Open AccessComment on ‘Lower Bounds to Future Sea-Level Rise’
Author(s) -
John Hunter
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of ocean and climate systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1759-314X
pISSN - 1759-3131
DOI - 10.1260/1759-3131.4.4.227
Subject(s) - sea level rise , sea level , statement (logic) , acceleration , mathematics , econometrics , geology , physics , epistemology , oceanography , climate change , philosophy , classical mechanics
The paper Lower Bounds to Future Sea-Level Rise (Parker, 2013) bears many similarities to an earlier one (Parker et al., 2013). In particular, the first pair of equations in both papers are almost identical and wrong, as pointed out by Hunter (2013). In addition, a crucial statement in the Abstract suggests that present observations of sea-level rise show no acceleration and therefore cast doubt on present projections of sea-level rise; this conclusion has previously been shown to be false (Hunter and Brown, 2013). It should be noted that this is by no means a comprehensive exploration of all the possible errors in Parker's paper