[Vision2020] Dr. Jeff Masters, 2-15-18 Sea Level Rise is Accelerating, Says Unnerving New Research

[Ted Moffett]

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Accelerating rates of sea-level rise has long been predicted, thus I am not
sure why Dr. Jeff Masters finds this new research "unnerving.'  But of
course these findings should be "unnerving" to all except those
psychologically numbed to the dire outcomes of anthropogenic global
warming, or those who are denying the science.... Maybe I've become numbed..
-------------------------------------Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences:
Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter
era
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/02/06/1717312115
-----------------------------------Sea Level Rise is Accelerating, Says
Unnerving New Research
* Dr. Jeff Masters <https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/author/jeff.masters> *
 ·  February 15, 2018

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/sea-level-rise-accelerating-says-unnerving-new-research

Not only is sea level rising, it is rising at an increasing amount each
year, found a hugely important study of global sea level published on
Monday in *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*. The
paper, Climate-change–driven
accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era
<http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/02/06/1717312115>*, *looked at 25
years of satellite-based global sea level measurements taken by four
satellites. The researchers found that global sea levels rose by an average
of 3 millimeters per year, plus or minus 0.4 mm/yr, but this rate has been
accelerating by 0.084 ± 0.025 mm/y2 over the past 25 years. If this
acceleration were to continue through the end of the century, global sea
level rise between 2005 and 2100 would be about 26 inches (65 centimeters),
which is more than double the rise of 11 inches (28 centimeters) that would
occur if sea level rise stayed constant at 3 mm/yr.
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