Email 1609, Jan 2007, Jonathan Gregory to Phil Jones on 'not particularly unusual' sea level rise: "Personally, I suspect that the network is too sparse, so that the variability is to some extent measurement noise. It is so large we have no physical explanation for it..."

Email 1609

date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 14:20:44 +0000 from: Jonathan Gregory

subject: New study: Current sea level rise 'not particularly unusual' to: Phil Jones...

Yes, we are going to have fun with sea level in Paris. Actually I don't think I've read that paper yet but we have a diagram already that shows the very large variability in decadal trends from tide-gauges. Personally, I suspect that the network is too sparse, so that the variability is to some extent measurement noise. It is so large we have no physical explanation for it...

Photos:  PCC meetings

Scientists at an IPCC session in Paris, January 2007.