Thomas Wysmuller
NASA TRCS Climate Group, USA
Title: The problematic relationship between atmospheric temperature, weather events, sea-level rise, and CO2, & Eclipse 21 – 8 - 2017
Biography
Biography: Thomas Wysmuller
Abstract
CO2 and sea-levels have tracked consistently for the past 5,000 years, with sea-levels exhibiting a slight but consistent linear rise. During the same period, atmospheric temperatures stayed within a ±2C zone, but ranged up and down with wide swings. Recent examples include the +0.6C Medieval Warm period (500-1100AD), and the -0.6C Little Ice Age (1200-1800AD). At the same time, CO2 has been remarkably linear at 280 ppm, except for a spectacular 43% rise to 400ppm that began in the mid 1800s.
Local sea-level effects are dominated by tectonic influences, with uplift and subsidence factors the major long-term drivers; tides and ocean currents have the short-term effects. Tide Gauges have been reliable, but averaging them worldwide leads to bias, as many more are located in areas of subsidence than uplift. Renowned sea-level experts have made this abundantly clear [1,2].
Satellites measuring sea-level have not performed as promised; resolution insufficiency and orbital tracking errors compelled adjustments, skewing mostly linear readings in an upward direction that taxed credibility. [3]. No recent projection (IPCC4, NOAA5, USNCA6) appears to have any chance of accuracy.
The most recent upward spike (38%) in CO2 from 280ppm in 1880 to 400ppm at present (2016), has not had a validated measurable influence on Sea-Level Rise by any metric available, and provided a very uncomfortable inconvenience at last year’s Paris COP21 Climate talks. It was this factor, more than any other, that led to provisions in the Paris Accord allowing nations to exit at will, without consequence. [7].