Carbon rises 800 years after temperatures

JoNova ^ | December 14th, 2009 | Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center

[Just mythoughts]

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[driftless2]

I’ll bet not five percent of the warmists and their acolytes are aware of this. The top nutjobs know this of course, but it would damage things too much coming on top of the Climategate scandal. If the alphabet news networks would air this story, support for climate change legislation would drop by eighty percent.

[Flying Circus]

The ocean is big and deep, so a 700yr lag doesn’t sound outrageous too me. The atmosphere and ocean surface varies much more than the deep ocean, but their temperature swings are still anchored by the deep wafer. Hurricanes and other storms are generated by temperature/pressure imbalances in the atmosphere so they are going to respond to short term inputs.

I think our inputs to the climate are quite small in the grand scheme of things.

[Flying Circus]

Exactly.

[Gene Eric]

>> so [hurricanes] are going to respond to short term inputs.

Thanks.

One last question: Any chance the Sun’s radiation would affect the deeper layers of the ocean without seeing such effects, above sea level, many years later? I’m thinking about the impact on the patterns of deep sea life in addition to directly affecting temperature.

[Flying Circus]

I think the surface pretty well absorbs everything. Within a few hundred feet it’s pitch black. Water, salts, organisms and general flotsam will absorb all spectra of light long before it could effect deep sea critters or their environment.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest. This was shown in Antarctic ice cores going back 100s of 1000s of years. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach.

[Gene Eric]

Thanks.