Satellite derived sea level updated- short term trend has been shrinking since 2005 « Watts Up With That?

We’ve been waiting for the UC web page to be updated with the most recent sea level data. It finally has been updated for 2008. It looks like the steady upward trend of sea level as measured by satellite has stumbled since 2005...

CO2-hysteric climate book is judges' hot pick

A book about global warming has won this year's Royal Society prize for popular science writing.

Mark Lynas' Six Degrees:...Our Future on a Hotter Planet has already been turned into a TV programme and is now almost certain to experience a jump in sales. The book explains how Earth will change for every degree rise in temperature - from droughts to mass extinctions.

Mr Lynas was presented with the winner's £10,000 cheque at a ceremony hosted by the UK academy of science.
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Professor Jonathan Ashmore, the chair of the judges, described the book as "compelling and gripping".

"It presents a series of scientifically plausible, worst-case scenarios without tipping into hysteria," he said.

"Six Degrees is not just a great read, written in an original way, but also provides a good overview of the latest science on this highly topical issue.

"This is a book that will stimulate debate and that will, Lynas hopes, move us to action in the hope that this is a disaster movie that never happens. Everyone should read this book."

More on Lynas is here.

Excerpt:

As British writer Mark Lynas put it, “The end of the world is nigh, and it’s already been published in Nature”.