I ain't no friggin denialist. I always go along with the majority. After all, that's how we advance science in our age. Every great scientific discovery has come from the angry mob. These guys kill anybody who thinks different.
This dramatic rise in 'sea level' comes from altimeters in satellites. They bounce off a radar image. At the coast, all they can see is the relative change of the sea level related to the local land. However, this is enough for nosa. They are calling this the global mean sea level, and it is rising dramatically at an ever increasing rate.
Good thing that everybody believes that this is caused by the melting of Greenland and Antarctica.
I would like to point out a tiny math error, which is really of no significance whatsoever, and should never be put out in the press. Should anybody do that, they would be shot.
Buried deep down in the darkest nosa basement is a term called 'absolute sea level' and it hasn't changed at all. In the old days of the Scientific Method, we just called this 'sea level'. Who would have thought that now we would have endless definitions.
So basically, nosa is taking the raw tide gauge data without any land corrections. All points on the coast are rising or falling in terms of the local sea level, except for the one point I found in Oregon. On the passive coasts of all our continents, the land is sinking about 10 times more than rising points. The land is only rising at volcanic points.
So this chart is wonderful in that it shows that most of the coast is sinking due to the cooling of tectonic plates. They are brilliant! Now, if all the ice was actually melting it may or may not raise the absolute sea level. Floating ice sheets don't do anything. And because the land rises or sinks depending on ice load, ice accumulation has to be really fast, or horrendous glacial melting to affect the sea level.
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