It seems the alarming story of “Ocean extinction has started in our time” making the rounds of the alarmist blogs and gullible media is nothing more than an unpublished, unchecked…
Category: Oceans
Tipping points – easy come, easy go
Yesterday, I highlighted an alarming story from the University of Exeter and East Anglia that saw tipping points behind every rock and tree. Now today comes a peer reviewed study…
New WUWT Oceanic Oscillation Page – With Link Tutorial
Introducing WUWT’s newest addition, the Oceanic Oscillation Page, which includes graphs and graphics,on Oceanic Oscillations including the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), El Niño/La Niña and the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation (AMO).…
Evidence that early Antarctic Circumpolar Current development affected global climate
From NSF: Significant Role of Oceans in Onset of Ancient Global Cooling Aerial view of the drillship JOIDES Resolution. Credit and Larger Version May 26, 2011 Thirty-eight million years ago,…
Atlantic 'conveyor belt' current – still going strong
From the American Geophysical Union: Study suggests no slowing of Atlantic ‘conveyor belt’ current The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), which carries warm water to high northern latitudes near the…
Technical paper training for "Hansen's Bulldog"
Bob Tisdale responds to Grant Foster aka “Tamino”, self proclaimed “Hansen’s Bulldog” (now oddly deleted but available at the Wayback machine via this link). The difference between Mr. Tisdale and…
A reader question on OHC – discussion
This comment seemed like a useful question to discuss, so I’m elevating it to post status A. Patterson Moore says: May 11, 2011 at 6:04 am I see ocean heat…
The GISS divergence problem: Ocean Heat Content
Bob Tisdale points out the reality versus projection disparity. It would seem, that we have a GISS miss by a country mile. Where’s the heat? – Anthony First-Quarter 2011 Update…
Nenana 2011 Ice Classic result
In case you missed it, the official result for 2011 is in: The Tanana River officially broke up on May 4, 2011 at 4:24 PM and here’s the clock Here’s…
"Profound" climate variability engine found – leakage around the Cape of Good Hope "could mean that current IPCC model predictions for the next century are wrong"
From the National Science Foundation: Threading the Climate Needle: The Agulhas Current System Increased Agulhas “leakage” significant player in global climate variability Additional photos here The Agulhas Current which runs…
Study of the East Greenland Current finds no trend
Current research for the East Greenland Current (EGC) has been focused on freshwater fluxes from melting ice. Because the EGC runs through the Greenland Sea and eventually through the Labrador…
On ocean heat content, Pinatubo, Hansen, Bulldogs, cherrypicking and all that
Self proclaimed “Hansen’s Bulldog” (now oddly deleted but available at the Wayback machine via this link), the blogger known as “Tamino” loves to bloviate his views about imagined cherrypicking whenever…
Ocean cold/warm water fronts mix CO2 much more than previously thought
From the University of Washington via Eurekalert Data catches up with theory: Ocean front is energetic contributor to mixing Wind blowing on the ocean is a crucial factor mixing the…
Energy content, the heat is on: atmosphere -vs- ocean
Jeff wrote to me with this article which visually illustrates his point quite well. Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. has given his take on it here, saying: The post on The…
ARGO-Era NODC Ocean Heat Content Data (0-700 Meters) Through December 2010
Guest post by Bob Tisdale: NOTE: This post contains 5 .gif animations that total 10MB. (below the continue reading line) Have patience. They may take a while to load. This…
A microbe albedo effect for ocean sunlight absorption
From MIT, something surprising. Like alignment of iron atoms in a magnet, microbes in seawater can align and change the albedo. It makes me wonder how much seawater can be…
NOAA's compendium of climate catastrophe
From the NOAA “Oceans and Human Health Initiative” website and press release, comes this warning that the algae, Moroccan dust, desertification, bacteria, bad seafood, heavy rainfall, old sewers, climate change…
Ocean ridges and climate models
From USGS, who is now apparently in the climate business, because mapping and earthquakes are sooo 20th century. New Discoveries Improve Climate Models Underwater Ridges Impact Ocean’s Flow of…
"…ocean fertilization to affect climate have a low chance of success"
Remember this story? Ocean iron fertilization CO2 sequestration experiment a blooming failure. Well it seems there is more bad news. A new summary for policymakers suggests the whole idea of ocean…
Ocean Acidification: Chicken Little of the Sea Strikes Again
Guest Post by David Middleton Introduction As global warming morphs into climate change and global climate disruption and anthropogenic CO2 emissions give way to stochastic variability, clouds, the Sun, cosmic rays and our…
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