Record Temperatures

[Pemalite]

ArnoldRimmer said:

Pemalite said:

The evidence is undeniable at this point.

Since 1880 sea levels have increased by 240mm~ with an average rate of around 3.3mm per year.

Your maths teacher from primary school is not amused.

Context. Obviously the rate of sea-level rise in past decades isn't going to be the same as today's. But nice try.

ArnoldRimmer said:

He didn't misquote sciencedirect, the sentence that he quoted was indeed a 1:1 quote from the sciencedirect link that he posted. But his quote is a nice example how a quote taken out of context can give an impression that is almost the exact opposite of what the quoted source actually states.

He misquoted by not including the entire thing. Sure, I could have worded it differently, but my intentions were understood.

It's actually what the "fake news" tries to do, just picks a quote from a story and runs with it.

ArnoldRimmer said:

On the other hand, what you've written about that sciencedirect link is not just misleading, but wrong. The short abstract available under that sciencedirect link does not state that sea levels have risen instead of falling. Basically, it just states that after some team of scientists found that sea levels in the maldives have fallen about 30cm in the decades before 2000, another team of scientists came to at least slightly different conclusions, that the fall in sea levels at least wasn't as high as 30cm, and that they believe rise in sea levels in the maldives in the future to be the most reliable scenario.

numberwang probably simply copy-pasted that quote and the link from somewhere else without even reading it. Apparently, you didn't read it either, at least not carefully. numberwang probably didn't intentionally give a false impression - he could have just linked to this scientific paper instead as "proof":

https://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/MornerEtAl2004.pdf

I did read it. I wasn't basing my post on what Sciencedirect posted, I am basing my information on NASA's datasets.

Sciencedirect found no link to confirm or deny any changes in sea-level, but that is just one study.

ArnoldRimmer said:

Some scientists wrote a paper that came to this conclusion, other scientists wrote another paper that came to another conclusion, and ultimately neither of these papers is ultimate proof of anything. When it comes to the maldives, we just know for sure that those politicians and scientists who a few decades ago warned that they would be sunk by 2020 were utterly wrong. I still remember fearing the Maldives would already be sunk by the time I was finally able to visit them when I was a kid in the 80s.

That is because the Maldives have employed a heap of methods to combat the rising sea levels.
The Maldive capital Male' for example has built a giant sea-wall around the city.

If the media were proclaiming the end of the world in the 80's, that's on the media, not science.