Posted on 09/23/2014 10:36:33 AM PDT by buffyt
Naturally occurring changes in winds, not human-caused climate change, are responsible for most of the warming on land and in the sea along the West Coast of North America over the last century, a study has found.
The analysis challenges assumptions that the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has been a significant driver of the increase in temperatures observed over many decades in the ocean and along the coastline from Alaska to California.
Changes in ocean circulation as a result of weaker winds were the main cause of about 1 degree Fahrenheit of warming in the northeast Pacific Ocean and nearby coastal land between 1900 and 2012, according to the analysis of ocean and air temperatures over that time
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Perhaps it will be known as “Anthropogenic Global Wind Disruption.”
West Coast warming linked to naturally occurring changes
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OMG. I. LOVE. THAT.
I am with you. I am very surprised the la times reported this. Goes against their global warming message.
Looks like the flood of heat-emitting taco trucks is creeping northward along the coast, with methane billowing in their wake.
Heretics, smite them.
Amazing that they reported it at all.
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