The Question Is: How Much Acceleration Is Involved In SLR? - 12

Fig. 1 Shattered But Not Shuttered

A most natural magazine ebbs and flows like a king tide while articulating the obvious:

"Earth’s temperature has surged in the past two years, and climate scientists will soon announce that it hit a milestone in 2024: rising to more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. But is this sudden spike just a blip in the climate data, or an early indicator that the planet is heating up at a faster pace than researchers thought?"

(Nature: Is global warming speeding up?). This is where I usually respond with "Is the Pope Catholic?  (see Ups And Downs Of SLC).

And the question is:

"The question is not "is sea level rise accelerating?"

The consensus is that sea level rise (SLR) is accelerating.

The answer, then, is based on a three-fold spectrum: "how much was there in the past?", "how much is there now?", and "how much will there be in the future?"

Any historical or current data is ok to use to build upon, because we really need to use a known base from which to calculate prospective acceleration."

(The Question Is: How Much Acceleration Is Involved In SLR?, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) . Yes, how much acceleration is at the top of the question list.

The previous post in this series is here.