Willis over at WUWT put his two cents worth in about SLR acceleration. Sea Level Rise Accelerating? Not.
He likes to use the actual available data, and works things out for himself.
One of the warmer sites found an error in his back-of-the-envelope calculations. What was his response? He acknowledged them, thanked them, and refined his work. Totally unlike their response when the tables were reversed.
Willis was originally responding to another article done by a statistician who has had numerous criticisms of climate science methodologies over the years. The surprising news from scientists about rising sea levels!
Speaking of revisions, AVISO hasn't been updating for months. The last time this happened we got a reanalysis of the data and the GIA adjustment. Care to make a prediction about the SLR trend when they come back on line? Hahahaha. I think we all know it will be increased.
He likes to use the actual available data, and works things out for himself.
I would also note that the average acceleration of the entire 63-station dataset is 0.014 ± 0.008, still not statistically significant. And if this turns out to be the long-term acceleration, currently the rate of rise is on the order of a couple of mm/yr, or 166 mm (about 7 inches) by the year 2100. IF this increases at 0.014 mm/yr2, this will make a difference of 48 mm (under two inches) this century.
One of the warmer sites found an error in his back-of-the-envelope calculations. What was his response? He acknowledged them, thanked them, and refined his work. Totally unlike their response when the tables were reversed.
Willis was originally responding to another article done by a statistician who has had numerous criticisms of climate science methodologies over the years. The surprising news from scientists about rising sea levels!
There are some tentative signs that the rate of increase is already accelerating, rather than just fluctuating. But the data is noisy (lots of natural variation) and the (tentative) acceleration is small — near the resolving power of these systems (hence the significance of the frequent revisions).
Speaking of revisions, AVISO hasn't been updating for months. The last time this happened we got a reanalysis of the data and the GIA adjustment. Care to make a prediction about the SLR trend when they come back on line? Hahahaha. I think we all know it will be increased.