Comment on "A Semi-Empirical Approach to Projecting Future Sea-Level Rise"
Open Access
- 28 September 2007
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 317 (5846) , 1866
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1143286
Abstract
Rahmstorf (Reports, 19 January 2007, p. 368) used the observed relation between rates of change of global surface temperature and sea level to predict future sea-level rise. We revisit the application of the statistical methods used and show that estimation of the regression coefficient is not robust. Methods commonly used within econometrics may be more appropriate for the problem of projected sea-level rise.Keywords
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