Detected as spamThanks, we'll work on getting this corrected.
The
globally averaged rate of coastal sea-level rise, which is also the
average rate at locations with no appreciable vertical land motion,is about 1½ mm/year.
That first web pageisn't
by scientists, it is by the JPL "Earth Science Communications Team."
They ought to be called the Climate Alarmism Propaganda Ministry. They
twist & cherry-pick evidence for their political agenda, and that
particular web page is very deceptive. The reason you think it shows
that"the current rate of sea level rise based on the tide gauge record is around 3mm/year"is
presumably that you didn't notice that the two very similar looking
graphs on that page are scaled differently. Although the JPL Climate
Alarmism Propaganda Ministry showed only one rate of sea-level rise
above the two graphs, the rate they show actually applies only to the
satellite altimetry graph. The other graph, of coastal measurements,
show only about have that rate.I wrote about that particular misleading web page in this article.
The second web pagesplices
together measurements from different locations for different time
periods, to make one graph. Since sea-level trends vary from one
location to another, if you measure them at different places, for
different time periods, you can easily create the illusion of either
acceleration or deceleration.
The
difference between those figures is negligible. The difference between
1.4 mm/year and 1.7 mm/year is just 1.2 inch per century.
Honolulu
has the best mid-Pacific sea-level measurement record, and it is not
affected by significant vertical land motion, nor by the gravity from
Greenland's ice sheet (whichThompson et alworried about):