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Blondie would say the tide is higher.
Very nice, but you're quoting from the 2001 report, and my graphs are from the 2007 work.
eta:
- "The understanding of anthropogenic warming and cooling influences on climate has improved since the Third Assessment Report (TAR), leading to very high confidence7 that the globally averaged net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming . . . .
"Since the TAR, progress in understanding how climate is changing in space and in time has been gained through improvements and extensions of numerous datasets and data analyses, broader geographical coverage, better understanding of uncertainties, and a wider variety of measurements. Increasingly comprehensive observations are
available for glaciers and snow cover since the 1960s, and for sea level and ice sheets since about the past decade. . . .
"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level (see Figure SPM-3).
"Observations since 1961 show that the average temperature of the global ocean has increased to depths of at least 3000 m and that the ocean has been absorbing more than 80% of the heat added to the climate system. Such warming causes seawater to expand, contributing to sea level rise (see Table SPM-1). . . .
pages 5, 7 here
eata: That's not remotely all of it, but I got bored with cutting and pasting.
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