Search Results for: Sea level rise acceleration

Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part VII U.S. coastal impacts

by Judith Curry The final installment in the CE series on sea level rise.

Sea level rise acceleration (or not). Part V: detection & attribution

by Judith Curry In looking for causes, I have applied the ‘Sherlock Holmes procedure’ of eliminating one suspect after another. The procedure has left us without any good suspect. Thermal expansion was the candidate of choice at the time of … Continue reading

Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part VI. Projections for the 21st century

by Judith Curry The concern about sea level rise is driven primarily by projections of future sea level rise.

Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part IV – Satellite era record

by Judith Curry Part IV of the Climate Etc. series on sea level rise focuses on the satellite era (since 1993), including the recent causes of sea level variations and arguments regarding the acceleration (or not) of recent sea level … Continue reading

Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part I – Introduction

by Judith Curry Introduction and context for a new Climate Etc. series on sea level rise.

Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part III – 19th & 20th century observations

By Judith Curry “We are in the uncomfortable position of extrapolating into the next century without understanding the last.” – Walter Munk 

Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part II – The geological record

By Judith Curry Part II of the Climate Etc. series on sea level rise –the geological record provides context for the recent sea level rise.

Climate adaptation follies. Part II: scenarios of future sea level rise

by Judith Curry How did the state of New Jersey come to adopt sea level rise projections for their adaptation planning that are more than twice as high as the IPCC’s values?

The Sun-Climate Effect: The Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis (IV). The climate shift of 1997

by Javier Vinós & Andy May “These shifts are associated with significant changes in global temperature trend and in ENSO variability. The latest such event is known as the great climate shift of the 1970s.” Anastasios A. Tsonis, Kyle Swanson … Continue reading

Special Report on Sea Level Rise

by Judith Curry I have now completed my assessment of sea level rise and climate change.

Sea level rise: isostatic adjustment

by Judith Curry A discussion thread to ponder the uncertainties in glacial isostatic adjustment and the implications for past and future sea level rise.

Canceling the AMO

by Judith Curry Conclusion from Michael Mann’s new paper:  “We conclude that there is no compelling evidence for internal multidecadal oscillations in the climate system.”

Hothouse Earth

by Judith Curry We need to raise the bar on how we think about the possible worst case scenario for climate change.

Climate uncertainty monster: What’s the worst case?

by Judith Curry On possibilities, known neglecteds, and the vicious positive feedback loop between scientific assessment and policy making that has created a climate Frankenstein.

The toxic rhetoric of climate change

by Judith Curry “I genuinely have the fear that climate change is going to kill me and all my family, I’m not even kidding it’s  all I have thought about for the last 9 months every second of the day. … Continue reading

Sea level rise, acceleration and the closure problem

by Rud Istvan There is no doubt that interglacials change sea level (SL). And that sea level rise (SLR) can be dramatic on millennial interglacial time scales.

Madrid

by Judith Curry The UN Climate Change Conference this week in Madrid provides an important opportunity to reflect on state of the public debate surrounding climate change.

Hurricanes & climate change: recent U.S. landfalling hurricanes

by Judith Curry An assessment of whether any of the impacts of recent  U.S. landfalling hurricanes were exacerbated by global warming.

Sea level rise: what’s the worst case?

by Judith Curry Draft of article to be submitted for journal publication.

The blame game

by Judith Curry For the sake of argument, let’s accept the IPCC conclusions regarding attribution of global warming, and their 21st century projections.  So, exactly who in the U.S. bears the blame for current and future damages?

Nature Unbound VIII – Modern global warming

by Javier Summary: Modern Global Warming has been taking place for the past 300 years. It is the last of several multi-century warming periods that have happened during the Neoglacial cooling of the past 3000 years. Analysis of Holocene climate … Continue reading

The debate: my presentation

by Judith Curry My presentation  is provided here.  This is being posted at the start of the event.

Nature Unbound IX – 21st Century Climate Change

by Javier A conservative outlook on 21st century climate change

Will advances in groundwater science force a paradigm shift in sea level rise attribution?

by Jim Steele  A better accounting of natural groundwater discharge is needed to constrain the range of contributions to sea level rise. The greater the contribution from groundwater discharge, the smaller the adjustments used to amplify contributions from meltwater and … Continue reading

Beyond ENSO: new signals of seasonal to interannual predictability

by Judith Curry My new talk on improving seasonal to interannual climate predictions.