Posted on 11/15/2014 5:36:31 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
From the University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST
“This summer has seen the highest global mean sea surface temperatures ever recorded since their systematic measuring started. Temperatures even exceed those of the record-breaking 1998 El Niño year,” says Axel Timmermann, climate scientist and professor, studying variability of the global climate system at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
From 2000-2013 the global ocean surface temperature rise paused, in spite of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. This period, referred to as the Global Warming Hiatus, raised a lot of public and scientific interest. However, as of April 2014 ocean warming has picked up speed again, according to Timmermann’s analysis of ocean temperature datasets.
“The 2014 global ocean warming is mostly due to the North Pacific, which has warmed far beyond any recorded value (Figure 1a) and has shifted hurricane tracks, weakened trade winds, and produced coral bleaching in the Hawaiian Islands,” explains Timmermann.
He describes the events leading up to this upswing as follows: Sea-surface temperatures started to rise unusually quickly in the extratropical North Pacific already in January 2014. A few months later, in April and May, westerly winds pushed a huge amount of very warm water usually stored in the western Pacific along the equator to the eastern Pacific. This warm water has spread along the North American Pacific coast, releasing into the atmosphere enormous amounts of heat–heat that had been locked up in the Western tropical Pacific for nearly a decade.
“Record-breaking greenhouse gas concentrations and anomalously weak North Pacific summer trade winds, which usually cool the ocean surface, have contributed further to the rise in sea surface temperatures. The warm temperatures now extend in a wide swath from just north of Papua New Guinea to the Gulf of Alaska (Figure 1b),” says Timmermann.
The current record-breaking temperatures indicate that the 14-year-long pause in ocean warming has come to an end.
Yeah, couple of ski resorts in Colorado are already open. Hope they have a good snow year, the Colorado River basin could use it.
We are going to be 30 years into an obvious cooling trend before these guys will even start thinking about give up on the theory of man made global warming. They have too much invested in this farce.
....”They have too much invested in this farce”....
Better said they anticipate a huge payout!
I see what you did there ; )
The ocean is 4 to 6 degrees warmer off the Humboldt county coast because of shifting wind patterns and a high pressure area just offshore. A few Spring flowering shrubs are blooming and some of my strawberries are ripening...
As a person who lives quite Northly I can’t see any personal downsides with Global Warming.
Too bad it is just another anti-scientific leftist hoax.
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