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My last post on sea level rise here led to Swedish blog site Stockholms Initiativet to post on the subject as well.

That post in turn sparked a reader comment from top Swedish climate scientist Lennart Bengtsson, translated in English (my emphasis):

Hi We now have satellite measurements for 20 years which indicate a steady rise of about 3 mm per year, and during that time no acceleration, See: http://sealevel.colorado.edu/. However, it is important to be clear that this is an average and that there were considerable local variations related to tectonic changes, among others, after the last ice age. The isostatic adjustment that needs to be done in order to obtain useful data are being evaluated by the experts now. As you can see from the graph, it is clear that we need a relatively long time to obtain a realistic trend, but 20 years is certainly enough. On Monday I was involved in a public panel discussion with Pachauri who insisted that this is an acceleration. I found that I think I know more about this than Mr. Pachauri. The reference above appears to me quite compelling.“

You just gotta love it. So even though the observations show there is no real detectable acceleration in sea level rise, Pachauri “insists that this is an acceleration“. It’s all in their fantasies and crystal ball models. None of it is real. This is what the panic is based on.

Also note that Bengtsson calls the comprehensive compilation of by K.E. Puls “quite compelling”. No surprise here as real observations tend to be so.

PS: Some of Lennart Bengtsson awards:

2007 Rossby Prize 2007 by the Swedish Geophysical Society (SGS)

2007 Elected Honorary Member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)

2006 International Meteorological Organization (IMO) Prize of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

2005 Descartes Research Prize

1999 Fellow of American Meteorological Society

1998 Umweltpreis 1998 der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt

1998 Member of the Finnish Academy of Science

1996 Milutin Milancovic medal by the European Geophysical Society

1995 Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälischen Wissenschaftsakademie

1993 Member of the Swedish Academy of Science

1991 Honorary Member of the Swedish Meteorological Society

1990 Doctor honoris causa, University of Stockholm

1990 Förderpreis and the Golden Rosette for European Science by the Körberstiftung, Hamburg

1989 Member of Academia Europea

1986 Julius von Hann´s Gold Medal by the Austrian Meteorological Society

Publications: www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/staff/lennart-bengtsson/refer.html