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Rapidly Warming Oceans Set to Release Heat into the Atmosphere{Prophets of Global Warming}
Scientific American ^ | Dec. 30, 2014 | By John Upton and Climate Central

Posted on 12/31/2014 5:49:38 PM PST by RBStealth

The seas have stored most of the excess heat generated by greenhouse gases since 2000, but they are due to send it back skyward December 30, 2014 |By John Upton and Climate Central

A Weddell seal with a conductivity-temperature-depth tag on its head. Credit: Dan Costa, University of California at Santa Cruz

Probing a blue abyss can be an abysmal recipe for the blues.

For every 10 joules of energy that our greenhouse gas pollution traps here on Earth, about 9 of them end up in an ocean. There, the effects of global warming bite into fisheries, ecosystems and ice. But those effects are largely imperceptible to humans—as invisible to a landlubber as an albatross chomping on a baited hook at the end of a long line.

What scientists discovered in 2014 is that since the turn of the century, oceans have been absorbing more of global warming’s heat and energy than would normally be expected, helping to slow rates of warming on land. What they will be talking about in 2015, and beyond, is when that trend might come to an end—likely following a routine shift in Pacific Ocean trade winds. Much of that extra sunken heat will eventually be belched back into the atmosphere by the overheating seas. The effects of ocean warming might be imperceptible to most of us, but they are far-reaching. They are driving fishing fleets further out to sea, ushering tropical fish into polar waters, and worsening flood hazards for coastal communities.

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KEYWORDS: doomwoeohnoes; globalwarming; manbearpig
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To: DaxtonBrown

I think the oceans start selectively storing heat as the
relationship between democrat ideology and actual climate data becomes increasingly contradictory.

Or maybe its when Algore’s profits drop beneath a threshold level.


41 posted on 12/31/2014 6:20:06 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: cripplecreek

How dare you quote the 1’st law of thermodynamics. We’re supposed to be in full emotional tizzy mode here.


42 posted on 12/31/2014 6:21:08 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: RBStealth

We are all going to die! In less than 125 years everyone now on Earth will be dead!!!

It’s Bush’s fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.


43 posted on 12/31/2014 6:21:28 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: RBStealth
What scientists discovered in 2014 is that since the turn of the century, oceans have been absorbing more of global warming’s heat and energy than would normally be expected

So, they don't know what they're talking about.
44 posted on 12/31/2014 6:22:12 PM PST by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: RBStealth

There’s never any actual warming, just rumors of warming. “Scientific” American is one of the top rumor mongers in the country.


45 posted on 12/31/2014 6:23:52 PM PST by samtheman
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To: Bubba_Leroy

>> It’s Bush’s fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.

Right! And don’t even get me started about those fracking oil ‘n gas wells!


46 posted on 12/31/2014 6:25:48 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed is his demon.)
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To: SpaceBar; EagleUSA
"Scientific American is a fully politicized rag that publishes dreck written by stoned banana slugs."

I subscribed to Scientific American back in the 60's/70's and it was awesome! Mathemagical themes, Hofstadter, real articles from real scientists about real research.

I resubscribed last year and was horrified that, not only had they lost their belief in the scientific method, but they had become a religion of political belief! Truly stupid opinions with a snotty attitude. Most of the authors clearly do not even know what "scientific method" means.

It is trash, a pathetic embarrassment. It angered me.

"Scientific American" indeed!

47 posted on 12/31/2014 6:27:06 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: SpaceBar

And I’m a high school drop out.


48 posted on 12/31/2014 6:28:44 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: RBStealth

OK. So the ocean got a little warmer. I was too far out to swim back to the beach bathroom.


49 posted on 12/31/2014 6:31:14 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: RBStealth

They are or were a bunch of Commies at “Scientific American.” The Piel family used to run that misnamed magazine and the Piel wife was head of the Commie front, The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. That Communist transmission belt, The ACLU, was bad enough!


50 posted on 12/31/2014 6:31:58 PM PST by Stepan12 (Our present appeasement of Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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To: SpaceBar

Thirty years ago SA was leftist dreck. Not much has changed since then.


51 posted on 12/31/2014 6:32:10 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: RBStealth

Yes. This is great news.

More food. Lower heating bills. Lower cost of living. Better wine.

I am looking forward to this.


52 posted on 12/31/2014 6:37:38 PM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: RBStealth
Much of that extra sunken heat will...

Hey, John, do you remember back in eighth grade, when your science teacher talked about convection?

53 posted on 12/31/2014 6:39:27 PM PST by InMemoriam (Interest rates are hot-wired to zero to delay the complete destruction of the dollar.)
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To: RBStealth

I remember when the mag had real science articles in it.


54 posted on 12/31/2014 6:41:06 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: RBStealth

more desalt plants and we can drink the ocean level down.


55 posted on 12/31/2014 6:42:04 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Defund , sue, impeach. Overturn Obamacare, amnesty.)
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To: RBStealth

Anti-science on the march!

Warm oceans put packed ice on the continents rapidly. That was the cause of the ice age.

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56 posted on 12/31/2014 6:43:55 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Cementjungle

>> “It’s a creative excuse.” <<

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Its a feeble stupid excuse that demonstrates how they disregard the science to make up their fantasies.

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57 posted on 12/31/2014 6:46:58 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Nervous Tick

Isn’t a seal a mammal and therefore an air-breathing animal? They certainly can’t be used to get temperature readings at great depths (where the excess heat is purportedly hiding out).


58 posted on 12/31/2014 6:47:36 PM PST by Bob (Violence in islam? That's not a bug; it's a feature.)
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To: cripplecreek

You just can’t trust those cunning oceans!

They’ve been scheming against us for dumping our sewage in them.

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59 posted on 12/31/2014 6:50:04 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Da Coyote

>> “I remember when the mag had real science articles in it.” <<

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Which issue was that? I forget.

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60 posted on 12/31/2014 6:53:53 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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