Sentences with phrase «global average sea level began»

But in mid-2010, scientists noticed a curious trend: For the first time in two decades, global average sea level began dropping.

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Global average sea levels have risen by around 3.2 mm per year since satellite measurements began in 1993, the report says, with sea levels around 67 mm higher in 2014 than they were in 1993.

I can't begin to imagine what a frank, honest, apolitical climate scientist or physicist would have to say about all the assumptions and statistical legerdemain that goes into coming up with such precise «measurements» of global average sea level.