Posted on 11/28/2012 4:10:39 PM PST by NormsRevenge
According to NBC News, a newly released peer-reviewed study has concluded that sea levels between 1993 and 2011 rose by 3.2 millimeters per year. This number is nearly 60 percent more than the 2-millimeter annual projection made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change over the same time period. The disparity between the two numbers raises a point that the projections for the upcoming decades could also be too low and that sea level could rise much more than current estimates predict.
Here are some facts and details about the new study and what it could mean for upcoming climate reports:
* The new study entitled "Comparing climate projections to observations up to 2011" was a collaboration between three researchers: Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, Grant Foster of the consulting firm Tempo Analytics in Maine, and Anny Cazenave of the Laboratory of Geophysics and Spatial Oceanography Studies in France
* The study entitled has been published in the scientific journal Environmental Research Letters and was presented at U.N. climate change conference in Qatar, which will run until Dec. 7, noted Reuters.
* The IPCC's most recent report was issued in 2007 and projected that sea level could rise between 18 and 59 centimeters this century, but Rahmstorf, lead author of the new study, estimates that sea level rise would be between 50 centimeters to a meter.
* The Huffington Post reports that the new study had five more years of data and utilized satellite technology, which offers a broader picture than tide gauges. Additionally, it analyzed the relationship between sea level and temperature, which is a more sophisticated analysis method.
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LOL, you stole my thunder before the first post! What about all those islanders hanging out at 3.2mm above sea level?! We doomed!
The study
IOPscience
Environmental Research Letters
Volume 7
Number 4
Comparing climate projections to observations up to 2011
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/4/044035/article
OMG The beach will be gone!
No need for Beach vacation this coming summer!!!!!
There are 25.4 mm in one inch.
The un is run by criminal enemies of the USA and our government wants to give them control of this country...they should all be prosecuted.
They have never explained where all the water would come from to raise the sea levels this much.
Where's Noah when you need him?
By the nature of what our decrepit little beach house sits on (SAND)....I’d say the oceans rise and fall ALL the time..sheesh...these people are idiots.
Oh, they've got federally funded explanations.
Its gay issues, gender issues, racial issues, environmental issues, social and economic justice issues and NOTHING else.
Regarding the dissemination of information they attempt NOTHING else.
So THAT’S where all the rain went.
Maybe we should stop pumping money into global warming pseudoscience and work on efficient desalinization and irrigation techniques instead. Or hasn’t Al Gore made enough off this scam yet?
I am more amazed every day by the fact the US news media now exists for no other reason than to promote leftwing causes.
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It matches the bulk of educators in many of our “finest’ institutions of hugher indoctrination uhhh higher edukation, yaknow.
Coincidence or is global varming frying liberals brain cells?
I need to do a study,, got dough?
...the 47-percenters only see news clips in light of percentages.... remember this is a 60 percent variance....... Think about this in terms of distance between your finger and the spinning blade of a table saw...
It was warmer 9,000 years ago and the seas were about 20 to 30 feet higher than today. When the next ice goes into full effect (should start any time now) the seas will drop down to 460 to 500 feet, at the edge of the continental shelf, like it has done in the past.
There is no such thing as Y2K or Glowbull Warming! this is all a bunch of Beeee-Esssss Hooey It is as big a hoax as Glowbull Cooling was in the 1970s! I don’t know ANYONE who voted for Obama, and I don’t know anyone who believes in Glowbull Warming, and I am in Los Angeles county!
I thought Obama said something to the effect that the rise of the oceans would begin to slow under his leadership?
Another failed campaign promise!
People are getting taller.
“They have never explained where all the water would come from to raise the sea levels this much.”
And, why is it that the tide line on all the tourist beaches is exactly the same as it was in the 1920’s? (Look at the photos in the hotel bars.)
Maybe the earth is shrinking.
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