> How much of the current 3.18mm/year rate of sea level rise is due to thermal expansion ...?

How much of the current 3.18mm/year rate of sea level rise is due to thermal expansion ...?

Posted at: 2015-03-12 
... and how much due to the melting of land ice?

http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicators

(scroll down to near the bottom of the page)

Based on the most recently published study, melting ice accounted for about 259 gigatons per year of water into the oceans during 2003-2009 which was about 29% of sea level rise.

Given the increased arctic melt since 2009, I'd guess that it's been above 30% from melt since 2009.

This topic is covered in the last IPCC AR4 report here: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data...

However, ocean depth temperature data is very sparse and especially below 700m and before ARGO was launched in 2003. As well, recent studies have shown that estimates for the contribution of groundwater depletion to sea level rise may have been underestimated: http://www.un-igrac.org/publications/422

So my answer, as with many in climate science, is that we don't really know.

Maybe the rise can be attributed to the 10,000 tons of micro-meteors that enter the atmosphere every year?

Kano is clueless about basic high school science, but "knows" that top scientists in NASA are wrong.

Only on the internet: a bastion for lying anti-science ignoramuses.

"At most, global average sea level is rising at a rate equivalent to 2-3 inches per century. It is probably not rising at all."

That works out to something between 0.5 and 0.8 mm/yr... Seems to be at odds with the numbers you have been given, doesn't it?

Wow 1,7mm we must be drowning, that's enough to wet my big toe.

I don't know exactly but some is thermal expansion, some is melting ice and it is estimated that 4% is from man's use of groundwater.

Note how biased that NASA link is, they show Antarctic ice mass (as measured by some dodgy grace satellite) but do not mention the record ice extent.

... and how much due to the melting of land ice?

http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicators

(scroll down to near the bottom of the page)