John Cook claims that sea level is going up 3.3 mm per year.
The most sophisticated Earth monitoring satellite, Envisat shows one tenth of that – at 0.33m mm/year, with sea level actually lower now than when it was launched.
http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/
This is comparable to what tide gauges show. That isn’t the data alarmists want to see, so they paint Envisat nearly invisible yellow and don’t normalise the Y-axis properly.
http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/
I corrected the graph in the animation below. This is how the graph should be presented. 3.3 mm/year? Complete nonsense.
http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/
If he’s referring to a longer term trend, he’d be close to correct. If he’s trying to say it is not falling now, he’d be a complete liar.
Even when taking the longer term trend it’s far from anything dramatic, and certainly doesn’t have any signal of human activity in it.
Yes, and that “longer term” , that one is pretty long.
It certainly is complete nonsense. One of the things that brings a chuckle out of me is the mashup of data. T/P has the sea level going from about +1 cm in 93 to +2.5 in 2006, but JasonI has 10.5 in 2002 to 12 cm today, JasonII has 19 in 2008 to 20 today, while Envisat has 48.25 in 2004 to 48.5 presently. Somehow the loons scramble these data sets all together and come up with their strange graphic and think its ok to do so.
Standards and practices, who needs them when you’re trying to convince people that we’re drowning?
Steve, I don’t think your characterization of “don’t normalise the Y-axis properly” is an adequate description of what’s been done. I would suggest something between your description and the word “fraud”, if not all the way to fraud.
According to Cook’s website (which I just spent a few minutes on for the first time) he claims all of his data comes from peer reviewed sources, and he further represents it’s infallibility versus the claims of skeptics and “deniers”. Surely he isn’t (they aren’t?) unintentionally offsetting the Envisat data to make it appear as though it supports the other data? Given the likelihood that it is intentional, I would go with “hide the lack of incline” at least.
By the way, has anybody estimated the amount of water that could be held in drought stricken Australia, versus the vast volumes coming from the rapidly accelerating ice melt in Greenland?
The Australians are using the area near Ayers Rock to dehydrate the water. They have found out how to remove all the water from the atmosphere and hide it for their own selfish purposes when the rest of the world runs out of water they will have an abundant supply of dehydrated water they can export at outlandish rates.
I figured out their game and have set up my own processing facility so I will be able to store mega tons of dehydrated water for use during the coming drought.
You too can get in on the ground floor of water dehydrating. Act now before they outlaw the practice!
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food/2003-06-01/Choosing-a-Food-Dehydrator.aspx
Thanks Steve for posting it. Envisat at least shows something that comes closer to the tide gauges. The defunct John Daly had some nice info on the sea level, even if several years old, still valid especially for the older satellites. He is proven right by Envisat:
http://www.john-daly.com/ges/msl-rept.htm
http://www.john-daly.com/altimetry/topex.htm