Posted on 08/03/2014 12:48:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Using climate models and observations, a fascinating study in this week’s issue of Nature Climate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade-plus hiatus in global warming and even California’s deepening drought
Here’s the University of New South Wales news release:
Atlantic warming turbocharges Pacific trade winds.
Record breaking trade winds may have led to hiatus in global surface average temperatures.
New research has found rapid warming of the Atlantic Ocean, likely caused by global warming, has turbocharged Pacific Equatorial trade winds. Currently the winds are at a level never before seen on observed records, which extend back to the 1860s.
The increase in these winds has caused eastern tropical Pacific cooling, amplified the Californian drought, accelerated sea level rise three times faster than the global average in the Western Pacific and has slowed the rise of global average surface temperatures since 2001.
(Excerpt) Read more at dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Summer is here and the Atlanitic is warning?
Oh the Huge Manatee!!!!
The Layman’s translation of the article: We still don’t have a f*cking clue.
U.S. Monthly Drought Outlook (map)
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/mdo_summary.html
Doomnation is upon us!
I just made up a new word!
I want credit.
Climate change is very real. For example, the average climate of the northern hemisphere is so cold as to cause the ground to be buried under a thousand feet of ice. The cycle of glacier on/glacier off takes place every several hundred thousand years and can be clearly seen in many ways. Even as the science is settled that glaciation has taken place, the causes are still undergoing vigorous debate.
With respect to the idea that humans are causing harmful changes to the climate at this very moment, I am waiting for some peer-reviewed papers that proposes what the optimum climate is for our biosphere. The first question that would naturally flow would be where is our current climate and trend in relation to this finding.
That nobody seems interested in this vital comparison indicates that climate is primarily being studied for other purposes. Since all the urgent demands that flow from today’s climate science coincidentally converge on policy solutions that involve statism, bigger government, higher taxes, less personal liberty, the bigger picture tells me all that I need to know about “climate science”.
>Likely caused: You must buy this supposition as established fact for the rest of the events in the article to have anything to do with global warming. The BIG lie.
Only a massive redistribution of wealth can save us.
The AMO is as high as it has even been.
Actual question... since all the seas are connected, how does the sea level rise in one part of the ocean and not in another?
Well played!
If the Atlantic is warming, shouldn’t we be seeing more tropical storms than usual?
It must be those “turbocharged Pacific trade winds” piling up the water on that side of the Pacific.
Now they are claiming that global warming has heated the Atlantic and that has cooled the Pacific via faster equatorial trade winds.
Hey bozo's, what if the stronger trade winds were actually a result of global cooling ? With stronger trade winds we get weaker and less El Nino's. And that has been the case the past 10 years. The stronger trade winds are now going to also cool the Atlantic and shift the AMO.
How does one ocean get “warming”?
There are cycles in nature that work at different wavelengths that can vary quite a bit and they can be out of phase with each other occasionally. The PDO and AMO are decadal and their oscillations work over periods of decades or years. El Nino and La Nina work over periods of months or weeks. The PDO has been in cold phase for awhile, while the AMO has been in warm phase. Bastardi is predicting a shift to cool phase for the AMO soon. And obviously one of the ways to cool surface water is for a faster wind to flow over the water.
Other then that, they estimate their are a million undersea volcanic eruption points. Who knows what periods volcanic activity cycles can operate on and if they can be slightly out of phase globally. But in a nut shell, apes are clueless. Always have been, always will be.
Alert ! This person just exercised Free Thought. Send this individual to a reeducation camp immediately. This person needs to attend 10 hours of Al Gore Global Warming seminars each day. Followed by a 10 minute, releasing your shockra session. After two months of this reeducation, you will never ever again raise such intelligent questions in public.
Yes. You are correct. A warmer Atlantic should have produced stronger hurricanes and more US mainland hits with cat 4's and 5's. But something changed right after Katrina. The Earth has been cooling since then. The Atlantic will turn into cooling mode real soon now.
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