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This article supports your claim (pdf): Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/9

This article supports your claim (pdf): Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/9/2022.full.pdf https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/9/2022.full.pdf I think that fitting a quadratic to such a short run of data is premature, and that extrapolating that same acceleration for 80 years is tendentious. However, the paper is otherwise interesting, and I hope they do an update in ten years and include their previous prediction :-)

martinpw 8y ago
Yes, that's the article I was thinking of, good find! Agreed the extrapolation is debatable. What is most astounding to me is that they are able to measure not just an increase of 3mm a year in sea levels by satellite, but that the data are precise enough that they can determine the change in this rate. The precision of the instrumentation and processing required to measure to that level of precision is astounding.