Abstract
On several occasions, including testimony before Congress, S. Fred Singer has suggested that empirical evidence indicates that a modest warming of global climate would lower global sea level. The evidence is a perceived inverse correlation between records of global air temperature and detrended global sea level. Singer proposes that drops in relative sea level reflect increased snowfall on the polar ice sheets. The implied temperature sensitivity of Antarctic accumulation is much larger than estimated in earlier studies. This paper critically examines Singer's suggestion on the basis of ice‐core records of accumulation rate that do not show periods of marked increase and decrease needed to explain the observed fluctuations in relative sea level.
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