Category Archives: Sea Level

Mainstream Media Ignores New Study: Present Sea Surface Temperatures “Indistinguishable” From Those During Last Interglacial…

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Bob Tisdale

…When Sea Levels Were Roughly 20 to 30 Feet Higher than Today Science recently published Hoffman, et al. (2017) Regional and global sea-surface temperatures during the last interglaciation.  Not too surprisingly, the study has been ignored by the mainstream media.  … Continue reading →

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The Region of Unusual Sea Level Rise East of the Philippines Contributes Only a Little to the Global Rate

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

The region east of the Philippines stands out on satellite-based sea level trend maps.  See Figure 1, which is from the Map of Sea Level Trends webpage from the University of Colorado Sea Level Research Group.  I’ve also shown the … Continue reading →

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Interesting Paper on Sea Level Rise – Purkey et al (2014)

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

Please see the Update at the end of the post to avoid confusion. # # # # The paper Purkey et al. (2014) Relative contributions of ocean mass and deep steric changes to sea level rise between 1993 and 2013 … Continue reading →

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Maybe It’s Time We Stopped Wasting Money Studying a Problem And Spent That Money Adapting to It

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

The Washington Post published an article today titled When sea levels rise, high tides will spill into communities far more often, study says. What a revelation!  It’s almost as foolish as the studies that cost taxpayers tens of thousands of … Continue reading →

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Part 2 of “On Sallenger et al (2012) – Hotspot of Accelerated Sea Level Rise on the Atlantic Coast of North America”

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE (July 3, 2012): I’ve provided this update on both of my Sallenger et al (2012) posts. Tamino (Grant Foster) has once again written a misleading rebuttal, this time to my two posts about Sallenger et al (2012). Refer to … Continue reading →

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On Sallenger et al (2012) – Hotspot of Accelerated Sea Level Rise on the Atlantic Coast of North America

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE (July 3, 2012): I’ve provided this update on both of my Sallenger et al (2012) posts. Tamino (Grant Foster) has once again written a misleading rebuttal, this time to my two posts about Sallenger et al (2012). Refer to … Continue reading →

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1ST Quarter 2011 Sea Level Anomaly Update And An Initial Look At The Impacts Of ENSO On Global Sea Level

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Bob Tisdale

It’s been more than two years since my last Sea Level anomaly update using the data from the University of Colorado Sea Level Research Group . I visit their website regularly, but each update seems to be an extension of … Continue reading →

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NEW NODC DATASET: THERMOSTERIC SEA LEVEL ANOMALIES

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Bob Tisdale

Just a quick one-graph post. The NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) has added Thermosteric Sea Level Anomaly data to its GLOBAL OCEAN HEAT CONTENT webpage. The NODC describes the data as, “The time series of yearly and 3-month thermosteric … Continue reading →

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>Request for Assistance In Assessing an Important Sea Level Study

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Bob Tisdale

>Guest Post by John Droz, Jr. Friends: I am asking for help from oceanographers and/or others who have experience with sea level measurements. I am a physicist (energy expert) who has been involved with several environmental issues over the last … Continue reading →

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>Supplement To ENSO Is A Major Component Of Sea Level Rise

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>In my post ENSO Is A Major Component Of Sea Level Rise, I illustrated that ENSO is the cause of the pattern of Sea Level Trends illustrated in Figure 1. The IPCC confirms this in their discussion of regional variations … Continue reading →

Posted in El Nino-La Nina Processes, Sea Level | 6 Comments