Launched in 2002, Envisat is the largest Earth Observation spacecraft ever built. It carries ten sophisticated optical and radar instruments to provide continuous observation and monitoring of the Earth’s land, atmosphere, oceans and ice caps. Envisat data collectively provide a wealth of information on the workings of the Earth system, including insights into factors contributing to climate change.
If you wanted to hide this, how would you do it?
http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/
You might want to make it almost invisible yellow. Let’s shift the hues and see what happens.
Oops! It turns out sea level is hardly rising. Now, let’s remove all of the “adjustments” to Envisat data.
http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/
We see a rise rate which is about one-fourth of what the global warming community claims.
Even with all the adjustments, rates are about one-third of what the global warming community claims.
http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/
1.2 mm/year is much lower than alarmist claims, but is about triple the mean of NOAA tide gauges.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/MSL_global_trendtable.html
So, we can see that sea level claims are exaggerated by somewhere between 3-9X, which seems to be in line with other bloated IPCC numbers.
You still have wait 21 years for 1 (one) lousy stinking climate science data point.
(If it works that long)
Sorry John:
With known variations in regional weather patterns you may have to wait 30 years just to determine the latest high or low and another 30 to find the opposite number. It is possible you might not observe an entire “Cycle” in short term weather patterns for 80 years or longer and then you have to take into consideration the even longer term weather patterns such as 1000, 40,000, or 120,000 and some in between!
Satellite records are helpful to understand weather but using them for climate is a fool’s game.
This is a three year trend. I wouldn’t say three years is trivial, even if there is a long term uptrend. Time will tell whether the short term trend will hold.
Supposedly we have had record melt in Greenland and Antarctica during the last few years. Did the water go down the rabbit hole?
Wascally sea wevel!
Well we do have record melt.
Also we have islands going underwater – so satellite data is relevant to the displaced island dwellers how?
Maybe the data has been corrected due to errors in the system? Cause the sea level is higher by measurements from the ground.
I have never seen so much irrelevant and pointless argument to turn the data into something it isn’t.
Which island do you think is going underwater?
Nice work Steven, as usual very informative, educational, clearly presented and on target dealing with the facts. It’s also nice they give out their raw data.
I noticed some problems with the Mean Sea Level graphs from the University of Colorado and made a blink comparison video of it here:
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2011/04/25/questions-about-the-historical-global-mean-sea-level-graphs-from-the-university-of-colorado/