eustatic

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Of more importance than this quibbling, is the rapid loss of arctic sea ice, and breakup of various parts in Antarctica (Larson B, and now Wilkins) and as for sea-level contributing ice, the potential implications for eustatic sea level rise which may be greater than AR4 estimates, see

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  • My point in bringing this up is that 99. 99\%+ of the eustatic sea level changes have occurred prior to mans existance. —  RealClimate
  • After correcting for thermosteric sea level trends, residual (observed minus thermosteric) trends have an average value of 1.4 ± 0.5 mm / year, which should have an eustatic —  RealClimate
  • Of more importance than this quibbling, is the rapid loss of arctic sea ice, and breakup of various parts in Antarctica (Larson B, and now Wilkins) and as for sea-level contributing ice, the potential implications for eustatic sea level rise which may be greater than AR4 estimates, see —  RealClimate
  • There are plenty of other metrics (instrumental record, glacier mass balance, etc) that demonstrate the globe is warming, and any causal agent which results in ice melt (which we know is happening) or thermal expansion should theoretically result in eustatic sea level rise. —  RealClimate
  • Nature 428, 406-408.] which suggests that a dominant eustatic contribution is needed to explain the rate of sea level rise of the last decades observed by tide gauges, and shows that Cabanes et al. (2001) [Cabanes, C., —  RealClimate
 

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  1. Greek εὔ, well, + στατός, from ἴστασ, σ1θαι, stand.
 

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