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BBC Raises Sea Levels Ahead of Copenhagen
So, the BBC can report an unverifiable sea level rise by an arbitrary ’2100,’ but it can’t report the verifiable evidence from the Climategate leaked emails scandal i.e. IPCC lead author Kevin Trenberth stating that we don’t understand the Earth’s ‘energy budget’ or a decade of non-warming. Then there is the knobbling of the peer review process and the IPCC reports by a small but influential group of activist scientists, FOIA avoidance, deletion of emails pertaining to AR4, and the relatively minor trick of doctoring graphs to hide the divergence of proxy temperature data from instrumental data.
No, instead with have a climate scare-fest timed to support the Copenhagen summit. As for East and West Antarctica, they have had divergent climate histories for the past 14 million years – Data from the Dry Valleys reveals an East Antarctic Ice Sheet that is high, dry, cold, and stable, at least in its central area. And the ANDRILL cores suggest a more volatile West Antarctic Ice Sheet that is subject to the changing temperatures of the sea in which it wades (Science 30 May 2008). In fact, in the published literature, global mean sea level rise is constrained to lesss than 1 metre by 2100:
Identifying the causes of sea-level change by Glenn A. Milne, W.Roland Gehrels, Chris W. Hughes & Mark E. Tamisiea, Nature Geoscience Published online: 14 June 2009 | doi:10.1038/ngeo544
Kinematic Constraints on Glacier Contributions to 21st-Century Sea-Level Rise by W. T. Pfeffer, J. T. Harper, S. O’Neel, Science 5 September 2008: Vol. 321. no. 5894, pp. 1340 – 1343 DOI:10.1126/science.1159099
Also, The ice melt during the Antarctic summer (October-January) of 2008-2009 was the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history:
from Tedesco M., and A. J. Monaghan, 2009. An updated Antarctic melt record through 2009 and its linkages to high-latitude and tropical climate variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L18502.
Currently, we are in a decade long period of global temperature stagnation, there has been no increase in Ocean Heat Content since about 2004, global average sea levels haven’t risen since 2006. No one knows what is going to happen next, but an interesting take from flip-flop scientist, new ice age/global warming, Stephen Schneider from the leaked CRU emails:
On Oct 12, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Stephen H Schneider wrote:
Hi all. Any of you want to explain decadal natural variability and
signal to noise and sampling errors to this new “IPCC Lead Author”
from the BBC? As we enter an El Nino year and as soon, as the
sunspots get over their temporary–presumed–vacation worth a few tenths
of a Watt per meter squared reduced forcing, there will likely be
another dramatic upward spike like 1992-2000.
Kevin Trenberth said: The fact is that we can’t account for the lack
of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES
data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there
should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our
observing system is inadequate.
On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Kevin Trenberth wrote:
Hi Tom
How come you do not agree with a statement that says we are no where
close to knowing where energy is going or whether clouds are changing
to make the planet brighter. We are not close to balancing the energy
budget. The fact that we can not account for what is happening in the
climate system makes any consideration of geoengineering quite
hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not!
It is a travesty!
Kevin
So much for ‘settled science.’ The BBC have effectively censored the revelations of the CRU email/data leaks in favour of unfounded, unverifiable climate alarmism aimed at supporting UN global governance and taxation via a Copenhagen, or subsequent, Treaty in the false name of climate control.