NASA’s Earth Minute: Sea Level Rise

For over 20 years NASA has been tracking the global surface topography of the ocean in order to understand the important role it plays in our daily lives. Climate change is causing our ocean to warm and glaciers to melt, resulting in sea level rise. Since 1880, the global sea level has risen 8 inches; by 2100, it is projected to rise another 1 to 4 feet.

:::LEARN MORE:::
Key Indicators: Sea Level
http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicator…
National Climate Assessment: Sea Level Rise
http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/repor…
Rising Seas Briefing (recorded audio)
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/71763595
Sea Level Rise: Global Warming’s Yardstick
http://climate.nasa.gov/news/2201/
West Antarctic Glacier Loss Appears Unstoppable
http://climate.nasa.gov/news/1088/
Quiz: Sea Level Rise
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/Sea…
What Will Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Mean for Barrier Islands?
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/feat…
Hangout: Sea Level Rise (recorded)
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blog…

:::NASA MISSIONS & RESEARCH:::
Jason-3
https://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/mission…
OSTM/Jason-2
http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/missions…
GRACE
http://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/
Operation IceBridge
http://icebridge.gsfc.nasa.gov/

:::FOR EDUCATORS:::
NASA Wavelength
http://nasawavelength.org/resource-se…
Ocean Surface Topography Missions Educational Resources
https://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/education/

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Tide gauges don't show this supposed increase in the rate of sea level rise.
For example NEW YORK: http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/rlr.monthly.plots/12_high.png shows that the rate in rise hasn't changed significantly in over a century. No apparent effect from CO2 emissions. So inches rather than feet is what we can reasonably expect.

Might want to give some royalties to AsapScience

Nice little video to explain the situation for the absolute laymen.

Wonderfull!!

Human overpopulation.

As always, another misrepresentation of the data by MinuteEarth. Earth spends over 95% of it's time outside of ice ages, that means no glaciers on Earth, no Greenland ice sheet and no Antarctic ice sheet. That is normal. Our current ice age is in an interglacial warm period, that means conditions are approaching normal Earth conditions. The glaciers must grow or melt, there IS NO SAVING them as they are not normal to Earth. Our interglacial has already melted most of the ice. This video is just more climate ignorance.