Category Archives: Oceans

Misguided PBS Spreads Acid Ocean Alarm

Posted on December 13, 2012 by

Guest post by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times On December 5, the PBS News Hour showed a segment titled “Endangered Coral Reefs Die as Ocean Temperatures Rise and Water Turns Acidic,” with Hari Sreenivasan reporting. The story … Continue reading →

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Alice in Wonderland science

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Our energy and environment deserve better – in South Africa and Qatar Guest post by Dr. Kelvin Kemm A few weeks ago, perhaps as a prologue to the “global warming disaster” convention in Doha, Qatar, South Africa’s Department of Environment … Continue reading →

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On noes! CO2 dissolving snails in Antarctica

Posted on November 26, 2012 by

From the British Antarctic Survey  and the University of East Anglia comes one of those press releases where I just have to wonder if this won’t eventually go the way of the “global warming causes mutated frogs” claim that turned … Continue reading →

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Climate change scares the fish

Posted on November 19, 2012 by

From FIS – Worldnews and the warming omnipotence department comes this: Climate change darkens water, drives fish away  Norwegian coastal waters are darkening due to changes in weather and climate, damaging optical conditions for marine animals. Marine biologist Dag L … Continue reading →

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Earth on a bad acid trip?

Posted on November 6, 2012 by

Don’t laugh, that’s what the Geological Society of America is pushing these days to describe the “ocean acidification problem”…from their press release: Earth on Acid: The Present & Future of Global Acidification GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina, … Continue reading →

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Frankenstorm-itis: Five degrees of Separation from Reality and Eleventy Gazillion Joules Under the Sea

Posted on November 3, 2012 by

Guest post by David Middleton This is a sort of sequel to my most recent guest post.   Any and all sarcasm is purely intentional. I ran across this really bizarre blog post from “The Energy Collective” on Real Clear Energy… … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, extreme weather, Humor, hurricanes, Little Ice Age, Oceans, Paleoclimatology, Ridiculae, Satire, Sea Surface Temperature | 80 Comments

Tisdale: Where’s The Anthropogenic Global Warming Signal in the NODC Ocean Heat Content Data (0-700Meters)?

Posted on October 14, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale This is a deviation from my typical presentation of a subdivided dataset. Usually, I divide the dataset in a way that is intended to illustrate how and why natural variables can explain the warming over … Continue reading →

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Reef Alarmists Jump The Shark

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

by Walter Starck (with thanks to Dr. Bob Carter) The Great Barrier Reef is doomed again. A recent widely publicised scientific study reports the dramatic finding that it has lost half its coral in the last 27 years. Forty-eight precent … Continue reading →

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Shrinking Nemo – global warming to make fish smaller

Posted on September 30, 2012 by

From the University of British Columbia , a fish story inspired by a model: Fish getting smaller as the oceans warm: UBC research Changes in ocean and climate systems could lead to smaller fish, according to a new study led … Continue reading →

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Evidence that stratospheric circulation changes drive ocean changes, and thus climate changes

Posted on September 24, 2012 by

From the University of Utah and the “science is not settled” department comes this interesting bit of research. Stratosphere targets deep sea to shape climate North Atlantic ‘Achilles heel’ lets upper atmosphere affect the abyss SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 23, … Continue reading →

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Tisdale: The Warming of the Global Oceans – Are Manmade Greenhouse Gases Important or Impotent?

Posted on September 16, 2012 by

Note: this post was two weeks in the making, and well worth your time to read – Anthony Guest post by Bob Tisdale Global sea surface temperatures have warmed over the past 30 years, but there is no evidence the … Continue reading →

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Inconvenient bacteria eats a good portion Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Posted on September 11, 2012 by

From the University of Rochester , those darned bacteria are ruining the eco photo-ops.  Video follows. At least 200,000 tons of oil and gas from Deepwater Horizon spill consumed by gulf bacteria Researchers from the University of Rochester and Texas … Continue reading →

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Fresh water flea panic – so it must be happening in the oceans too

Posted on September 7, 2012 by

From York University   – quite possibly the most poorly written science by press release I’ve seen this year. The leaps of “may” are profound, and the footbal team analogy is designed to elicit sympathy. I suppose if Daphnia populations were … Continue reading →

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Sea Ice Page Upgrades, Observations and Questions

Posted on September 2, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” In making a couple upgrades to the Sea Ice Page, I made a few observations, and a few questions arose. Firstly, several weeks ago the following exchange occurred on a Sea Ice News thread: … Continue reading →

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How ocean currents affect global climate is a question oceanographer may be close to answering

Posted on August 27, 2012 by

  From Florida State University: Kevin Speer has a “new paradigm” for describing how the world’s oceans circulate — and with it he may help reshape science’s understanding of the processes by which wind, water, sunlight and other factors interact … Continue reading →

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One benefit of the midwest drought

Posted on August 27, 2012 by

From Texas A&M University Good news from the bad drought: Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ smallest in years, says Texas A&M expert The worst drought to hit the United States in at least 50 years does have one benefit: it has created … Continue reading →

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Has Trenberth’s missing heat been found? Southern Oceans are losing heat

Posted on August 21, 2012 by

A paper published August 20th in Geophysical Research Letters finds from newly deployed observation systems that the Southern Oceans show an annual net heat loss of -10 Wm-2. Key Points Southern Ocean air-sea fluxes are under-observed, leading to large uncertainty … Continue reading →

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Ocean seawater chemistry linked with periods of global cooling, sharp changes from greenhouse to icehouse climate

Posted on July 21, 2012 by

From the University of Toronto , something quite unexpected. Scientists connect seawater chemistry with climate change and evolution TORONTO, ON – Humans get most of the blame for climate change, with little attention paid to the contribution of other natural … Continue reading →

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Researchers publish results of iron ocean fertilization experiment

Posted on July 18, 2012 by

From the Alfred Wegener Institute and the what took you so long department comes this interesting result. Carbon sequestration via algal blooms that sink to the sea floor after expiring – just add iron. The results, which were published in … Continue reading →

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Viruses linked to coral bleaching

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

I found this interesting: “If viruses are causing disease or bleaching of colonies, it’s also unknown whether this is happening now more than in the past.” Sort of like ocean acidification, they don’t have any long term data. UPDATE: Commenter … Continue reading →

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