14 Jan
2013
14 Jan
'13
10:49 p.m.
13 millimetres in the last 160 years, that's the total measurable sea rise.
The indicator to look at in that area isn't the amount over the prior 160 years, but rather more-recent observed rise: 3.3 mm over the sixteen years from 1993 to 2009, as measured by satellite altimetry.[1] That is a radical acceleration.
I must admit one of the things that quite surprised when I first started researching this subject many years ago is that sea level rise varies by location. You'd expect it to be the same! But this is not the case... for example; http://www.oceanclimatechange.org.au/content/images/uploads/sea_level_fig2.j... -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt