Posted on 08/26/2014 3:13:58 PM PDT by blam
Emily Gosden, The Telegraph
August 26, 2014
The "pause" in global warming may last another decade before surface temperatures start rising again, according to scientists who say heat is being stored in the depths of the Atlantic and Southern Oceans.
Global average surface temperatures rose rapidly from the 1970s but have been relatively stable since the late 1990s, in a trend that has been seized upon by climate sceptics who question the science of man-made warming.
Climate change scientists have proposed more than a dozen theories to explain the "hiatus", which they say is a "distraction" from the widespread consensus on global warming.
A new study, published in the journal Science, suggests that a natural cycle of ocean currents has caused the phenomenon by drawing heat from shallow waters down almost a mile into the depths of the Atlantic and Southern Oceans.
The cycle naturally produces periods of roughly 30 years in which heat is stored near the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, leading to warmer temperatures, followed by roughly 30 years in which it is stored in the depths, causing cooler surface temperatures, it suggests.
Rising surface temperatures in the last three decades of the 20th century were roughly half caused by man-made global warming and half by the ocean currents keeping more heat near the surface, it finds.
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As I posted on another thread about this....global warming sleeps with the fishes
The “Pause” is because it’s hard to plug in phony data when people are watching.
“. . . may last a decade . . “ “May - *may*”? So could it be that the “pause” may last two decades? Until the end of the century? Not even as much as a decade? What is the scientific consensus? What’s the “settled science” on this “pause”?
How am I supposed to avoid being labelled a “denier” if I don’t even know what the specifics of the party line are?
This “pause” has been going on since 1933.
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There is nothing political in this process. It's how science works, or would work if it were left alone by the political people.
Great point. Some fantastic design work which prevents water from freezing from the bottom up which would be a bit of a problem here on Gaia.
If the globull warming is true, why isn't the oceans storing all that heat now? Huh?
going too fast, sorry
So they are admitting that HALF of the rise in temperatures previously attributed to global warming actually came from ocean currents. That leaves a very small rise in temperatures, that probably comes from solar cycle variation, which we know it is correlated with.
Or it may lasy another thousand years.
One thing that’s certain, though: plenty of corrupt and dishonest scientists will be lining up for fat government grants to study the matter.
Just another pathetic opinion/wild guess based on absolutely no science.
Just like everything else in the history of the scam...
Totally! Could you imagine not being able to watch ice hockey!?! Major problem!
But seriously, yes that is fantastic design work. Admittedly I didn’t think to ask why ice floats until after I read why ice floats somewhere around 20 years ago. Just tucked that factoid in the back of my head for later use.
Well a damn good memory, the discontinuity at 39F, 4C, on the density curve of dihydrogen monoxide is a boon for fish everywhere! And goalies.
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