But again the «models» estimate includes
an observed ice sheet mass loss term of 0.41 mm / year whereas ice sheet models give a mass gain of 0.1 mm / year for this period; considering this, observed rise is again 50 % faster than the best model estimate for this period.
This is despite using
observed ice sheet mass loss (0.19 mm / year) in the «modelled» number in this comparison, otherwise the discrepancy would be even larger — the ice sheet models predict that the ice sheets gain mass due to global warming.
Not exact matches
Under all RCP scenarios the rate of sea level rise will very likely exceed that
observed during 1971 — 2010 due to increased ocean warming and increased loss of
mass from glaciers and
ice sheets.
«It is very likely that the rate of global mean sea level rise during the 21st century will exceed the rate
observed during 1971 — 2010 for all Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios due to increases in ocean warming and loss of
mass from glaciers and
ice sheets.
Although the satellites are considered the gold - standard for measuring and
observing sea levels, hurricanes / typhoons, ozone holes, sea
ice, atmospheric CO2 distribution, polar
ice sheet masses and etc., the same 24/7 technology used to measure temperatures across the entire habitable world is now being ignored (i.e., denied) due to the above inconvenient evidence.
In contrast to the lack of
observed acceleration in the ocean thermal expansion, there has been a significant acceleration in the
mass contributions, dominated by the increased GIS [Greenland
ice sheet]
mass loss.»
«The
observed changes in sea
ice on the Arctic Ocean, in the
mass of the Greenland
ice sheet and Arctic
ice caps and glaciers over the past 10 years are dramatic and represent an obvious departure from long - term patterns,» says the report.
Second, and less important but still rather spectacular, was the melting of virtually every square inch of the surface of this
ice sheet over a short period of a few days during the hottest part of the summer, a phenomenon
observed every few hundred years but nevertheless an ominous event considering that it happened just as the aforementioned record
ice mass loss was being
observed and measured.