Ocean rising may continue even after warming stops

[rdean]

Melting ice sheets contributed much more to rising sea levels than thermal expansion of warming ocean waters during the Last Interglacial Period, a UA-led team of researchers has found. The results further suggest that ocean levels continue to rise long after warming of the atmosphere levels off.

"Even though the oceans are absorbing a good deal of the total global warming, the atmosphere is warming faster than the oceans," McKay adds. "Moreover, ocean warming is lagging behind the warming of the atmosphere. The melting of large polar ice sheets lags even farther behind."

The authors cautioned that past evidence is not a prediction of the future, mostly because global temperatures during the Last Interglacial were driven by changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun.

However, current global warming is driven by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.

The Last Interglacial is the most recent time when sea levels were much higher and it's a time for which we have lots of data," McKay adds.

"The message is that the last time glaciers and ice sheets melted, sea levels rose by more than eight meters. Much of the world's population lives relatively close to sea level. This is going to have huge impacts, especially on poor countries," he adds.

Ocean rising may continue even after warming stops | R&D Mag

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We have lots of data. Well, the right has plenty of competing data. Like Noah's Ark and the Bible. 6% of scienctists tell us so.

 

[rdean]

Swim?

 

[uscitizen]

Everyone should drink more water.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

“..this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow..." Barack Hussein Obama

 

[Zander]

if we could find a way to capture the gas that comes out of rdean- I am confident it would solve globull warming.

 

[waltky]

Don't tell nobody but...

... Uncle Ferd drawin' up plans...

... to put detachable pontoons onna side of the trailer...

... so' when the waters go back down...

... we can land onna side of Mt. Ararat...

... like Noah did.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Melting ice sheets contributed much more to rising sea levels than thermal expansion of warming ocean waters during the Last Interglacial Period, a UA-led team of researchers has found. The results further suggest that ocean levels continue to rise long after warming of the atmosphere levels off.

"Even though the oceans are absorbing a good deal of the total global warming, the atmosphere is warming faster than the oceans," McKay adds. "Moreover, ocean warming is lagging behind the warming of the atmosphere. The melting of large polar ice sheets lags even farther behind."

The authors cautioned that past evidence is not a prediction of the future, mostly because global temperatures during the Last Interglacial were driven by changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun.

However, current global warming is driven by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.

The Last Interglacial is the most recent time when sea levels were much higher and it's a time for which we have lots of data," McKay adds.

"The message is that the last time glaciers and ice sheets melted, sea levels rose by more than eight meters. Much of the world's population lives relatively close to sea level. This is going to have huge impacts, especially on poor countries," he adds.

Ocean rising may continue even after warming stops | R&D Mag

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We have lots of data. Well, the right has plenty of competing data. Like Noah's Ark and the Bible. 6% of scienctists tell us so.

The ocean rise is "Lagging" the ice melt.












"Oh snap! We're supposed to be rising!" -- Atlantic Ocean

"Trouble me not, I'm visit a Dunkin Donuts" -- Indian Ocean

"Chill out! It's too early to rise" -- Pacific Ocean

Maybe the Neanderthal will help the oceans rise?

Maybe we can send up a Space Shuttle flight to go check...oh, fuck, that's right! Obama killed the Shuttle Program!

 

[daveman]

Yadda yadda yadda, we're all gonna die, blah blah blah.

 

[rdean]

Melting ice sheets contributed much more to rising sea levels than thermal expansion of warming ocean waters during the Last Interglacial Period, a UA-led team of researchers has found. The results further suggest that ocean levels continue to rise long after warming of the atmosphere levels off.

"Even though the oceans are absorbing a good deal of the total global warming, the atmosphere is warming faster than the oceans," McKay adds. "Moreover, ocean warming is lagging behind the warming of the atmosphere. The melting of large polar ice sheets lags even farther behind."

The authors cautioned that past evidence is not a prediction of the future, mostly because global temperatures during the Last Interglacial were driven by changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun.

However, current global warming is driven by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.

The Last Interglacial is the most recent time when sea levels were much higher and it's a time for which we have lots of data," McKay adds.

"The message is that the last time glaciers and ice sheets melted, sea levels rose by more than eight meters. Much of the world's population lives relatively close to sea level. This is going to have huge impacts, especially on poor countries," he adds.

Ocean rising may continue even after warming stops | R&D Mag

-----------------------

We have lots of data. Well, the right has plenty of competing data. Like Noah's Ark and the Bible. 6% of scienctists tell us so.

The ocean rise is "Lagging" the ice melt.











"Oh snap! We're supposed to be rising!" -- Atlantic Ocean

"Trouble me not, I'm visit a Dunkin Donuts" -- Indian Ocean

"Chill out! It's too early to rise" -- Pacific Ocean

Maybe the Neanderthal will help the oceans rise?

Maybe we can send up a Space Shuttle flight to go check...oh, fuck, that's right! Obama killed the Shuttle Program!

"Moreover, ocean warming is lagging behind the warming of the atmosphere. The melting of large polar ice sheets lags even farther behind."

Is that what you think this means?

Actually, if you think about it. The glaciers have to melt before the oceans rise. But that's not what they were talking about.

 

[The T]

Yadda yadda yadda, we're all gonna die, blah blah blah.

Indeed. Welcome to planet Earth. Welcome to the Solar System that revolves around__________________ that is uniquely responsible for warming/cooling depending upon activity of that huge contained thermonulear explosion that still goes on...WE...are at it's mercy.

 

[daveman]

Yadda yadda yadda, we're all gonna die, blah blah blah.

Indeed. Welcome to planet Earth. Welcome to the Solar System that revolves around__________________ that is uniquely responsible for warming/cooling depending upon activity of that huge contained thermonulear explosion that still goes on...WE...are at it's mercy.

I've been repeatedly assured that American SUVs and coal are the only possible cause.

 

[code1211]

Melting ice sheets contributed much more to rising sea levels than thermal expansion of warming ocean waters during the Last Interglacial Period, a UA-led team of researchers has found. The results further suggest that ocean levels continue to rise long after warming of the atmosphere levels off.

"Even though the oceans are absorbing a good deal of the total global warming, the atmosphere is warming faster than the oceans," McKay adds. "Moreover, ocean warming is lagging behind the warming of the atmosphere. The melting of large polar ice sheets lags even farther behind."

The authors cautioned that past evidence is not a prediction of the future, mostly because global temperatures during the Last Interglacial were driven by changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun.

However, current global warming is driven by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.

The Last Interglacial is the most recent time when sea levels were much higher and it's a time for which we have lots of data," McKay adds.

"The message is that the last time glaciers and ice sheets melted, sea levels rose by more than eight meters. Much of the world's population lives relatively close to sea level. This is going to have huge impacts, especially on poor countries," he adds.

Ocean rising may continue even after warming stops | R&D Mag

-----------------------

We have lots of data. Well, the right has plenty of competing data. Like Noah's Ark and the Bible. 6% of scienctists tell us so.

The ocean rise is "Lagging" the ice melt.











"Oh snap! We're supposed to be rising!" -- Atlantic Ocean

"Trouble me not, I'm visit a Dunkin Donuts" -- Indian Ocean

"Chill out! It's too early to rise" -- Pacific Ocean

Maybe the Neanderthal will help the oceans rise?

Maybe we can send up a Space Shuttle flight to go check...oh, fuck, that's right! Obama killed the Shuttle Program!

"Moreover, ocean warming is lagging behind the warming of the atmosphere. The melting of large polar ice sheets lags even farther behind."

Is that what you think this means?

Actually, if you think about it. The glaciers have to melt before the oceans rise. But that's not what they were talking about.

I seem to recall hearing somewhere that every glacier everywhere has melted. The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than ever. The sheet of ice in Antarctica is melting so fast that it's breaking apart and does so in exactly the same place every year.

Which coastal city on the planet is now under water due to sea level rise? There are quite a few to choose from if only there was one that had some evidence to support your claim. Evidence is such an easy thing to find if there is actrually something that produced it.

San Francisco? Long Beech? New York? Miami? Naples? Tripoli? Dubai? Hong Kong? Honolulu? Anchorage? Rio? All of these cities have had coast lines for a long time. Which one is under water?

 

[westwall]

May, could, might, possibly etc. The selective words of the bunko artist.

 

[percysunshine]

Everyone should drink more water.

...and walk real slow...

 

[rdean]

The ocean rise is "Lagging" the ice melt.











"Oh snap! We're supposed to be rising!" -- Atlantic Ocean

"Trouble me not, I'm visit a Dunkin Donuts" -- Indian Ocean

"Chill out! It's too early to rise" -- Pacific Ocean

Maybe the Neanderthal will help the oceans rise?

Maybe we can send up a Space Shuttle flight to go check...oh, fuck, that's right! Obama killed the Shuttle Program!

"Moreover, ocean warming is lagging behind the warming of the atmosphere. The melting of large polar ice sheets lags even farther behind."

Is that what you think this means?

Actually, if you think about it. The glaciers have to melt before the oceans rise. But that's not what they were talking about.

I seem to recall hearing somewhere that every glacier everywhere has melted. The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than ever. The sheet of ice in Antarctica is melting so fast that it's breaking apart and does so in exactly the same place every year.

Which coastal city on the planet is now under water due to sea level rise? There are quite a few to choose from if only there was one that had some evidence to support your claim. Evidence is such an easy thing to find if there is actrually something that produced it.

San Francisco? Long Beech? New York? Miami? Naples? Tripoli? Dubai? Hong Kong? Honolulu? Anchorage? Rio? All of these cities have had coast lines for a long time. Which one is under water?

Republican science: "I seem to recall hearing somewhere."

 

[Old Rocks]

CEOS

Since the beginning of high-accuracy satellite altimetry in the early 1990s, global mean sea level has been shown by both tide gauges and altimeters to be rising at a rate of just above 3 mm/year, compared to a rate of less than 2 mm/year from tide gauges over the previous century. The exact source of the accelerated rise is uncertain, but, with regard to future uncertainty, attention is being given to understanding the rate of loss of ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica. About half of the sea level rise during the first decade of the altimeter record can be attributed to thermal expansion due to a warming of the oceans; the other major contributions include the combined effects of melting glaciers and ice sheets.

 

[westwall]

"Moreover, ocean warming is lagging behind the warming of the atmosphere. The melting of large polar ice sheets lags even farther behind."

Is that what you think this means?

Actually, if you think about it. The glaciers have to melt before the oceans rise. But that's not what they were talking about.

I seem to recall hearing somewhere that every glacier everywhere has melted. The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than ever. The sheet of ice in Antarctica is melting so fast that it's breaking apart and does so in exactly the same place every year.

Which coastal city on the planet is now under water due to sea level rise? There are quite a few to choose from if only there was one that had some evidence to support your claim. Evidence is such an easy thing to find if there is actrually something that produced it.

San Francisco? Long Beech? New York? Miami? Naples? Tripoli? Dubai? Hong Kong? Honolulu? Anchorage? Rio? All of these cities have had coast lines for a long time. Which one is under water?

Republican science: "I seem to recall hearing somewhere."

Alarmist hand wringer science "I made this crap up and thinking people don't believe it but
scientific illiterates eat it up."

 

[westwall]

CEOS

Since the beginning of high-accuracy satellite altimetry in the early 1990s, global mean sea level has been shown by both tide gauges and altimeters to be rising at a rate of just above 3 mm/year, compared to a rate of less than 2 mm/year from tide gauges over the previous century. The exact source of the accelerated rise is uncertain, but, with regard to future uncertainty, attention is being given to understanding the rate of loss of ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica. About half of the sea level rise during the first decade of the altimeter record can be attributed to thermal expansion due to a warming of the oceans; the other major contributions include the combined effects of melting glaciers and ice sheets.

It seems to have dropped back to the level it was 8 years ago.

 

[Old Rocks]

And as the graph illustrates, is already heading up for a higher curve. Notice the nice reflection of ENSO conditions in the graph?

 

[westwall]

And as the graph illustrates, is already heading up for a higher curve. Notice the nice reflection of ENSO conditions in the graph?

It could also be a slight uptick before it plummets out of sight too, after all the rate of rise 2009 to 2010 was much steeper then the current upturn. The fact remains however that the claim of inexorable rise is proven wrong by the graph. The seas are not rising at a dramatically increased rate. Yes, they are rising, at about the same rate they have been rising for the last 1000 years or more.