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.
“we gots to watch out for them dangerous Hiatuses,.. there Andy”
Here we go again...the left are determined to fabricate this lie to get their cut of The Global Climate Change Fund
I wish it would get warmer here. I HATE the cold.
I’m not even 40 yet, and I’m getting too old for this shit. I’d move to Florida, but my wife and I love the mountains of VA...
The problem, as I see it, is that as more people are forced to be “in” on the lie, the higher the likelihood that someone’s going to blow the whistle on the whole thing. I wonder how many Vince Fosters there have been for the climate change lobby?
Average ocean temperature around the globe is now — what? 160 degrees F? I mean, if you’re just going to make stuff up, make it up big!
Right - just you go running into the surf in January .....
Let’s see the raw dataset from which you have derived your conclusions.
I don’t believe you, since you have lied repeatedly in the past, fudged the numbers repeatedly in the past, used screwy computer code repeatedly to give the results you are seeking rather than an accurate assessment.
Sorry — not buying.
And the difference between the number and accuracy of the contributing data points between 1880 and now is?
An increase in data points does what to the data?
How many datapoints were used in 1880?
And now?
Oy...
The 0.8C is 33.4d F
And they calculated this minute amount how?? They're full of sh**.
Run for your lives!!!
...and give Algore money and buy a curly light bulb to make it all stop.
Got early snow this year, but I am pretty sure it’s the warmest snow on record.
Funny how 13 years is a pause, but 7 months is a trend.
Re: “Got early snow this year, but I am pretty sure it’s the warmest snow on record.”
Love your comment. Made me laugh, and I needed one today. Thanks, bobo1.
The Global Warming Hiatus!!! Ha haaaaaaaa! I love it.
So what happens during this hiatus? Reruns? Sonny and Cher retrospectives?
Regroup, reform, recoup, invest in cattle futures.. The usual hiatus stuff.
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