Sea Level Rise

[beso]

Last year we discussed Climate Change at some considerable length and some posters pointed to the substantial fall in the sea level during 2010 as evidence that scientists had got it wrong.

Here is an update to that data released last month.
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/

Observe how the sea level rebounded during 2011 and has once again reached the 3.1 mm per year upward trend after one of the fastest rises since the satellites were deployed.

As I posted at the time, scientists had indicated the fall in 2010 was consistent with modelling. It was due to the ENSO La Nina event putting vast quantities of water onto Australia and South East Asia. (At the peak an area the size of France and Germany was covered by water in Australia.)

The ENSO index is once again negative and the sea level has responded precisely as expected. If the index stays low then we will see a swing in the sea level go above the trend line.

Observations are increasingly indicating that the changes to our planet's climate are progressing even faster than the most pessimistic of the climate models. Research continues to find more factors that amplify the effects of the already known factors.

Texas suffered the hottest and driest growing season since records began in 1895. November 2011 was the second warmest in the UK since records began in 1659.

How much more needs to be done to convince you that Global Warming is real and needs to be addressed by working toward a low carbon economy?

[jake-the-peg]

You never read the responses to your ridiculous claims about grapes do you DT?

One more time

MYTH!!!

http://www.realclimat...mth-and-english-wine/

If anything the "wine data" shows it's warmer now

We have Vineyards in Durham now For Funks Sake!

[wildwood]

Some of these ice shelves in danger of total collapse are as big as a small country.

http://www.guardian.c...r/26/poles.antarctica