2016 Climate Scientist Sea Level 
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Sea levels are rising, and science shows they will continue to rise for generations due to heat-trapping emissions that have already been released. This highlights a profound and enduring climate injustice: future generations will face the consequences of todays decisions. What do we know about future sea level rise?
Real Climate
AUGUST 9, 2021
As climate scientists we tend to look at the IPCC reports a little differently than the general public might. Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) Figure SPM 8. 1, SPM, AR5.
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Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
See for instance Benestad (2016). A common strawman argument We don’t expect to discern a clear effect of greenhouse gases on local measurements, and mixing up local and global climate is a basis for a common strawman argument. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.
Real Climate
AUGUST 12, 2021
I think in hindsight that my concerns from 2013 to some extent were supported by the fact that the IPCC organised an Expert Meeting on Communication, Oslo, Norway, 9–10 February 2016. Climate scientists are convinced that the world oceans have warmed down to a depth of 700 m since the 1970s because of our past emissions of greenhouse gases.
A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Millions of children worldwide are at risk from the devastating floods which have impacted almost every corner of the Earth this year, and which climate scientists say have intensified and are happening much more frequently due to climate change. Photo credit: UNICEF / UN0580114 / Ramasomanana. By Anders Lorenzen.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit. Superior Court dismissed counterclaims brought by an individual writer against the climate scientist Michael Mann in Mann’s defamation lawsuit against National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and two individuals. California v.
Law Columbia
JUNE 6, 2023
However, detection and attribution methods can also be used to quantify the relationship between a specific GHG contribution and specific consequences of climate change, such as temperature and sea level rise. square meters of September sea-ice. 2016) ; Derocher et al. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al.
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