Four out of five ARGO data studies now show Ocean Heat Content declining Readers may recall that Dr. Kevin Trenberth said this in one of the Climategate emails: “The fact…
Category: Oceans
Garbage: Another environmental claim proven to be hyped
From Oregon State University: Oceanic “garbage patch” not nearly as big as portrayed in media CORVALLIS, Ore. – There is a lot of plastic trash floating in the Pacific Ocean,…
Tisdale K.O.e's GISS's latest "warmest-year nonsense"
Bob Tisdale writes: I’ve been holding off telling you about my most recent post in hopes that GISS would continue with their warmest-year nonsense. And they did. Using correlation maps, animations,…
Atlantic reversal
From Eurekalert: Earth’s climate change 20,000 years ago reversed the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean Global warming today could have similar effects on ocean currents and could accelerate climate change…
NGO pleads for $15 billion "ocean acidification" monitoring system
Via Eurekalert, from the NGO Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO), a press release that says, “panic! please send money”. Here’s the punch line: The Foundation says the…
Update And Changes To NODC Ocean Heat Content Data
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale, As noted in the post October 2010 Update to NODC Ocean Heat Content Data, the National Oceanographic Data Center has updated itsOCEAN HEAT CONTENT (OHC) data. This…
With a rapid onset – the strongest La Niña since 1955-56
Here’s the view of La Niña today: The Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) by Klaus Wolter, NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most important coupled ocean-atmosphere…
Hydrothermal vents may contribute more to the thermal budget of the oceans than previously assumed
From the Max Planck Society New deep-sea hot springs discovered in the Atlantic Scientists from the MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology…
Ocean color affects tropical cyclone formation
From the AGU: The color of the ocean can alter the frequency of tropical cyclones, according to a recent study. The absorption of sunlight is affected by the concentration of…
AMO+PDO= temperature variation – one graph says it all
Joe D’Aleo and Don Easterbrook have produced a new paper for SPPI. This graph of US Mean temperature versus the AMO and PDO ocean cycles is prominently featured: I particularly…
Examining Trenberth's 'The heat will come back to haunt us sooner or later' statement
Inspired by a WUWT comment from Bill Illis in the Maybe they’ve found Trenberth’s missing heat thread, I’ve elevated this to full post status and provided the relevant graphics from the…
A MUST READ: European climate, Alpine glaciers and Arctic ice in relation to North Atlantic SST record
In my opinion, this essay is a must read because it clearly illustrates correlation between ocean cycles to; Arctic ice loss and gain, glacier advance and retreat, and land surface…
Maybe they've found Trenberth's missing heat
NOAA: Scientists Find 20 Years of Deep Water Warming Leading to Sea Level Rise Sea-level rise has the potential to reshape the coastal environment. Credit: NOAA) Scientists analyzing measurements taken…
New paper in Nature on ocean cycles finally causes recognition in media
Our sceptical connection in Germany, Pierre Gosselin, has taken notice of an article in Der Spiegel that speaks of the link to ocean cycles for climate. Of course we’ve known…
Ocean cooling contributed to mid-20th century global warming hiatus (and so did the PDO)
NOTE: As is typical these days, and in keeping with co-author Phil Jones tradition of not giving up anything, the publicly funded scientific paper is not included with the news,…
The Joy of Innovation
Guest post by Thomas Fuller There would be no global warming without new technology. And that’s not because new technology uses so much energy. It’s because new technology has allowed…
Pielke Senior: Misinformation on the Website “Skeptical Science – Getting Skeptical About Global Warming Skepticism”
By Dr. Roger Pielke Senior There is a weblog called “Skeptical Science – Getting Skeptical About Global Warming Skepticism” that has a misleading post on ocean heat content titled Ocean cooling:…
Nature notices the SH cold: global warming blamed
The money quote: “With such extreme climatic events potentially becoming more common due to climate change…” Maybe next week Nature will notice La Nina: Cold empties Bolivian rivers of fish…
Modeling predicts "ocean acidification mitigation"
From the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the University of Southampton, we have what looks to be a another Willis igniter. Limiting ocean acidification under…
Tisdale on Liu and Curry's 'Accelerated Warming' paper
On Liu and Curry (2010) “Accelerated Warming of the Southern Ocean and Its Impacts on the Hydrological Cycle and Sea Ice” Image above courtesy Dr. Judith Curry The Liu and…
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