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Re:Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather ... by jsingleton on Sunday September 22, 2019 @02:54PM (#21043145)
I assume that is not a quote, as I can't find it anywhere on that page, yet you have made it sound like one.
Re:Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather ... by dilutedh2o on Sunday September 22, 2019 @02:57PM (#21043167)
I think that is an interpretation of the graph showing sea level rise since 1994, which is on that page.
Re:Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather ... by jsingleton on Sunday September 22, 2019 @03:00PM (#21043182)
Looking at the graph there it appears the slope from 2010 onwards is steeper than before 2010 but I'd have to look at the raw data to check.

Edit: It's clearer on the second graph below. From 1870 to present it looks very much like an exponential growth curve, particularly the last few decades.

Re:Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather ... by gus_massa on Sunday September 22, 2019 @05:07PM (#21043964)
The second graph is evidently curved, but it can be fitted quite good by a parabola. Crappy fit: https://imgur.com/a/ViBR21p

Why do you think it is an exponential function?

Re:Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather ... by dwaltrip on Sunday September 22, 2019 @08:25PM (#21044981)
Exponential or parabolic, the rise is still accelerating. The second derivate of sea level is positive in either case.
Re:Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather ... by gus_massa on Monday September 23, 2019 @11:50AM (#21050019)
Yep, like .2 mm/y^2. Exponentials grow much faster than parabolas. When you see that an exponential changes from almost 0 to something, it will change from something to too big to fit in the graph soon, really soon. Parabolas grow more smoothly. The difference is important to make some realistic predictions.