Dervish said
Melting glaciers = more precipitation. It has to come down somewhere.
Melting glaciers = increase in ocean levels.
Precipitation =/= snow.
It can snow in July, hail in August and rain in February.
In fact, one year in August, I was in Boston and I was coming back to NY on a Greyhound bus. All of a sudden it started hailing in the middle of the fucking summer. Shortly before this happened, we saw an Amish dude riding a horse-drawn carriage.
Fucking Amish.
Global warming is just QUARTER what we thought - and computers got the effects of greenhouse gases wrong
Yet the leaked report makes the extraordinary concession that over the past 15 years, recorded world temperatures have increased at only a quarter of the rate of IPCC claimed when it published its last assessment in 2007.
One of the report’s own authors, Professor Myles Allen, the director of Oxford University’s Climate Research Network, last night said this should be the last IPCC assessment – accusing its cumbersome production process of ‘misrepresenting how science works’.
Last night Professor Judith Curry, head of climate science at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, said the leaked summary showed that ‘the science is clearly not settled, and is in a state of flux’.
Sauce: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420783/Worlds-climate-scientists-confess-Global-warming-just-QUARTER-thought--computers-got-effects-greenhouse-gases-wrong.html
Many records are defective in one way or another. Many have gaps or sudden changes, Few have a long-term continuous record. Frequently there is little sign of change during the recent decade. evidence. that currently there is little or no change in sea level. The following figure from Chapter 13, FAQ 13.1 Figure 1. illustrates this error.
It shows six tide gauge records compared with the supposed global average..
The actual current records, which are shown (rather small), disagree with this supposed trend
-San Francisco is unchanged since 1990.
-Charlottetown is unchanged from 1995 to 2010.
-Antofagasta is unchanged from 1980 to 2012
-Pago Pago is unchanged since 2000.
-Stockholm is actually falling.
-Manila is a rogue record.The following website states that the gauge is subject to subsidence
The following records from the Philippines, show no recent rise.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_global_station.shtml?stnid=660-011
Sauce: http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/map.html