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  1. Carbon - the Huge and Yet Overlooked Fossil Fuel Subsidy
    Hi all. I am one of the people involved in compiling the data on support to fossil fuels in OECD countries (the green ones in the chart). Our numbers pertain cover both production- and consumption-side measures, but pertain only to budgetary expenditures and tax expenditures. The latter account for the bulk of the aggregate values. The IEA numbers pertain only to subsidies provided via policies that artificially lower domestic prices to consumers. So the numbers of the two organizations are not entirely comparable. Also, in respect of the OECD estimates we generally avoid the term "subsidy" (preferring to use the broader term, "support") because tax expenditures feature so dominantly and the reference tax systems differ markedly from one country to another. Hence, if one looks at two countries that exempt farmers from paying fuel tax on diesel, the associated tax expenditure measured in a low-taxing country will be less than that measured in the high-taxing country, even though, overall, consumers pay much higher (after-tax) prices for fuel in the higher-tax country. By the way, the IEA does take into account fuel taxes when deriving its estimates for consumption-related subsidies. Whether to equate externalized costs, including those associated with carbon emissions, with subsidies, is a decades-old debate. Clearly it is valid to speak of the externalized costs of different forms of energy, and to treat those that generate larger externalized costs (externalities) as benefiting from a bigger free ride. However, I disagree with renaming externalities "subsidies". For one, the concept of subsidy is much older than that of externality and it has come to be associated with a transfer of value that is the result of a conscious action of a government. By contrast, externalities exist generally through government INaction. Moreover, most externalities would exist even in a state of anarchy -- indeed. Should a driver of a diesel-fueled truck in Somalia be considered to be "subsidized" because he can emit with impunity? In response to Tom Curtis, I agree that some taxes on transport fuels are, essentially, user charges for roads. So they are not necessarily offsetting externalized costs. Also, as he points out, road accidents (and noise pollution) would exist also for electric vehicles (and those fueled by fuels made from waste materials). But my point on that would be that counting the costs of road accidents and noise pollution (as some other authors have done) as a "subsidy" to petroleum fuels is being selective: they would have to be counted for any vehicles that caused as much injury and property damage or emitted as much noise. One additional problem with rebranding externalities as "subsidies" is that this can confuse the public. In the late 1990s there were several well-publicized studies of environmentally harmful subsidies that included non-internalized externalities in their totals of "subsidies". They then said, "Look at all the environmental damage caused by these $2 trillion a year in subsidies!" Problem was, they were already including the cost of the environmental damage in their subsidy estimates -- i.e., they are double-counting. Finally, I disagree with WheelsOC who claims that Libertarians have no place in their economics for externalities. That is not true of any Libertarians that I know. Libertarians are, however, cautious when it comes to recommending government intervention -- particularly interventions that try to remedy the situation by subsidizing alternatives to polluting activities, and which invariably lead to politicians trying to pick winners (as they did with ethanol). Most Libertarians I know would agree that taxing pollution is, in theory at least, a first-best approach to addressing externalized costs.
  2. It hasn't warmed since 1998
    michaelcomaha, I have responded in a more appropriate place.
  3. Climate's changed before
    michaelcomaha - climate does not change without a cause - conservation of energy etc. The "normal" glacial/interglacial cycle is driven by orbital variations and as such are highly predictable. They vary the distribution and strength of incoming solar energy, something easily measured. On that basis, we should be slightly cooling but instead we are warming. The size of the solar forcing creating the glacial change is also quite predictable and measurable. The man-made GHG forcings though are an order of magnitude higher so little wonder climate is changing so much faster than it does during glaciation.
  4. It hasn't warmed since 1998
    michaelcomaha @203, as Composer @204 notes, your inquiry would be more appropriate in the 'climate's changed before' discussion. However, it's worth briefly noting that the planet had been cooling since about 8,000 years ago until about 150 years ago. While there is warming leading into an interglacial, the interglacial periods themselves are relatively stable and generally slightly cooling.
  5. IPCC ‘disappeared’ the Medieval Warm Period
    guystone @2 - I find your comment a bit confusing. You would prefer an oversimplified statement like "this was a mistake" (which is not correct, as other comments have pointed out) to a detailed explanation of exactly where the original graph came from and why it was subsequently replaced, as we have provided here? If you're not looking for detailed explanations, I don't think this is the right site to be exploring.
  6. It hasn't warmed since 1998
    michaelcomaha: Your inquiry is off-topic on this post. To point you in the correct direction (both in terms of re-posting your inquiry should you desire and as an answer) please click on the #1 most used climate myth.
  7. IPCC ‘disappeared’ the Medieval Warm Period
    guystone asks:
    Why all the denial, manipulation, excuses, defencevness, or text?! Not this article but anytime the IPCC is questioned[?]
    The answer is quite simple, guystone: since the vast majority of pseudoskeptic criticisms of the IPCC are without merit, or even when meritorious are unreasonably exaggerated, it is worth making the effort to defend the IPCC. IMO your framing of the situation is out of line. The defence of IPCC processes and contributors only appears to be as you characterize it if the pseudoskeptics' inaccurate portrayals are accepted.
  8. It hasn't warmed since 1998
    How does the current "man is causing global warming" theory jive with the facts that the earth has normal cooling (glacial) and warming (interglacial) cycles? According to my research, it is a fact that we went into a interglacial period (global warming) over 11,000 years ago. So, yes we are in global warming and its cause had nothing to do with man's activities because there weren't many humans 11,000 years ago and the humans that were around didn't drive vehicle or have power plants. Interglacial periods, from my research, can last 40,000 years. My take, considering the above facts, is that man's involvement with global warming is insignificant, it's going to happen with or without man, just like the next glacial period will.
  9. Dikran Marsupial at 03:32 AM on 21 August 2012
    IPCC ‘disappeared’ the Medieval Warm Period
    @guystone Science is provisional, and always subject to updates. The IPCC were asked to produce a summary of the current mainstream view on climate change, and they did. At the time, the figure was not an unreasonable representation of what was know at that time, AFAICS before peer reviewd proxy reconstructions were even available. The FAR was published in 1990, but the first proxy reconstructions didn't appear until several years later. So your characterisation of the IPCC as not having spent enough time on research, is to say the least rather uncharitable. Lamb's figure, and the IPCCs use of it, isn't a "mistake"; it is simply that less was known then than is known now. Of course "skeptic" try to make a mountain out of such molehills. Does the IPCC really need to formally acknowledge everytime some piece of information from a previous report is superceded? No, it is far better for us to understand the provisional nature of science and just read the reports as snapshots of mainstream scientific opinion, as that is actually excatly what they are. "When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?" J. M. Keynes.
  10. IPCC ‘disappeared’ the Medieval Warm Period
    guystone, the IPCC didn't create the schematic. Nor did they 'change' it. A hand drawn schematic of roughly what temperatures in central England had been like over the course of the past thousand years (from a 1982 paper) was included in the IPCC FAR. In later reports actual temperature reconstruction graphs for the entire planet from more recent studies were included. Newer science was included in newer reports. That only becomes "a mistake" or "manipulation" when people start lying about what happened. Don't buy into the nonsense.
  11. IPCC ‘disappeared’ the Medieval Warm Period
    I believe that global warming is caused by the human population (or I give it about a 90% chance and about a 50% chance we can actually reduce it enough to make a difference before we actually run out of "fuel") but... The IPCC created the original graph and they changed it. Plain and simple. Why not just say and only say "this was a mistake and we do make mistakes". We didn't spend enough time and research enough on it back when we created the graph because it wasn't as important as it is now. Why all the denial, manipulation, excuses, defencevness, or text?! Not this article but anytime the IPCC is questioned
  12. Climate skeptic claims prebunked by Keeling
    What I find amusing is that given that the measurements are next to a volcano and allegedly volcanoes chuck out huge amounts of CO2 sporadically. The keeling curve is surprisingly smooth. I guess the volcano is intelligent and lets out just enough CO2, even when it has a bit of a build up. OK lets assume it doesn't belch a load of CO2 sporadically, the graph shows that there would be a constant amount interfering with readings all the time. So deduct whatever that mythical amount is and you still get a graph with a positive slope! Are some skeptics saying that the atmospheric CO2 produces a flat line and CO2 from the volcano has risen uniformly for 50 odd years, producing a curve?? That would be easily proven, so lets see the proof.
  13. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    @Agnostic You wrote that "If global temperatures rise more than 2°C, ozone concentration in the lower atmosphere is likely to rise above 100 ppb,..." That suggests that the tropospheric average ozone would increase to that level, which is most likely not going to happen. Have a reference? You probably meant to say locally not globally. The actual expectation is that, while increases will also happen to "background" ozone globally, local exceedances of ozone will become more frequent due to higher temperatures. That relationship is observed everywhere and is a straightforward result of the reduced atmospheric lifetime of a major NOx reservoir, so-called peroxynitrates, into which NOx is sequestered at lower temperatures.
  14. Pielke Jr and McIntyre Assist Christy's Extreme Weather Obfuscation
    Doug wrote: "Pielke's got a good shelf life, though. Never seems to smell bad to journalists, etc." Keep in mind that the only 'science' he has a degree in is political science. Pielke's approach to actual science has always been from a political angle, and that of course includes knowing how to handle journalists. He's a 'professional science analyst and communicator'... a field which frankly I'd rather didn't exist. Science should speak for itself rather than being 'packaged' and 'messaged' for political purposes.
  15. Students sprout creative communications on climate change Inside the Greenhouse
    Would not receive a good grade from me in Visual Communications
    Moderator Response: [Sph] Please make a comment that adds substance to the discussion. A drive by statement of your personal opinion is of no value.
  16. Climate skeptic claims prebunked by Keeling
    I don't know what to say. It's incredible there is (still) a need to debunk well established stuff like this. Sad.
  17. Graeme Rodaughan at 19:46 PM on 20 August 2012
    Climate skeptic claims prebunked by Keeling
    It strikes me that given that Mauna Loa provides a 50+ year instrumental record of CO2 concentration that it provides pretty much the gold standard for CO2 measurement in the late 20th century/early 21st century scientific record. Personally - I don't see how anyone could retain credibility and also claim that CO2 has not risen within the 20th century - at the very least.
  18. Climate skeptic claims prebunked by Keeling
    Here we go, one of my prouder moments ;) It's amazing where forum discussions can go! http://rabett.blogspot.com.au/2009/10/ian-plimer-is-con-artist-one-of.html http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/10/25/plimer-the-plagiarist/
  19. Climate skeptic claims prebunked by Keeling
    Brilliant. When I learned about d13C measurements, and TA carbon fluxes and looked at the CO2 pumhandle here I thought people knew about this stuff since ~1980, as pumphandle starts from there. It turns out Charlie knew that since 1960... Big time hats off to him. And big time scorn at denialists who keep agnoring such exceptional piece of science.
  20. Climate skeptic claims prebunked by Keeling
    I have an email from Piers Tan from the Mauna Loa observatory debunking a claim regarding this issue made by Plimer in his book. I'll dig it up after work, Eli Rabett picked up on it and has a post about it on his blog somewhere.
  21. Sea Level Isn't Level: This Elastic Earth
    Keep them coming, Rob. Big subjects deliverred in easily digested, bite sized chunks is just what we laypersons are looking for.
  22. Climate skeptic claims prebunked by Keeling
    I tend to think that the measurments from Cape Grim might go someway to debunk this meme as well!
  23. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    Xterrajack expresses two views doubting that AGW contributed to the Moscow heat wave (2010) and questioning the possibility of a 1-2m sea level rise by 2100. Both points have been responded to by Kevin C (9) and witsend (11) and I thank them for that. I would note that Coumou and Rahmstorf (2011) and Hansen et al (2011) come to the conclusion that AGW contributed to the Russian heatwave of 2010 and as noted above, there is growing evidence that in the absence of AGW it was unlikely to have occurred. See http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20111110_NewClimateDice.pdf Recent data suggests SLR of 0.75 – 2m. by 2100. Hansen and Sato come to the view that SLR in the order of 5m by 2100 is a possible outcome of CO2 emissions continuing on a business as usual basis, a view which I accept. For the purposes of this blog on health, I have opted for the lower estimate. See http://www.skepticalscience.com/sea-level-rise-predictions.htm
  24. Book review: Language Intelligence by Joe Romm
    I have been using much the same:
    "The world is warming and mankind is the cause of it."
  25. actually thoughtful at 11:59 AM on 20 August 2012
    Book review: Language Intelligence by Joe Romm
    Myers-Briggs identifies this problem (communication between rational/analytic and the rest of humanity). Those who are iNtuitive (as opposed to those who are Sensors) - see the world in concepts. This is 25% of the population. 75% see the world concretely - thus the power of metaphors. I repeat the following clear thought as my signature on any internet site I post on (excepting SkS) - "The world is warming; man is to blame". It sometimes starts a conversation. I encourage anyone who posts in areas with signatures to find a similar simple statement to increase the amount of repetition of message. You are certainly welcome to use the sentence I use.
  26. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    I have often tried to frame AGW in terms of rates of change and the limited ability of populations to cope with current rapid change. I think that the same thing is starting to show up in our infrastructure, which has been premised upon a stable climate. Who would have thought that heat waves could derail trains or effect nuclear plants? It also seems like a lot of the health hazards are rather cynically directed at the already-vulnerable, like children. I read about some decent adaptation/mitigation strategies - in Chicago they had public air conditioned facilities, which probably helped a lot of homeless people. But it seems like the resources invested in adaptation and mitigation could be better invested if we just cut our carbon habit. We didn't have those facilities here in the NC triangle, and it was pretty awful. I wrote about a lot of my thoughts on this here: http://topologicoceans.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/global-warming-killed-my-friends-dog/
  27. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    There is also the this direct effect which should be mentioned..... Global warming: Future temperatures could exceed livable limits ... www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100504155413.htm 5 May 2010 – Wet-bulb temperature is equivalent to what is felt when wet skin is exposed to moving air. ... The team used climate models to compare the peak wet-bulb temperatures to the .... Part of the iVillage Your Total Health Network ...
  28. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    There's also mental health. Which is going to impact developed nation more because of the greater relative effect..... http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidferris/2012/03/31/is-climate-change-a-mental-health-emergency/
  29. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    It's my understanding that the IPCC predictions for SLR account for thermal expansion but not melting ice, since there is too much uncertainty in models. Given the speed with which ice is actually melting, it seems more than reasonable to assume that SLR will be much more substantial than IPCC projections. (a good summary of arctic ice is here: http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2012/08/asi-2012-update-9-stormy-weather.html) The Smog Blog has excellent graphs for US air quality: http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq/
  30. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    There is a terrific current ozone data report at http://airgraphing.pscleanair.org/ It covers the Puget Sound Region around the Seattle area. One can track particulates, NO3 - really you can make your own reports. It really is terrific - and other regions should have similar tracking. For instance, See Aug 17th select ozone in the location Enumclaw - or any area. Select Average or hourly measure. Some bad ozone that day - it was 95 degrees, sunny, low wind and lots of combustion pollution. (cough, cough)
  31. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    Xterrajack: You may want to compare Dole et al with Rahmstorf and Coumou (2011), and then read Otto et al (2012). This post at Real Climate is also relevant. The literature and methods on attribution of extreme events is developing quite rapidly at the moment.
  32. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    While there are certainly issues associated with climate change, there are errors and assumptions in this post. For instance, a paper by Dole, et al, 2011 concluded that the intense 2010 Russian heat wave was mainly due to natural internal atmospheric variability. Dole is employed in the Physical Sciences Division of the Earth System Research Laboratory at NOAA. And, for a 1 to 2 meter sea level rise to occur by 2100, it would require the average annual rate of SLR to increase by a rate of 3.7 to 7.3 times the current rate. Those numbers are well above the current upper bounds projected by the IPCC.
  33. Sea Level Isn't Level: This Elastic Earth
    error: should be fig.2 !:=)
  34. Sea Level Isn't Level: This Elastic Earth
    thank you for the super informative post and the illustrations ... I am especially thankful for the animation in fig.1 ...
  35. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    Thanks RPauli and DaveW. Sphaerica, you can download the book (for free!) as a pdf in dropbox here: http://www.deadtrees-dyingforests.com/pillage-plunder-pollute-llc/ I wrote it precisely so that there would be a compilation of sources - peer-reviewed, published science - with links and illustrations. Scientists have in fact been studying the effects of ozone on plants for many decades and the conclusion is that plants are more sensitive to ozone than people or animals. According to Peter Cox of MIT, 40 ppb is the threshold above which ozone damages plants, which absorb it through stomates in foliage and needles. In many parts of the world, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, 40 ppb is now the persistent background level of tropospheric ozone, while localized peaks are far above that. Even remote areas are impacted as precursors travel across oceans and continents, which has been tracked by satellite. It's well-established that the first impact is to roots, as plants are forced to allocate more energy to repair injury at the point of entry. Hence plants - including trees, perhaps especially since they are exposed to chronic, cumulative damage - are more vulnerable to drought and wind. By the time injury is visible on foliage (which is common by midsummer) internal damage has already occurred. Another well-established effect, observed in both field work and controlled fumigation experiments in both the US and Europe, is that outbreaks of insects, disease and fungus opportunistically attack plants and trees that are weakened by ozone. Hence many uninformed foresters and others who prefer not to blame industrial civilization for the global trend will blame biotic factors for the decline in forest health.
  36. Sea Level Isn't Level: This Elastic Earth
    BC - that's not something I have looked into. Presumably giant ice sheets have accumulated on North America, Greenland and Scandinavia because of the gulf stream - water evaporated off the warm Atlantic sea surface and then transported north. Siberia is not endowed with such a 'moisture conveyor'.
  37. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    Nicely done.
  38. Sea Level Isn't Level: This Elastic Earth
    Chriskoz - sorry for the confusion. It's due to the lack of up-to-date images on this particular aspect. I should have checked a bit closer before posting two images that would confuse attentive readers, such as yourself. Figure 4 is the rate of uplift when averaged over the last 10,000 years - see figure 2 in Paulson (2007). Whereas figure 1 in Horton (2009) is the modern-day rate of change as depicted by Peltier's earlier deglaciation model (version 4). The Patagonian observation is not included in the GIA model simulations because it (the deglaciation model) can't actually predict the location and scale of future ice losses - the Patagonian uplift being observed more recently. Rather, what it does do is help in disentangling the Earth's response from the loss of the giant ice sheets many thousands of years ago, from the mass loss occurring today. I'm now starting to think that I should have kept this post a bit simpler, and shorter.
  39. Sea Level Isn't Level: This Elastic Earth
    There is no GIA over most of Siberia despite it being at similar latitudes as Canada and Europe, presumably because there wasn't much in the way of ice sheets there. Do you have any idea why? I'm guessing it's to do with the Gulf Stream producing moisture which end's up as snow and ice. Besides the top end of the North Atlantic the other hot spot of activity is the WAIS as per chriskos's question. Is there some corresponding reason for this?
  40. Hansen's New Climate Dice - Hot, Loaded, and Misunderstood
    Gavin Schmidt has posted a blog on Hansen 2012 and its critics at Real Climate. The early section contains little that is not seen above, although well worth reading for Gavin's clear exposition. The later section contains an interesting discussion of the non-linearity of impacts with increasing temperature, and the consequences with regard to criticisms like that of Cliff Mass.
  41. Hansen's New Climate Dice - Hot, Loaded, and Misunderstood
    And now my comments are not being posted at Cliff's site, not even an unrelated question about an image from a local modeling run. Geez. I suppose I invited this on myself but I thought Cliff had a thick enough skin to suffer a little criticism along with praise (and cash contributions to his modeling efforts, for that matter). Enough, time to move along.
  42. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    Jeekers, Sphaerica "underimpressed" with WitsEnd?? You know, she only provides the links to sources - you actually have to read them. I found links to EPA studies, European studies, even studies from the Bush Administration and the National Crop Loss network. And a few hundred more at http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/p/more-links-to-research.html She has a printed book if you prefer paper. WitsEnd is only making it easier to find the content, you can find it on your own if you prefer.
  43. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    Keen, Just my opinion, but I've seen Wit's End before, and I am dramatically under-impressed. It completely fails to make its case. In particular the links to research are almost entirely tangential, or not even research papers -- just articles and such. If ozone impact on trees is a real problem, scientists should study it and establish it as fact. For now, for me, it's pseudoscience, and it's also a distraction to real problems that we can credibly identify, like global warming. We have enough on our plate without trying to pile on everything we can possibly think of.
  44. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    "The presence of ozone in the troposphere in concentrations above 40 parts per billion near the earths’ surface is corrosive and toxic to humans, other air breathing animals and many food plants." Numbers of people are commenting on ozone damage to people and food plants...there exists a pretty strong case for serious and rapidly developing damage to our trees as well - check out Wit's End blog There really is something happening! DaveW
  45. Review of new iBook: Going to Extremes
    I can't purchase the book in the Canada store.
  46. Pielke Jr and McIntyre Assist Christy's Extreme Weather Obfuscation
    Jason @134 and michael @139 make a good point. We've been busy determining whether Field's comments were consistent with the body of scientific literature (and showed that they were), but Roger raised another issue, claiming that Field should not have 'gone beyond' the content of the SREX because supposedly he was there purely as an IPCC SREX representative. But as you note, Field began his testimony specifically stating the many different pieces of scientific literature that he would be referencing. The more we look into his comments, the shallower Roger's position becomes. Coincidentally, I noticed that the LinkedIn Climate Policy Group members often use the term 'agree to disagree'. Maybe it's because they so often discuss policy, which is an area where people can have opposing but valid opinions. That's a bad habit to get into when discussing science though.
  47. Global Warming - A Health Warning
    Thank you for posting, Agnostic. The Lancet medical journal has identified Climate Change as potentially the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century. Health professionals are trying to increase awareness of this. I do think your post would gain from some revision. Frustratingly, for example, there remain no specific treatments for the arthropod borne viral infections you list (e.g., Ross River virus). Also, the points need referencing, especially the part about ozone. Crop failure and famine is most certainly a health issue, as is conflict over resources, and extreme weather events. And dealing with all these things will carry a large opportunity cost as our health care systems are diverted from current preoccupations such as cancer and heart disease.
  48. Pielke Jr and McIntyre Assist Christy's Extreme Weather Obfuscation
    Dana, I am shocked that Pielke would directly misrepresent another scientist when he thought that you would not be able to check the original source. Congratulations on your persistence in finding out the real story. It will be interesting to see how Pielke justifies his statements in the unlikely event that he comes back to this thread. It seems that one problem is that Roger claims that Field should stick to the SREX report while Field stated at the start of his testimony that he would include more recent research. As referenced in the OP and in Hansen's recent paper, extreme weather caused by AGW has been associated directly with billion dollar economic losses since SREX was written. Why should Field limit his testimony to old data?
  49. Pielke Jr and McIntyre Assist Christy's Extreme Weather Obfuscation
    Now that I've cruised the entire thread of discussion here, I find it simply amazing that Roger feels free to fling bald accusations such as are quoted in comment #116, only to blithely announce that pressing concerns preclude his further participation in an extended effort to get him to take ownership of his own words. "Honest broker?" Hardly. He's certainly got the patronizing sneer down pat, but honesty is nowhere to be found in this schtick. I don't know if anybody remembers, but Roger also was one of the point men accusing Rajendra Pachauri of profiting by Pachauri's stewardship of IPCC; again, immoderate words were written by Roger and then widely quoted. When it became obvious that Roger had degraded himself by joining the baying pack of yahoos going after Pachauri, he simply refused to acknowledge his error, descending as usual into a blizzard of elliptical verbiage whirling around the actual topic: Pielke's own error. Pielke's got a good shelf life, though. Never seems to smell bad to journalists, etc.
  50. Sea Level Isn't Level: This Elastic Earth
    chriskoz@4 Rob's fig 4 shows crustal uplift, whereas Figure 1 in Horton (2009) shows changes in the geoid (essentially sea level). So, the two maps show different consequences from the same cause. You can compare maps for GIA effects on the geoid, the lithosphere and the water equivalent thickness at these links. As for Patagonia, I don't have access to the full paper, but judging from the abstract, this observed rapid uplift seems to be associated with historical (century scale, since the Little Ice Age) deglaciation on a localized area with a local low viscosity mantle. So I think that your suggestion that this is a small scale phenomenon may be correct.

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