Inconvenient: NASA shows global sea level…pausing, instead of rising
Posted: October 17, 2017 Filed under: Climate science, Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, NASA, Sea Level Rise | Tags: "The Pause", Climate Change, Climate science, El Nino, Global Warming, Global Warming "Pause", Global Warming Hiatus, nasa, sea level rise, warming pause Leave a comment
This is interesting. It appears that a “pause” has developed in global sea levels. For two years, since July 2015, there has been no sustained increase in global sea level, in fact, it appears to have actually fallen a bit. This graph, provided by NASA’s Global Climate Change website, tells the story:
A zoom of the area of interest, two years prior to the most recent data point.
Source for both graphs: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/
The satellite derived sea level data is also available here: ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/merged_alt/L2/TP_J1_OSTM/global_mean_sea_level/GMSL_TPJAOS_V4_199209_201708.txt
NASA says on that website:
Sea level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the added water from melting ice sheets and glaciers and the expansion of sea water as it warms. The first graph tracks the change in sea level since 1993 as observed by satellites.
Hmmm, I think they left something out of that description.
The other source for sea…
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