Yes kiddies, this is a new scare story. Be verry afraid. It's a whole millisecond per century, and since it is a bad thing, we know it's due to climate change.
If you look at percentage, it's so many zeros that you can't count them.
Soon, half the Earth will be in permanent darkness, and the other half is a fried desert. I read a sci-fi story about this and you can only live in the Twilight Zone.
We are now in a pattern shift for air and ocean current motions. This is the part of chaotic motion where everything is just jiggling.
The air over Canada is so dry and clear that I cannot see any disturbances from Arctic blobs.
The cold seems happy to stay in Canada for a while.
The air is just a swirly mess. Everybody says they are sick of the snow, - Ha.
ps the only thing fun in the world is the UK
ps I am confident of a general prediction of winter for March and April, with warmth starting middle to end of May. Then will have our 1 to 2 months of horrible, stagnant sticky summer, and snow starting again at Halloween. This is our standard 80's weather. Next year we might go below that, as all the charts plunge to unknowns with the coming of a Major Ice Cycle. Or not.
The warmies will have big parties during the summer, and may even fudge up El Nino.
ps I am getting the general idea from the Gulf of Maine temperatures.
ps the dog walk this morning was horrendous wind chill, and solid ice everywhere.
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Never has the 'Battle of Semantics' been more powerful than with sea level. We used to have 'absolute sea level' which was the level measured in respect to the centre of the Earth (as best they could). Then we had 'relative sea level' which was local sea level, which was up or down depending on tectonic or isostatic uplift. Darwin on his voyage with the Beagle, did a great job on this. Basically, that sea level goes up and down like a toilet seat.
Those of us looking at isostatic uplift always referred to absolute sea level, as just plain sea level. Over recorded history it has remained nearly constant. May have been a big disturbance during continental glaciation, but that is difficult to tell.
Just in the past few years, desperate nosa has gone full tilt with sea level meaning local or relative sea level, as measured by a tide gauge. This is totally useless for geophysics, because who knows what that means? They also take all the local measurements and average them for some reason. Meaningless.
We expect absolute sea level to rise, with rising ocean temperatures. That's basic physics - the expansion of water. The only tide gauge that shows this, is the one above.
This chart shows all the short cycle variation, since 1930. You can see the 1930 'Dust Bowl', and the huge drop for Hitler's invasion of Russia. The temperature likes to drop for huge invasions by dictators.
Had this chart gone back to 1600, we would see the 'Little Ice Age'. I would hate to see how low that would go. We might see it soon. Alas, we have no measurements for the rest of the world.
