Wednesday, September 29, 2021

The mean sea level continues to rise

 From a tweet by Zack Labe

Global mean sea level (MSL) continues to ----> rise Water wave The latest satellite altimetry data has now been processed through mid-2021: sealevel.colorado.edu

Note how the sea level isn't just rising―the rate at which it is rising is accelerating, by roughly 0.1 mm a year.  To put it another way, in six years, the rate at which the sea level rises will have increased to 4 mm a year.   In 16 years, to 5 mm a year.  And that's assuming some major Antarctic ice shelves don't exponentially accelerate their melting, which recent research suggests is exactly what's happening.




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