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Toooo funny! Looks like they had to come up with some more computer models FAST in order to reverse what other computer models predicted 6 months ago.
Southern Ocean Could Slow Global Warming
Science Daily ^ | 12-5-2006 | University Of Arizona
Posted on 12/05/2006 6:41:48 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748976/posts
The Southern Ocean may slow the rate of global warming by absorbing significantly more heat and carbon dioxide than previously thought, according to new research.
....The new finding surprised the scientists, said lead researcher Joellen L. Russell. “We think it will slow global warming. It won’t reverse or stop it, but it will slow the rate of increase.”
The new model Russell and her colleagues developed provides a realistic simulation of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies and Southern Ocean circulation.
Previous climate models did not have the winds properly located. In simulations of present-day climate, those models distorted the ocean’s response to future increases in greenhouse gases. ..
The current set of computer models that scientists use to predict future climate differ in the degree to which heat is sequestered by the Southern Ocean. The models vary in how they represent the behavior of the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the largest current on the planet.
Stouffer said, “The poleward intensification of the westerlies will allow the ocean to remove additional heat and anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Thus, the deep ocean has the potential to slow the atmospheric warming through the increased storage of heat and carbon.” ...”