Sentences with phrase «global average sea level measurements»

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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.

The evidence comes from direct measurements of rising surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures and, indirectly, from increases in average global sea levels, retreating glaciers, and changes in many physical and biological systems.

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.

Since 1992, global mean sea level can be computed at 10 - day intervals by averaging the altimetric measurements from the TOPEX / Poseidon (T / P) and Jason satellites over the area of coverage (66 ° S to 66 ° N)(Nerem and Mitchum, 2001).