Oh noes! Sea level rising three times faster than expected (again)

UPDATE: The serial regurgitation has started. See the end of the article.

Somehow, I just can’t get past the picture of the guy in the beret who seems to be saying to the cameraman “Look the island! It is disappearing before our eyes!”. Red underline mine.

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Now here’s the interesting part…we’ve apparently seen this sea level rising 3x faster “secret leaked report” before:

Yep, back in 2009, the same claims were made, right about the time of the Copenhagen Climate Conference. Of course it isn’t surprising to see Climate Progress leading the pack with such disinformation, it is what the blogger is paid to do. But. let’s look at the unpaid reality of the data.

From this post by Willis Eschenbach: Putting the Brakes on Acceleration he plots the satellite data up to September of 2010. If anything it looks like the trend is slightly decelerating:

And, as we’ve seen from the latest JASON-1 and JASON-2 data, plotted by RomanM, there does not seem to be any acceleration in sea level rise. In fact it seems quite linear. The data speaks for itself, with a general slight downturn in the JASON1-2 data since late 2009:

Of course, the fact that this is old news and that when you examine the claims, they just don’t hold up. Nope that won’t stop the “secret leaked report” from being released tomorrow here at http://www.amap.no/ and a serial regurgitation by news media.

h/t to Duncan and CTM

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UPDATE: Here we go…

http://www.independentmail.com/news/2011/may/03/new-report-confirms-arctic-melt-accelerating/

Here is the list of stories from Google so far. The best thing our readers can do is visiti these links and place comments if they are allowed, showing that so far, sea level rise has not accelerated at all. – Anthony

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Spector
May 5, 2011 9:14 pm

RE: Accelerating
Just a reminder, for many, especially those who have not had a course in college calculus, the word ‘accelerating’ may be indistinguishable from ‘increasing.’

rizzo
May 6, 2011 7:18 am

Well obviously we’ve got alarmists, look at Al Gore, aka the worst thing to happen to environmentalism this century. Regardless, it’s probably best that we start cutting back on CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gasses. The jet stream and North Atlantic currents are already starting to get screwed up. I’m not worried about being NYC being underwater, I’m worried about ice storms all winter in Pennsylvania and tornadoes and flooding killing hundreds in the midwest every year.

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