Breaking Waves and Global-Scale Chemical Transport in the Earth's Atmosphere, with Spinoffs for the Sun's Interior

I must retract certain statements in the footnote on page 139. (Further information can be found on my home page, http://www.atmos-dynamics.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/mem/; click on ‘lucidity’ then ‘CORRIGENDUM’.) In brief, I was wrong, on several counts, to suggest that the multi-century timescale for sea-level rise due to greenhouse-induced thermal expansion is ‘largely controlled by a quasi-diffusive process’, and that the resulting rate of sea-level rise is ‘roughly proportional to the global mean surface temperature increment’ if the latter is held constant. These statements are oversimplified, and pretend to a more precise knowledge than is available today. However, the main points about the timescale being multi-century and the sea-level rise ‘unstoppable’ are still correct, to the best of my knowledge. Please note also that on page 144 of my paper, line 8, the words ‘a few percent of’ should be deleted, and that on page 157, in the third paragraph (referring to Fig. 9), ‘the graph second from the left’ should read ‘the graph on the left’. I take the opportunity to record that Ref. 69) of my paper has now been published as: D. O. Gough and M. E. McIntyre, “Inevitability of a magnetic field in the Sun’s radiative interior,” Nature 394 (1998), 755–757.