ben, I would very much like sea levels to be stable rather than rising. Unfortunately, wanting won't make it happen and I am old enough to recognise that reality is better faced than avoided.
For you ben and for anyone else interested in the evidence for AGW, here are 10 indicators Of AGWas published in SkepticalScience.com
One Land surface air temperature as measured by weather stations. You know all those skeptic arguments about how the temperature record is biased by the urban heat island effect, badly-sited weather stations, dropped stations, and so on? This is the only indicator which suffers from all those problems. So if you’re arguing with somebody who tries to frame the discussion as being about land surface air temperature, just remind them about the other nine indicators. Two Sea surface temperature. As with land temperatures, the longest record goes back to 1850 and the last decade is warmest. Three Air temperature over the oceans. Four Lower troposphere temperature as measured by satellites for around 50 years. By any of these measures, the 2000s was the warmest decade and each of the last three decades has been much warmer than the previous one. Five Ocean heat content, for which records go back over half a century. More than 90% of the extra heat from global warming is going into the oceans – contributing to a rise in… Six Sea level. Tide gauge records go back to 1870, and sea level has risen at an accelerating rate. Seven Specific humidity, which has risen in tandem with temperatures. Eight Glaciers. 2009 was the 19th consecutive year in which there was a net loss of ice from glaciers worldwide. Nine Northern Hemisphere snow cover, which has also decreased in recent decades. Ten Perhaps the most dramatic change of all has been in Arctic sea ice. Satellite measurements are available back to 1979 and reliable shipping records back to 1953. September sea ice extent has shrunk by 35% since 1979.
