Comments on: JPL’s new climate website: Yes, sea level rise has accelerated

By: porno

porno — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:34:19 +0000

To judge by actions, not words, the carbon-warming view hasn’t come close to persuading a political majority even in nations considered far more environmentally enlightened than China and India. Europe’s coal consumption is rising, not falling, and the Continent won’t come close to meeting the Kyoto targets for carbon reduction. Australia is selling coal to all comers.

By: shop

shop — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:01:17 +0000

So sea levels are now rising about 1.3 inches a decade. This is not yet worrisome, but if current emissions trends continues and the rate of sea level rise merely continues the same relationship to global temperature rise that it has in recent decades

By: John Hollenberg

John Hollenberg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:16:36 +0000

> The CharlesH spam message has made it to this site! Yay! The bot routine is working.

Yes, “CharlesH” has already posted this same message in two different threads here. I replied to the first one, not realizing it was “nuclear spam”. Thanks for the alert.

By: Dano

Dano — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:28:36 +0000

The CharlesH spam message has made it to this site! Yay! The bot routine is working.

Best,

By: Eli Rabett

Eli Rabett — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:52:17 +0000

I really hate the first graph. Since tidal gauges are still operating they should have continued that record through 2007 so we can judge whether the current trend is an acceleration, or a systematic defect in the gauge or satellite measurements.

By: Ron Wagner

Ron Wagner — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:25:19 +0000

We need to take advantage of this trend. As an example, California can route the ocean through the Stockton Delta into the desert areas of the state. It must be desalinated first, using wind or solar power. Many areas of the world need water for reclaiming deserts into agricultural land. Major irrigation progects could meet this need. This would also slow the rate of sea level rise. There are also recreational advantages, and lots of potential jobs.

Large parts of California and other areas are below sea level, and that would make it easy to transfer water through siphon pipes.

Redistribution of fresh water from areas with too much, to areas in need is also a great idea, and should be mandated by the national governments.

By: charlesH

charlesH — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:22:40 +0000

http://www.forbes.com/opinions/forbes/2 … 1/094.html

“A number of influential people in Russia, China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam say the planet is now entering a 30-year cooling period, the second half of a normal cycle driven by cyclical changes in the sun’s output and currents in the Pacific Ocean. Their theory leaves true believers in carbon catastrophe livid.

It seems that “do with out, use wind, use solar, use bio …… is not working. Everyone is using more coal. Do you have a plan B?

Do you really prefer coal over nuclear?

By: Dano

Dano — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:54:26 +0000

I suspect that the ‘2012′ in the moniker of the commenter above is the high school graduation year. Let’s move on.

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By: Publius 2012

Publius 2012 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:59:59 +0000

5 feet by 2100? Everybody panic!!!!
WTF? Climate change will be linear for the next 100 years? Are you joking?

[JR: nobody said climate change will be linear for the next 100 years. This analysis merely looked at what would happen if future trends were an extrapolation of past trends. I have little doubt that the author of the paper would agree that in fact sea level rise could be considerably higher..

But I don't get your first sentence at all. Do you have any idea what an unmitigated catastrophe of sea level rise of 5 feet by 2100 would be (not to mention the 6 inches then being added every decade)? More than 100 million people would lose their home.]

By: Tom G

Tom G — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:46:21 +0000

Since natural shorelines are sloped, not vertical, to get an increase in sea-level rise, there must be an even larger rate of increase in the volume of water added.
An obvious point, but I thought it worth mentioning.