Global warming is accelerating, but how much? NCDC data in OP:

[wirebender]

Satellite observations available since the early 1990s provide more accurate sea level data with nearly global coverage. This decade-long satellite altimetry data set shows that since 1993, sea level has been rising at a rate of around 3 mm yr–1, significantly higher than the average during the previous half century. Coastal tide gauge measurements confirm this observation, and indicate that similar rates have occurred in some earlier decades.

Only your ignorance lets you read that with anything like acceptance. Historically, tidal markers have put sea level rise at 2mm per year practically since the time tides have been measured. Then the year the sattellites started measuring, the number magically went to 3 mm. Do you actually believe that sea level rise coincidentally increased 50% the very year the satellites went on line? If you do, then you are exactly as stupid and gullible as I believe you to be.

 

[IanC]

Satellite observations available since the early 1990s provide more accurate sea level data with nearly global coverage. This decade-long satellite altimetry data set shows that since 1993, sea level has been rising at a rate of around 3 mm yr–1, significantly higher than the average during the previous half century. Coastal tide gauge measurements confirm this observation, and indicate that similar rates have occurred in some earlier decades.

Only your ignorance lets you read that with anything like acceptance. Historically, tidal markers have put sea level rise at 2mm per year practically since the time tides have been measured. Then the year the sattellites started measuring, the number magically went to 3 mm. Do you actually believe that sea level rise coincidentally increased 50% the very year the satellites went on line? If you do, then you are exactly as stupid and gullible as I believe you to be.

see? there are some things we can agree on. tidal gauges just keep on measuring. satellites on the other hand come and go. every time a new on comes on line there is an effort to take up the slack in the direction of more SLR. in the last few years that was not enough so they started adding wholesale 'adjustments' to the data.

 

[bobgnote]

Bitches, you can't beat sat data, with computer geometry, for measuring an entire planet, 24/7.

When do you idiots get with the rest of the class? Obviously, Wienerbitch isn't going to make it. Crapforbrains, if you don't want to get smarter, then you don't have to. And the hottest year on record will happen, not just every several years, but soon enough, about every other year will be the hottest, until you denier bitches all eat shit and die.

If you don't model your idiot pub selves, after Trakar, try the Koch Bros., skeptic site, first:

Koch's Muller: Research Excellent, Global Warming Real: Exxon BLEW 30 Years of Shareholder MONEY on PROPAGANDA : progressive

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Climate study, funded in part by conservative group, confirms global warming - CSMonitor.com

A new climate study shows that since the mid-1950s, global average temperatures over land have risen by 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.6 degrees Fahrenheit), confirming previous studies that have found a climate that has been warming – in fits and starts – since around 1900.

Hey, global warming skeptics, take your heads out of the sand.

Most climate scientists attribute warming since the mid-1950, at least to some degree, to carbon dioxide emissions from human activities – burning coal, oil, and to a lesser extent gas, and from land-use changes.

The latest results mirror those from earlier, independent studies by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research in Britain, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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The Koch Bros. have gotten a bad rap, from OWS and Democrat geeks, but they have also funded efforts, to end the drug war, and the more I find out about them, to hell with it, let them do what they want, and fuck the rats and OWS, for being oppositional, without some strategy.

 

[bobgnote]

Bridging the greenhouse-gas emissions gap : Nature Climate Change : Nature Publishing Group

The international climate negotiations in Durban in December 2011 showed that there has been progress in several areas, but not on the ambition level of emission reductions by 2020. An important achievement was the agreement on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action. A new ad hoc working group4 will work to agree by 2015 at the latest on “a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force to come into effect and be implemented from 2020”. Given the dynamics of the international climate negotiations in the past ten years, it is our assessment that it is unlikely that countries will raise their ambition for the period before 2020 without any positive external input. The Durban decisions alone essentially postpone a discussion on ambition. This means that at the most only half of the 12 Gt gap is covered by the action of national governments under the UNFCCC, although a greater emission-reduction potential is available. Sector-by-sector analysis1 shows that the emission-reduction potential is 17±3 Gt CO2e by 2020.

The basis of the wedging-the-gap approach is to combine 21 coherent major global initiatives that involve a variety of actors, for example, major cities, large companies and individual citizens (Fig. 1). For each of the initiatives the following requirements hold: (1) there is a concrete starting position from which a significant up-scaling until the year 2020 is possible; (2) there are significant additional benefits next to a reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions; (3) there is an organization (or a combination of organizations) that can lead the global initiative; and (4) the initiative has the potential to reach an emission reduction in the order of 0.5 Gt CO2e by 2020. The effects of the initiatives and other government actions will overlap, so the total effect will be smaller than the sum. Regarding requirements (2) and (3), the key is that actors in the initiative are driven by self-interest or internal motivation, not by external pressure — a green-growth approach to global action on climate change.

Wedging the gap. : Bridging the greenhouse-gas emissions gap : Nature Climate Change : Nature Publishing Group

(sse graphs, at site)

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I still don't see proposals, for development of cellulosic alcohol and other products, from hemp and switchgrass, in all this gobbledegook.