By contrast, the OHC and
sea level increased steadily during this period, providing clear and convincing evidence that global warming continued.
Not exact matches
«By refining the spatial pattern of mass loss in the world's second largest — and most unstable — ice sheet, and learning how that pattern has evolved, we are
steadily increasing our understanding of ice loss processes, which will lead to better - informed projections of
sea level rise.»
In fact, since then, greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise, and accordingly global average temperatures have
steadily increased, along with
sea levels.
Global
sea level rise has not been
steadily increasing: it has been accelerating.
Tamino doesn't want to admit that there's been no detectable acceleration in the global average rate of
sea -
level rise in response to ~ 2/3 century of
steadily increasing CO2 emissions and
levels, but that's what the data unambiguously shows.
Instead, total annual average ocean heat content has
increased steadily during the hiatus, at quite a confronting rate given that this metric is closely tied to global
sea -
level rise.
Heat - trapping greenhouse gases originating mainly from fossil fuel combustion are responsible for the
steadily rising global temperature, the melting of glaciers and ice caps, the expansion of the ocean and rise in
sea level, the
increase in droughts and subsequent problems of climate refugees, and the
increase in violent storms.