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Okay, so the graphic supposedly covers about 16 years and the darkest red areas are sporting a centimeter per year rise so they should have risen about six (6) full inches in that time. Kinda' seems like you'd hear news stories about islands flooding, doesn't it?Warm water is less dense and will literally push up further than colder water due to gravity. Gravity doesn't cause the surface of all oceanic waters to assume an absolute level with respect to earth's radius, you know. There are even spots on the planet where there are dips in the level of the ocean due to underwater mountains:http://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_grav/explore_grav.htmlIt might be very interesting to learn exactly how the satellites measure the sea level to that degree of accuracy especially if, like the Hubble, they'd failed to take into consideration how the consequence of a standing column of warmer air might skew the results.
Okay, so the graphic supposedly covers about 16 years and the darkest red areas are sporting a centimeter per year rise so they should have risen about six (6) full inches in that time. Kinda' seems like you'd hear news stories about islands flooding, doesn't it?
Warm water is less dense and will literally push up further than colder water due to gravity. Gravity doesn't cause the surface of all oceanic waters to assume an absolute level with respect to earth's radius, you know. There are even spots on the planet where there are dips in the level of the ocean due to underwater mountains:
http://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_grav/explore_grav.html
It might be very interesting to learn exactly how the satellites measure the sea level to that degree of accuracy especially if, like the Hubble, they'd failed to take into consideration how the consequence of a standing column of warmer air might skew the results.
