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benj <nobody@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/08/2015 09:02 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
>> Data Plot of the Day
>>> http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/hires/2013/th6hjtyhj.jpg
>>
>> New study finds sea level rose 2.4 mm/year between 2005 and 2011
>>> http://phys.org/news/2013-06-sea-rose-mmyear.html#nRlv
>>
>>
>>> (Phys.org) ?A new study conducted by researchers at the University of
>>> Texas' Center for Space Research, indicates that sea level rise
>>> between 2005 and 2011 was due primarily to glacial and polar ice
>>> shelf melting. In their paper published in Nature Geoscience, the
>>> team describes how they studied data from satellites and ocean
>>> surface sensors to measure changes in ocean mass and density which
>>> allowed them to calculate an average global sea level rise of nearly
>>> 2.4mm/year.
>>>
>>> The researchers note that sea level changes come about in three main
>>> ways: changes in the mass of the water in the ocean, its density, and
>>> changes in the volume of ocean basins. To measure all of these over
>>> the period 2005 to 2011, the team studied data from the Gravity
>>> Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and from the Argo project (a
>>> global array of 3,500 profiling floats that record ocean temperatures
>>> and salinity on an ongoing basis.)
>>>
>>> Gravity data from GRACE allows researchers to measure the mass of the
>>> world's oceans (divided into six regions) and thus the changes that
>>> occur over time. The data showed, the researchers report, a global
>>> increase in ocean mass that led to an average ocean level rise of
>>> 1.8mm/year during the years studied. They suggest the increase in
>>> mass was due to melting of the polar ice sheets and glaciers atop
>>> mountains around the globe.
> 
> And you love this plot because? How are you going to get that 3 meter 
> rise you have been trying to scare everyone with at 2.4mm a year? It's 
> going to take a while.
> 
> Notice too that the while they say sea rise is mainly due to polar ice 
> melting (did you get the memo that the ice age is over and seas have 
> been rising ever since?) there is no visible kink in the curve at 
> roughly the year 2000. That is when global warming stopped! Thus, 
> clearly anthropogenic global warming is NOT causing the standard 
> post-ice age sea rise.
> 
> And finally we should note that the study does not seem to take into 
> account land sinking (mostly due to ground water pumping) which in the 
> past has accounted for most sea rise over 2mm a year.
> 
> What say you Sammy? Are you ready to follow the charter you keep posting 
> and actually discuss these issues or are you just going to keep spamming 
> the horseshit from phys.org and keep pretending they have a brain?
 
The spamming shit head is incapable of anything other than cut and
paste from his favorite websites. 
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Data Plot of the Day Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-08 20:02 -0500
  Re: Data Plot of the Day benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 00:11 -0400
    Re: Data Plot of the Day jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-09 05:08 +0000
  Re: Data Plot of the Day jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-09 04:05 +0000

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