Posted on 08/22/2014 6:04:22 AM PDT by corlorde
The Atlantic ocean could be contributing to the 'pause' in global warming by drawing down heat by nearly a mile, according to a new study.
The research from the University of Washington shows that heat from the surface is plunging deep in the north and south Atlantic, affecting the balance between incoming heat and heat radiated back into the atmosphere. The study is published in Science.
Recent measurements of ocean temperature made by thousands of buoys and observations of Earth's radiative energy by satellite instruments have shown that the Earth is warming up. In fact, Earth's heating rate increased between the 1985-1999 and 2000-2012 periods.
But this increased heating has not directly corresponded with surface warming - and apparently, the answer could be found deep in the Atlantic.
The temperature at the Earth's surface depends upon where the heat is deposited in the oceans. If the upper levels warm, so too will the atmosphere above it. However, if ocean circulations cause more heat to be drawn down to deeper depths, then surface temperatures will cool.
Ka-Kit Tung, a University of Washington professor of applied mathematics and co-author Xianyao Chen of the Ocean University of China, observed deep-sea temperatures from Argo floats that sample the water down to 6,500ft (2,000m).
The authors say that fluctations in surface temperature are part of a cycle involving ocean circulation responses to changes in how dense the upper Atlantic Ocean layers are - ie, how saline they are.
The cycle starts when saltier, denser water at the surface northern part of the Atlantic, near Iceland, causes the water to sink, taking heat down with it. This changes the speed of the current in the Atlantic Ocean that circulates heat throughout the planet.
Recent observations at the surface in the North Atlantic show record-high saltiness, Tung said, while at the same time, deeper water in the North Atlantic shows increasing amounts of heat.
The cycle switches naturally between warm and cool because of tropical water being carried to the North Atlantic, warming the surface and deep water and causing ice to melt. In turn, this makes the surface water there less dense and after a few decades will set off the cooling phase.
After 30 years of warming, the researchers say we are now in the 'cool' phase.
The pause in global warming has been attributed to many environmental factors, with another recent study from ETH Zurich citing climate fluctuations like El Nino and solar irradiance. The team also said that global warming would continue once these natural fluctuations settle down
Anything to keep that cash cow of a fraud going.
Now that’s just unfair. Mother nature is hiding all that heat in the ocean, just to piss of Al Gore.
And keeping the U.S. from “spreading the wealth around” lol.
The dog ate my homework.
Maybe the ocean got scared when it heard about biden skinny dipping or shooting shotguns in the air.
So how long did it take to focus-group THIS little explanation?
Or else, the globe is actually cooling.
Just saying.
I get that we can cause local issues (big city smog, etc). But all our emissions are in the margin of error for change at a global scale.
Even though that flies in the face of known science... yeah.... let’s go with that.
I don’t trust climatologists, environmentalists, or other “alarmists” any more. Too many LIES and fraudulent data from this crowd.
I know there is a pony in here somewhere.
hahahahahahahaha. Sorry, had to get that out of my system.
Ok, so the heat stays at the bottom of the ocean? I guess this is the well know phenomena of warm water sinking and cold water rising.
You might even call this "ENSO": El Niño Southern Oscillation. It's been known for decades and more. When ENSO is properly included in the now disgraced climate models, the anthropogenic "forcings" become quite small.
Yet another excuse for no global warming. Give those parasitical scientists some more welfare money...I mean Federale grants to do a study on this!!!!!
And this phenomenon-of course- never happened before? The planet has never gone through cycles of heat and cold before evvviiiill mankind invented the combustion engine and underarm deodorant! And-naturally- that massive ball of gas and plasma in the sky has NOTHING to do with heating this little, orbiting ball. I don’t see anyone stopping developing countries(China with its yellow air during the Olympics, anyone?) from building and progress and pollution. WE are supposed to retreat to the dark ages( hmmm, what death cult wants that?) out of penance and shame.
How arrogant these people are, and how unwilling they are to do what they can to rid the planet of an evil human by killing themselves.
Makes sense, because heat travels down.
comedy
Wait a minute...are they saying the computer model is flawed?
Bbbbbbbbbut, this is settled science.
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