Nah. Eat, drink and drive like hell, for tomorrow we die!Scumple wrote:Calibration errors are very common. Look at the price of oil and the stock market? No obvious connection but both appear way out of whack given the longer term trends. Even if the climate change lot are wrong, unlikely but there could be a drunk driver going the other way, even if they are wrong - might be good to preserve the remaining oil as long as possible? especially the light crude so crucial for aviation both civil and military?Seth wrote:I find it remarkable that the global warming "pause" is increasingly being attributed to "errors" in past data that have been "found" by Warmists all of a sudden.Scumple wrote:http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... VEZFI5ViE0
Apparent slowing of sea level rise is artefact of satellite data
A slowdown in rising sea levels recorded over the past decade is down to a measurement error. In fact, sea levels are rising more quickly than ever.
Over the past century, the sea level has risen by around 0.2 metres, and it has been rising faster and faster.
However, this trend got murky over the past decade, with satellite data suggesting that the sea level has risen slightly more slowly in the past decade than in the previous one.
That would be good news if true. Yet the result was odd because other studies showed that more water than ever was pouring into the oceans from melting glaciers and ice caps.
"It was a bit of puzzle," says Christopher Watson of the University of Tasmania in Hobart.
One possible explanation was that more water had been accumulating on land because of increased rainfall in some places. This can undoubtedly cause fluctuations in sea level; the intense flooding in Australia and elsewhere in 2011, for instance, caused a distinct dip.
Watson's team has now shown the rates have not actually slowed down but are, indeed, still accelerating. It found that the apparent slowdown was due to errors in satellite data, which have been used since 1993 to measure sea levels, in addition to tide gauges.
His team identified errors in the satellite record by, among other things, comparing the satellite data to a larger number of tide gauges than any previous analysis. Their analysis shows the apparent decline was due to calibration errors that meant the first satellite – Topex A, which operated from 1993 to 1999 – slightly overestimated sea levels. This masked the ongoing acceleration.
The results fit in much better both with measurements of ice loss and with projections of future sea level rises. "It is consistent with all the projections," Watson says.
(continued, airlines go bust and the skies clear and the ship sinks in less than fifty years....)
Nothing to see here, no conspiracy, move along....
I say we use it all up as quickly as possible...if we can...that way we'll be forced to find new energy sources.
