Well I live off grid and mostly work from home. My carbon footprint is sustainable. Most in the first world can’t say the same, but I wouldn’t ask most individuals to change because all they’re doing is buying what’s being sold. Change from the top is needed, but that’ll only happen when it becomes less profitable to be wasteful than to be sustainable.
Two way street. THings are bought which are on offer. Things are on offer because they are bought.
Sold!
Just curious, how can "sustainability" be defined or determined? CO2 has a negligible impact on planetary temperature to start with, so all this "footprint" measuring sounds scientific but it's all only so much BS. But maybe that's the point of it all, who knows?
For me that's the bottom line of this mess we created...and still are creating.
Exactly what’s funny about this question? Those of you insisting that you possess the science that tells you exactly how and why the world is warming should be able to answer this question. Some amount of the earth’s interior is expelled as magma. Does that leave an empty hole in the interior, or does some equal volume of the crust collapse into the center, or does the core just become smaller by that volume? That magma which is expelled into the sea, for instance in the Hawaiian underwater mountain building, does the shrinkage of the core equal the increase of seawater displacement as a one-for-one trade off? If so, then the expelled magma on Mauna Loa must also build the land above the sea at the expense of the core below the sea.
It's not that hard. Every time the satellite passes over a given spot (let's say a mile along its path), it can take hundreds of measurements. Every day the satellite takes the same path and takes hundreds of measurements along that mile stretch. These hundreds of measurements per day can be averaged over weeks and months. All of those measurements can also be averaged with the 24,000 other miles worth of measurement data that this satellite is generating. All of these data points can be corrected with tide charts.
Anyone with a GPS watch can vouch for the fact that they can detect small movements at least on the order of 5 feet or so. Probably more like 1-2 feet for a good one. But then imagine a few hundred thousand GPS watches all hooked up to a super computer averaging their data. That's how you get data with a margin of error of millimeters.
"...Tide stations around the globe tell us what is happening at a local level—the height of the water as measured along the coast relative to a specific point on land."...Wrong. All we have to do is defer to the experts in the field, who I can guarantee are more knowledgeable than you, and all of us. And guess what they say?
Is sea level rising?
There is strong evidence that sea level is rising and will continue to rise this century at increasing rates.oceanservice.noaa.gov
Even under our present administration NOAA’s website still says sea level is rising. They even mention all of the confounding variables you mention! Imagine that!
Thank you. Very adequetly worded where I was just at a loss for words for the level of stupidity of some questions. He was right though. The question wasn't even funny.
volcano.oregonstate.edu
Very true. It always astounds me how people can have such a low understanding of a subject and still have such a strong opinion.
