Sea levels rise by 'unexpected' amount in 2024: NASA

[Captain Caveman]

Sea levels rise by 'unexpected' amount in 2024: NASA

Global sea levels rose more than expected in 2024, Earth's hottest year on record, according to an analysis released Thursday by the US space agency NASA.

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On its website, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration explained that last year's increase "was due to an unusual amount of ocean warming, combined with meltwater from land-based ice such as glaciers."

According to the analysis led by NASA, which monitors rising water levels using satellite imagery, the world's seas rose by 0.23 inches (0.59 centimeters) in 2024, well above the 0.17 inches (0.43 cm) predicted by scientists.

"Every year is a little bit different, but what's clear is that the ocean continues to rise, and the rate of rise is getting faster and faster," said researcher Josh Willis of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Rising sea levels are among the consequences of human-induced climate change, and oceans have risen in line with the increase in the Earth's average surface temperature -- a change which itself is caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

So, a rounding error that's inconsequential.

But that doesn't matter; Its definitely my fault and I should spend my life paying higher taxes and eschewing the western standard of living to combat that canard.

If you live near the ocean just look at the ramps and pilings that have been in the same place for 75 years or more....Still there with the rise and fall of the tides as usual.

I've been propping my fishing pole on the same piling on the outer banks for 40+ years and it's not underwater yet.

Hopefully Trump gets shed of the CC weenies at NASA like he did NOAA.

Scientists aren't very bright. When the earth is coming out of an ice age, the ice gets less, the sea gets higher, and the temperature increases. Even my dog knows that.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Oh, just had a thought for any scientists watching. When the earth starts to go into an ice age, more ice appears, sea levels drop, and the temperature gets colder. Hopefully that will save you some time trying to figure out what happens.

 

[Redfish]

Sea levels rise by 'unexpected' amount in 2024: NASA

Global sea levels rose more than expected in 2024, Earth's hottest year on record, according to an analysis released Thursday by the US space agency NASA.

www.france24.com

On its website, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration explained that last year's increase "was due to an unusual amount of ocean warming, combined with meltwater from land-based ice such as glaciers."

According to the analysis led by NASA, which monitors rising water levels using satellite imagery, the world's seas rose by 0.23 inches (0.59 centimeters) in 2024, well above the 0.17 inches (0.43 cm) predicted by scientists.

"Every year is a little bit different, but what's clear is that the ocean continues to rise, and the rate of rise is getting faster and faster," said researcher Josh Willis of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Rising sea levels are among the consequences of human-induced climate change, and oceans have risen in line with the increase in the Earth's average surface temperature -- a change which itself is caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

So, a rounding error that's inconsequential.

But that doesn't matter; Its definitely my fault and I should spend my life paying higher taxes and eschewing the western standard of living to combat that canard.

If you live near the ocean just look at the ramps and pilings that have been in the same place for 75 years or more....Still there with the rise and fall of the tides as usual.

I've been propping my fishing pole on the same piling on the outer banks for 40+ years and it's not underwater yet.

Hopefully Trump gets shed of the CC weenies at NASA like he did NOAA.

and at the same time Antarctica has more ice than ever before. The climate hoax lives on in the small minds of libtardia.

 

[skookerasbil]

Nobody cares about the 3mm....

 

[Woodznutz]

The ocean is only a small part of that transition ... the atmosphere moves far and away the larger portion of the energy ... how does the ocean melt ice caps or mountain glaciers? ... if not warming the air first ...

And atmospheric pollutants makes it better at transferring heat.

 

[westwall]

The ocean is only a small part of that transition ... the atmosphere moves far and away the larger portion of the energy ... how does the ocean melt ice caps or mountain glaciers? ... if not warming the air first ...

The oceans STORE the energy.

 

[ReinyDays]

And atmospheric pollutants makes it better at transferring heat.

Not enough mass ... water vapor is the main component of convention ...

 

[ReinyDays]

The oceans STORE the energy.

Not without additional forces to keep it there ... otherwise the oceans will reject that energy mostly by re-radiating the energy back out OR evaporating water and convecting the energy away ... much much less is conducted down the water column ... that's the three fundamental ways energy can move ...

Consider the 600 nm photon smacking and getting absorbed by a water molecule on the sea surface ... now this one molecule is 2 eV hotter than all the rest ... that can't stand ... that one molecule has to shed 2 eV of energy in order to be in thermal equilibrium with the rest ... it can't "store" that energy ...

2LoT doesn't allow a build up of energy in surface water ... the solar energy must flow away and almost all of it into the atmosphere ... how fast this energy travels through the atmosphere is what determines the equilibrium temperature of the ocean/atmosphere system ...

We usually view the ocean as a Great Moderator of temperature ... the atmosphere cannot warm without the oceans also warming ... and oceans can't warm without warming the atmosphere ... they both strive at all times for thermal equilibrium ... again, assuming no other forces (or torques) are at play here ...

 

[westwall]

Not without additional forces to keep it there ... otherwise the oceans will reject that energy mostly by re-radiating the energy back out OR evaporating water and convecting the energy away ... much much less is conducted down the water column ... that's the three fundamental ways energy can move ...

Consider the 600 nm photon smacking and getting absorbed by a water molecule on the sea surface ... now this one molecule is 2 eV hotter than all the rest ... that can't stand ... that one molecule has to shed 2 eV of energy in order to be in thermal equilibrium with the rest ... it can't "store" that energy ...

2LoT doesn't allow a build up of energy in surface water ... the solar energy must flow away and almost all of it into the atmosphere ... how fast this energy travels through the atmosphere is what determines the equilibrium temperature of the ocean/atmosphere system ...

We usually view the ocean as a Great Moderator of temperature ... the atmosphere cannot warm without the oceans also warming ... and oceans can't warm without warming the atmosphere ... they both strive at all times for thermal equilibrium ... again, assuming no other forces (or torques) are at play here ...

Incorrect. The oceans are the largest storage system for solar energy. They have been absorbing that energy from the beginning of the oceans themselves.

 

[Sunsettommy]

Incorrect. The oceans are the largest storage system for solar energy. They have been absorbing that energy from the beginning of the oceans themselves.

He doesn't seem to realize the difference between a GAS (CO2) and LIQUID (Water) as one can't store anything while the other can hang onto to it for a time before it is released at the surface and through a few hundred feet of water as the sun radiation shines deeply into it to in contrast to a CO2 with a very small surface area and in trace amounts has little interaction as most of the IR bandwidth is OUTSIDE of the CO2 absorption area thus absorbs only a tiny fraction of incoming and outgoing IR while Water absorbs in much larger section of the solar spectrum not just IR.

 

[westwall]

He doesn't seem to realize the difference between a GAS (CO2) and LIQUID (Water) as one can't store anything while the other can hang onto to it for a time before it is released at the surface and through a few hundred feet of water as the sun radiation shines deeply into it to in contrast to a CO2 with a very small surface area and in trace amounts has little interaction as most of the IR bandwidth is OUTSIDE of the CO2 absorption area thus absorbs only a tiny fraction of incoming and outgoing IR while Water absorbs in much larger section of the solar spectrum not just IR.

Yes, it seems that way.

 

[jc456]

Scientists aren't very bright. When the earth is coming out of an ice age, the ice gets less, the sea gets higher, and the temperature increases. Even my dog knows that.

Except that isn’t happening. Arctic is already included in sea level and Antarctica is gaining ice, so not melting.