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Re: Sea level rise (off-topic)
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2006 Jul 8, 11:04 -0500
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2006 Jul 8, 11:04 -0500
Frank Reed wrote: >So far... and I emphasize that phrase >"SO FAR...", the evidence (tide gauge data), shows a linear increase in >sea level, which emphatically does not support the climate models. > > and in an earlier message: >This is consistent with "global warming" but >inconsistent with man-made global warming, which should show significant non-linearity >in the past 150 years. CO2-generation by industry has been increasing >geometrically along with global GDP. Sea level rise is linear. > > Frank, can you tell us what kind of dependency between the GDP (or man-made CO2 emission) and sea level rise the models predict? Or what you expect? Without knowing this, an argument for or against a correlation cannot be built either way. What if it turns out that the dependency should be exactly logarithmic? And, do we have any pre-industrial data for comparison? Herbert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
