@ClimateOfGavin@Theranello@EytanPs89@NASAClimate 1/40> Gavin wrote, "The floating ice melting *doesn’t* set up barotropic surface gravity waves which would transmit eustatic sea level changes very rapidly across the ocean"
Thanks for acknowledging it. Too many people never admit their errors. I'm glad you aren't one of them.
Do not mistake how it is ESTIMATED for how it's DEFINED. "Global" also means "not merely local," and steric changes in the upper layer of the ocean are merely local.
That's unconventional. Conventionally, floating ice is considered to be PART OF the ocean (though the top surface of the ice isn't usually considered local sea-level).
That's why scientists call periods of warmest climate "climate optimums." That includes periods much warmer than now, like the peak of the Eemian Interglacial Climate Optimum.
If you look down at the Earth with a spectrometer in orbit, the emission strengths you see correspond to S-B emissions at the temperatures at the wavelengths' emission heights. sealevel.info/learnmore.html…
"Contrary to the earlier reports that 50-60% of the coral on these reefs would die off, it has been discovered that this figure is actually less than 5%… 'The discrepancy is phenomenal… Everywhere we went we found healthy reefs…'"