Yeah, About That Sea Level Rise Accelerating Meme….

You alarmists always want peer reviewed  (despite the majority of what you cite being flights of fantasy with little to no basis in science), so, here you go, from the Journal of Geophysical Research (Via The Hockey Schtick)

The 20th century regional and global sea level variations are estimated based on long-term tide gauge records. For this the neural network technique is utilized that connects the coastal sea level with the regional and global mean via a nonlinear empirical relationship. Two major difficulties are overcome this way: the vertical movement of tide gauges over time and the problem of what weighting function to choose for each individual tide gauge record. Neural networks are also used to fill data gaps in the tide gauge records, which is a prerequisite for our analysis technique. A suite of different gap-filling strategies is tested which provides information about stability and variance of the results. The global mean sea level for the period January 1900 to December 2006 is estimated to rise at a rate of 1.56 ± 0.25 mm/yr which is reasonably consistent with earlier estimates, but we do not find significant acceleration. The regional mean sea level of the single ocean basins show mixed long-term behavior. While most of the basins show a sea level rise of varying strength there is an indication for a mean sea level fall in the southern Indian Ocean. Also for the the tropical Indian and the South Atlantic no significant trend can be detected. Nevertheless, the South Atlantic as well as the tropical Atlantic are the only basins that show significant acceleration. On shorter timescales, but longer than the annual cycle, the basins sea level are dominated by oscillations with periods of about 50–75 years and of about 25 years. Consequently, we find high (lagged) correlations between the single basins.

Essentially, what has been happening is what has been happening for approximately the last 7,000 years, as the sea level rise post-Ice Age leveled out.

Sucks when all your talking points keep getting shot down, eh, Believers?

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3 Responses to “Yeah, About That Sea Level Rise Accelerating Meme….”

  1. 11B40 says:

    Greetings:

    One time a while back, I lost a sweetheart of whom I was very fond because she thought I was having a nonlinear empirical relationship.

  2. Otter says:

    Not to wsorry, ‘lil LIAR has an ad-hom to cover it.

  3. David says:

    I am not sure if anyone has the answer. But if you read Skeptic Inquirer you will find that they are consistently favorable to AGW. These people seem to be objective in many other areas, such as the cholesterol myth, but are completely hung up on AGW. They actually can not see the fraud associated with the claims and the “science”. Does anyone have some insight on the magazine and the editors?

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