units, etc.) and urban heat islands, which are pretty much ignored.

My take is that the data has been manipulated, and we have been lied to. The whole AGW scare is one giant fraud whereby insiders make money, and everyone else in the world suffers.