Guest posts by Willis Eschenbach
Those who have read my work may recall my post entitled “Munging sea level data“. In it, I showed that the apparent sea-level acceleration of the satellite is just an artifact of the combination of the four satellite records, i.e.:
Original Note: NOAA’s sea level data, showing the trend of each individual full satellite record and the overall trend. SOURCE: NOAA Excel Spreadsheet
Despite the obvious difference between the first and last halves of the record, the scientists just pieced them together and obscured the junction. My conclusion in that article is:
There was no evidence of any increase in sea level rise in tide gauges or sketchy paired satellite records.
So today I came across an article in Nature titled Acceleration rate modified from global mean sea level record derived from altimeter. Interested to guess what the paper says?
You then. You’re right. They concluded that after looking closely at the satellite records, the problem was a discrepancy between the satellites… and when they applied their editing methods to the TOPEX satellite records, they found:
Based on four different weighting methods used in the tidal gauge comparison, it was determined that TOPEX was drifting and not ERS. Therefore, we recommend calibrating the TOPEX GMSL record with an ERS1&2 crossover after removing cal-1. The calibration reduces the acceleration observed in the GMSL, so that it becomes statistically equivalent to 0 at the 95% confidence level.
The acceleration observed in the satellite-observed GMSL (mean global sea level) is “statistically equivalent to zero”… see figure.
[UPDATE] A wary commenter pointed out what I’d missed, that the post wasn’t new. Only last week’s media article describing their work was new – their research was published before mine. Mea maxima culpa. However, my work uses a completely different method, but comes to the same conclusion—best science.]
Here, where I live on the northern coast of California, we are receiving the blessing of an “atmospheric river,” which is a phenomenon of high moisture content from the tropics to the west coast in a narrow strip. . It used to be called “Pineapple Express”, but I assume it was identified as racist with pineapple or something…
With the last few years of drought, this is all the more welcome. We had 3-1/2 inches (9 cm) of rain yesterday, more expected tonight.
So wet blessings to all.
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