Fact checking for the New York Times Editorial Board: Editorial claims ‘Climate warnings growing louder.’
…Good news: World’s biggest ice sheets likely more stable than previously believed – upsets previous estimates of melting and sea level
…Another blow to ‘consensus’ science: ‘Pacific islands growing, not sinking…Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands (including media hyped Tuvalu) are growing, not sinking’
…New paper finds large increases of snowfall on East Antarctica could significantly reduce sea level rise – Published in Geophysical Research Letters
…No Warming In Antarctica Since The Start Of Satellite Records
…Michael Mann’s Scary New Sea Level Predictions Identified As Bogus, Confirms 97% Consensus That He Distorts Truth
…The madness of NASA’s James Hansen: Trace amounts of CO2 may make the weather so warm that ‘even a person lying quietly naked in hurricane force winds would be unable to survive’; he envisions a few wealthy people desperately defending homes high in the Himalayan peaks against masses fleeing CO2-induced apocalypse
…Warmist U.S. Admiral David Titley Goes To Santa Barbara Calif. & Warns of Big Sea Level Rise — But ‘there has been no sea level rise in Santa Barbara since the start of records in the 1970s’
…Atmopshereic Physicist Dr. Fred Singer reacts to media touted Greenland/Antarctic ice study
Number of the Week: 55.5 mm or 2.2 inches per century. The international research group of polar scientists, IMBIE, announced that melting glacial ice on Greenland and Antarctica has increased sea levels by 11.1 mm over 20 years, from 1992 to 2011, which can be extrapolated to the numbers above. However, one must not rely on long run extrapolations from short run data.
Yet, IMBIE did so. It stated that sea level rise increased in the second decade over the first decade. What is particularly interesting is the early data shows a decline in sea levels from an accumulation of ice, which indicates a cooling. Yet the 1980s and 1990s were decades of warming.
Further, there has been no surface warming for about 15 years. This indicates that the ice melt does reflect current temperatures, and other factors must be involved. If ice melt constitutes 30% of the sea level rise as the article suggests, then the 21 st century increase will be at the low end of the range suggested by the IPCC, which is consistent with Fred Singer’s suggestions, and far from Jim Hansen’s predictions.
It is also interesting that news reports, such as in the Washington Post, excitedly reported the polar melt and sea level rise, but failed to provide information on how tiny the rise is. Please see Article # 1 (for a graph), links under Communicating Better to the Public – Exaggerate, or be Vague?, Changing Seas, and http://imbie.org/
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