Is sea level rising?

[abandonconflict]

Sea level is rising at an increasing rate.

There is strong evidence that global sea level is now rising at an increased rate and will continue to rise during this century.

While studies show that sea levels changed little from AD 0 until 1900, sea levels began to climb in the 20th century.

The two major causes of global sea-level rise are thermal expansion caused by the warming of the oceans (since water expands as it warms) and the loss of land-based ice (such as glaciers and polar ice caps) due to increased melting.

Records and research show that sea level has been steadily rising at a rate of 0.04 to 0.1 inches per year since 1900.

This rate may be increasing. Since 1992, new methods of satellite altimetry (the measurement of elevation or altitude) indicate a rate of rise of 0.12 inches per year.

This is a significantly larger rate than the sea-level rise averaged over the last several thousand years.

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sealevel.html

 

[UncleBuck]

hiatus.

 

[sheskunk]

OH NOES!!!!!!

 

[abandonconflict]

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new satellite study. The findings of the study -- the longest to date of changes in polar ice sheet mass -- suggest these ice sheets are overtaking ice loss from Earth's mountain glaciers and ice caps to become the dominant contributor to global sea level rise, much sooner than model forecasts have predicted.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308150228.htm

 

[desert dude]

Well, dam.

 

[drolove]

i live on the water. i see no rising.... lol

 

[NLXSK1]

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new satellite study. The findings of the study -- the longest to date of changes in polar ice sheet mass -- suggest these ice sheets are overtaking ice loss from Earth's mountain glaciers and ice caps to become the dominant contributor to global sea level rise, much sooner than model forecasts have predicted.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308150228.htm

Well, the model forecasts certainly couldnt be wrong....

 

[heckler73]

 

[Hazydat620]

To put it visually for some of you.

might as well watch the second clip also, is that the labor utopia you want see in America? Illiterate and no govt. regulations?

 

[Saulamus]

i live on the water. i see no rising.... lol

Wait for it...

 

[Dr Kynes]

Sea level is rising at an increasing rate.
There is strong evidence that global sea level is now rising at an increased rate and will continue to rise during this century.

While studies show that sea levels changed little from AD 0 until 1900, sea levels began to climb in the 20th century.

The two major causes of global sea-level rise are thermal expansion caused by the warming of the oceans (since water expands as it warms) and the loss of land-based ice (such as glaciers and polar ice caps) due to increased melting.

Records and research show that sea level has been steadily rising at a rate of 0.04 to 0.1 inches per year since 1900.

This rate may be increasing. Since 1992, new methods of satellite altimetry (the measurement of elevation or altitude) indicate a rate of rise of 0.12 inches per year.

This is a significantly larger rate than the sea-level rise averaged over the last several thousand years.

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sealevel.html

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_09/

NASA says thats bullshit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise

even wikipedia says thats bullshit.

sea levels have been gradually rising for the last 8000 years due to a LONG TERM WARMING TREND which is part of the natural and unstoppable glacial cycle.

 

[Saulamus]

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_09/

NASA says thats bullshit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise

even wikipedia says thats bullshit.

sea levels have been gradually rising for the last 8000 years due to a LONG TERM WARMING TREND which is part of the natural and unstoppable glacial cycle.

They're both really just guessing, educated guesses, but guesses nonetheless. Intuitively, as the amount of ice one the planet decreases, the amount of water in other states must be increasing. Since all bodies of water that flow end up in the oceans, guess what's happening to the sea-level?

 

[Dr Kynes]

They're both really just guessing, educated guesses, but guesses nonetheless. Intuitively, as the amount of ice one the planet decreases, the amount of water in other states must be increasing. Since all bodies of water that flow end up in the oceans, guess what's happening to the sea-level?

and guess what will happen to the sea levels when the icecaps start growing again?

we have been in a LONG TERM WARMING TREND since the end of the last major glaciation, some 12000 years ago.

eventually we may have no ice caps at all (that happens every 6-8 glaciations or so, and we are due)
all the previous ice-cap-free periods were 100% non-anthropogenic.

why do you think the netherlands and holland built dykes for the last several hundred years?

why do you think you cant walk from siberia to alaska any more?

did you know england and france used to be connected by land?

sea levels have been rising for a long ass time, pretending that this is new shit is hysterical fearmongering.

and eventually sea levels will start dropping as the ice caps return, and there aint nothing we can do to stop it

 

[ChesusRice]

rising sea levels are a myth created by communist eco loons who only wish to enrich Al Gore and his global warming scam

 

[Dr Kynes]

rising sea levels are a myth created by communist eco loons who only wish to enrich Al Gore and his global warming scam

reductio ad retardum.

i clearly stated that sea levels have been rising for some time, and will continue to do so no matter how stupid and panicked you might be.

fucking clownshoes.

 

[Saulamus]

and guess what will happen to the sea levels when the icecaps start growing again?

we have been in a LONG TERM WARMING TREND since the end of the last major glaciation, some 12000 years ago.

eventually we may have no ice caps at all (that happens every 6-8 glaciations or so, and we are due)
all the previous ice-cap-free periods were 100% non-anthropogenic.

why do you think the netherlands and holland built dykes for the last several hundred years?

why do you think you cant walk from siberia to alaska any more?

did you know england and france used to be connected by land?

sea levels have been rising for a long ass time, pretending that this is new shit is hysterical fearmongering.

and eventually sea levels will start dropping as the ice caps return, and there aint nothing we can do to stop it

True stories, as best we can tell. Agreed on the fear mongering, people do need to be aware it's actually occurring though. I'm happy that most people have stopped arguing whether climate change is occurring or not.

Is it humanity's fault? probably not in the greater part. Do we have anything to do with it? Most certainly, just the respiration of 7.2+ billion people is bound to have some effects, then add to that, all of the other stuff we add to or remove from the natural system. A system so vast and complicated that we remain very far from being able to understand it well enough to give any definitive answer or affect it intentionally. Well at least and get the intended results.

 

[Saulamus]

rising sea levels are a myth created by communist eco loons who only wish to enrich Al Gore and his global warming scam

Sigh. They just keep building better idiots; don't they? I did say most.

 

[desert dude]

rising sea levels are a myth created by communist eco loons who only wish to enrich Al Gore and his global warming scam

That Al Gore has found his way into your pocket based on a natural phenomenon says something about the ratio of Al's IQ to yours. What's that old maxim, something about a fool and his money?

 

[sheskunk]

It is ALL mans fault. There is NO denying it.

 

[heckler73]

Doom Porn...

Global sea level (thin line) since late 1992 according to the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research at University of Colorado at Boulder. Further details are given in the caption to the diagram above. The thick stippled line represents a two-degree polynomium. The polynomium suggests the rate of the ongoing global sea level rise to be slowly decreasing. Time is shown along the x-axis as fractions of calendar years. Last diagram update: 17 November 2014.

Acceleration? They must mean in the negative direction...
Meanwhile...

WILLIE SOON LOVES YOU!

And so does Albert Parker:
www.pattern-recognition-in-physics.com/pub/prp-2-65-2014.pdf

If there is any effect of global warming, this should be detected by an increase in the relative rates of rise measured locally by the tide gauges with a consolidated and accurate procedure.
Because this is not the case, I must conclude that there is no effect of global warming on the rates of rise of sea levels.