Have you ever had some good friends, a couple, and things just fell so far apart that one quit even pretending to be faithful to the other? They just provided lip service….. but neither party even cared about the pretense anymore. It’s a sad thing to watch, and until the finality of the split, it just gets sadder.
In many ways, that’s how climate science and the public is. We’ve known that she’s been a lying, cheating, unfaithful partner for some time, and she’s known that we know for some time. Now, she’s just given up pretending any more. It’s a quasi-form of honestly, but she’s not going to try and pretend any longer.
About a couple of weeks ago, I did a post on our sea level satellites. And, I posted some some graphs generated by Avisio.
This is the one I posted showing Envisat……..
Other than the circle added, it looks exactly the same. The last entry is still 2012.029395.
But, our Jasons? They’re are going to town on these boys!!! Here’s Jason II from the previous post…..
Freakish, isn’t it? We’re well past the time that the sine wave start declining. Instead, it has taken an extra jump!!! But, that’s not anywhere near as freakish as Jason I……. here’s from the previous post….
Here’s today……..
I think it’s past time we kick her to the curb. She’s not even trying anymore.
Update: I’ve since endeavored to see if there was any update or information available stating the reasoning behind this ……… these adjustments. So far, no luck….. Jason-1 is a joint project between the NASA (United States) and CNES (France) space agencies. Jason I is part of JASL…… The Joint Archive for Sea Level (JASL) is a collaborative arrangement between the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), the World Data Center (WDC-SS) for Oceanography, Silver Spring, and the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center (UHSLC). Beginning in the Fall of 2000, the JASL is supported by the new NOAA National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC). The JASL is responsible for the collaborative archive referred to as the Research Quality Data Set.
So far….. nothing.
suyts space 
If I recall correctly, the Jasons include the Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) which boosts reported Sea-Level but doesn’t show up in actual Sea-Level. Supposedly ENVISAT reports satellite sensor to sea surface without GIA, so for actual “real life” trends, the ESA people are doing a better job.
GIA has some validity for oceanic volume, but is meaningless for Sea Level!!!
Tom, thanks for commenting!
I’m not sure I even agree with the volume posit…, but thank God there’s something to discuss other than Florida!!!
Unless we can show the earth is becoming less dense, then it’s a silly consideration. We all know the earth moves… some places up, others down. Just looking at the sat sea level graphs, we can determine they’re really not nearly as precise as they pretend to be.
You should click on the links in the post. Particularly this one…. http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/en/news/ocean-indicators/mean-sea-level/products-images/index.html
Here, you have 3 variants one of them being the GIA….. for all of the sats….. are the Jasons already factoring these in?
Thanks for the link, and yes, the Jasons do allow options (omit inverse barometer, omit seasonal signals, etc.) that are available from the UC website, but they leave the GIA in, and to their discredit, don’t graph a non GIA option.
There is also a neat TOPEX 320×240.mpeg available from a NASA webpage that is worth a look as it demonstrates the dynamics of the Sea-Level sensors. If you can’t find it, e-mail me at tom@colderside.com and I’ll attach it to a return e-mail – next week, as this weekend I’m up to my eyeballs in presentations.
Thanks Tom, I’ll look for it! Yeh, it’s a great link if you want to be perpetually frustrated by the data manipulations. It seems they are constantly mucking with one data set or another.
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