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Cause of global warming hiatus found deep in the Atlantic Ocean
The University of Washington ^ | 8/21/2014 | Hannah Hickey

Posted on 08/22/2014 8:10:16 AM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight

Following rapid warming in the late 20th century, this century has so far seen surprisingly little increase in the average temperature at the Earth’s surface. At first this was a blip, then a trend, then a puzzle for the climate science community.

More than a dozen theories have now been proposed for the so-called global warming hiatus, ranging from air pollution to volcanoes to sunspots. New research from the University of Washington shows that the heat absent from the surface is plunging deep in the north and south Atlantic Ocean, and is part of a naturally occurring cycle. The study is published Aug. 22 in Science.

(Excerpt) Read more at washington.edu ...


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KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; proof; study
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To: bolobaby

Would conduction result in greater heat at depth then at the surface? I think not unless there is some form of forced convection.

Meanwhile, the SST in the Atlantic has been cooling of late.

I actually did better in Physics btw!


21 posted on 08/22/2014 8:48:24 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight
...a puzzle for the climate science community.

I was able to find a photo of one of their meetings;


22 posted on 08/22/2014 8:48:44 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (It is through will alone that I set my mind in motion.)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

Can’t get that link to work.


23 posted on 08/22/2014 8:58:27 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: NowApproachingMidnight
The so-called global change experts don't have a clue how the oceans interact with our weather. That is true because they have no meaningful historical data regarding ocean temperatures and currents. The scant data they are collecting today barely scratches the surface (so to speak).

This announcement is an attempt to resurrect a dying theory by explaining away the inability of the theory to predict actual physical phenomenon. This is political activism, not science.

24 posted on 08/22/2014 9:02:01 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

“My brain hurts”


25 posted on 08/22/2014 9:04:18 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

“Following rapid warming in the late 20th century,”

What rapid warming? The warming on the fictitous hockey graph?


26 posted on 08/22/2014 9:12:02 AM PDT by CSM
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

A new horror movie. “It Came From Below The Sea”


27 posted on 08/22/2014 9:32:21 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

It’s the insidious, nefarious, scandalous, bourgeois capitalists! Insidious and nefarious! Nefarious and insidious!


28 posted on 08/22/2014 9:35:31 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: Mouton
Funny, I always thought hot fluids rise. Guess I need go back to chemistry class.

Amazing isn't it.

29 posted on 08/22/2014 9:37:53 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

Adjust, adjust, adjust - that is what humans have done since they started walking the earth, and they’ve kept getting better at it and now have more means and technology for it than they’ve ever had, so my “climate” prediction is we will adjust to - mitigate the effects of - the climate at this time better than we ever have before. Global warming or not, humans are up to the challenge of dealing with it.


30 posted on 08/22/2014 9:53:16 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Dilbert San Diego
If the Neanderthals had SUVs and coal plants, that was no big deal. There weren't that many of them. And the pop growth didn't take off until the industrial revolution.

In 1800 there were less than a billion, now more than 7 billion, and 11 billion by 2100.

At some point, the number of humans becomes such a large force that it exceeds some or all the cyclic forces.


31 posted on 08/22/2014 9:58:10 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Senator_Blutarski

Exactly; and thank you for putting that so succinctly.


32 posted on 08/22/2014 10:20:27 AM PDT by mbj (.)
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To: bassmaner

The global warming movement /wants/ people to stop /trying/ to understand - and to simply place blind faith in whatever their theory du jour happens to be.


33 posted on 08/22/2014 10:22:16 AM PDT by mbj (.)
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To: Red Badger

Don’t you just love how they keep changing the model and reasons to match the current situation.


34 posted on 08/22/2014 10:24:23 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

Yes, a natural occurring cycle. Sort of explains the ice age and jungles in the arctic.


35 posted on 08/22/2014 10:25:12 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: bolobaby; Mouton; FreeReign; smokingfrog; NowApproachingMidnight
Not to validate their malarkey, but if you heat the surface of a liquid, conduction can transfer the heat to greater depths.

Curious - would that conduction be due to ocean currents "pulling" the warmer water down?

36 posted on 08/22/2014 10:34:04 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Billthedrill

That’s the thing I keep coming back to. It’s the proverbial elephant in the room that these morons refuse to acknowledge.

Q: If your stupid models did not predict this and do not account for it, why the hell should anyone believe ANY of it is correct?

A: THEY SHOULDN’T!


37 posted on 08/22/2014 10:36:53 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Lockbox

GIGO................Garbage In, Garbage Out..................


38 posted on 08/22/2014 10:40:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

What a crock! These anti-science sellouts need to be badly beaten with their worthless dissertations.


39 posted on 08/22/2014 11:04:55 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: 4yearlurker

How could we possibly be discovering new facts about Global Warming? I thought the “science is settled!”


40 posted on 08/22/2014 11:08:01 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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