Comments on: UK Daily Express: 100 reasons why climate change is natural http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/?p=2370&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uk-daily-mail-100-reasons-why-climate-change-is-natural Just don't tell me the debate is over… Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:07:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John O'Sullivan http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/?p=2370&cpage=1#comment-913 John O'Sullivan Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:26:00 +0000 http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/?p=2370#comment-913 Well done, Daily Express for pointing out there's a lot of hot air over nothing in Copenhagen! It all seems rather pointless to a coastal dweller like me. You see, I live on the picturesque east coast of England where house prices go through the roof. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about so I started reading up on what Al Gore and the United Nations’ IPCC had to say. Apparently, the story goes that the ice caps and glaciers are melting so fast that in the next 50 years sea levels may rise up to 30 feet. Wow! But hold on a minute, I have never seen any evidence for it in my back yard. Oh dear! Apparently, I’m now a ‘flat earth denier’ for being sceptical of good old Al. Not being one to like being called names I did some reading what oceanographers – not climatologists or Al Gore – had to say about sea level rises. Here is what I found. Apparently, the most reliable data on sea levels comes from a set of the world’s tidal gauges. There is a very good web site on this by the University of Colorado where they present two graphs, Jason-1 Calibration and TOPEX Calibration. That’s funny, I thought, when I looked at it. Because those measurements say very similar things to what I read on other web sites. It seems a lot of oceanographers agree with the Colorado numbers. They include peer-reviewed papers by Antonov et al. (2005); Ishii et al. (2005) and Willis et al. (2005) who all report rises equal to seven inches per century. I then looked closer to home and found that here in England we have Simon Holgate from the U.K.’s Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory. Holgate in 2007 produced a history of global sea level from 1904 to 2003 based upon a set of reliable, long-term observations from nine tide gauge stations scattered around the world. He also finds that the levels are rising by about 7 inches per century. Is this normal? Well, apparently, yes because that’s exactly the rate of sea level rise we’ve been seeing naturally ever since the last ice age 11,000 years ago. Phew! Seems like the realtors in my area got their numbers right and Al Gore got his wrong. Maybe we won’t be paying all those climate taxes after all? Well done, Daily Express for pointing out there's a lot of hot air over nothing in Copenhagen! It all seems rather pointless to a coastal dweller like me. You see, I live on the picturesque east coast of England where house prices go through the roof. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about so I started reading up on what Al Gore and the United Nations’ IPCC had to say. Apparently, the story goes that the ice caps and glaciers are melting so fast that in the next 50 years sea levels may rise up to 30 feet. Wow! But hold on a minute, I have never seen any evidence for it in my back yard. Oh dear! Apparently, I’m now a ‘flat earth denier’ for being sceptical of good old Al.
Not being one to like being called names I did some reading what oceanographers – not climatologists or Al Gore – had to say about sea level rises.
Here is what I found. Apparently, the most reliable data on sea levels comes from a set of the world’s tidal gauges. There is a very good web site on this by the University of Colorado where they present two graphs, Jason-1 Calibration and TOPEX Calibration. That’s funny, I thought, when I looked at it. Because those measurements say very similar things to what I read on other web sites. It seems a lot of oceanographers agree with the Colorado numbers. They include peer-reviewed papers by Antonov et al. (2005); Ishii et al. (2005) and Willis et al. (2005) who all report rises equal to seven inches per century.
I then looked closer to home and found that here in England we have Simon Holgate from the U.K.’s Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory. Holgate in 2007 produced a history of global sea level from 1904 to 2003 based upon a set of reliable, long-term observations from nine tide gauge stations scattered around the world. He also finds that the levels are rising by about 7 inches per century. Is this normal?
Well, apparently, yes because that’s exactly the rate of sea level rise we’ve been seeing naturally ever since the last ice age 11,000 years ago. Phew! Seems like the realtors in my area got their numbers right and Al Gore got his wrong. Maybe we won’t be paying all those climate taxes after all?

]]> By: The AGW Worm Turns, Twice « SOYLENT GREEN http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/?p=2370&cpage=1#comment-912 The AGW Worm Turns, Twice « SOYLENT GREEN Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:32:23 +0000 http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/?p=2370#comment-912 [...] The second developmnent concerns the media treatment of AGW. Behold: The Daily Express’ “100 Reasons Global Awrming is Natural.” [...] [...] The second developmnent concerns the media treatment of AGW. Behold: The Daily Express’ “100 Reasons Global Awrming is Natural.” [...]

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