Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This is a quick post about a coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that had previously not been described. The paper flew by under the radar back in…
Category: Oceans
Big Numbers, Small Numbers
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I read a paper today that said that there are no less than 270,000,000 kilograms of plastic in the ocean, which is about half a…
Arguments For and Against Human-Induced Ocean Warming
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: Corrected the percentage of ocean heat loss though evaporation. Update 2: Added a link to a post by Willis Eschenbach at the end, and…
Climate alarmism secures a set of warning signals
An alarming claim from from the University of Exeter, based entirely on modeling. Study finds early warning signals of abrupt climate change A new study by researchers at the University…
Past Climate Change Was Caused by the Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere, New Rutgers Study Finds
Most of the concerns about climate change have focused on the amount of greenhouse gases that have been released into the atmosphere.But in a new study published in Science, a…
Red or Blue pill? Light sensitive diatoms may hold key to a big portion of the climate puzzle
From the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research: In between red light and blue light: Leipzig researchers discover new functionality of molecular light switches Diatoms play an important role in water…
Fish story: 'Fish moving poleward at rate of 26 kilometers per decade'
From the University of British Columbia via Eurekalert Fish moving poleward at rate of 26 kilometers per decade Large numbers of fish will disappear from the tropics by 2050, finds…
One wonders how many of these newly found thousands of volcanic seamounts are producing CO2 that bubble into the ocean
From the National Science Foundation- Press Release 14-133 New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor Mysteries of the deep come alive as satellite data bring new clues…
Surprising PNAS paper: CO2 emissions not the cause of U.S. West Coast warming
The rise in temperatures along the U.S. West Coast during the past century is almost entirely the result of natural forces — not human emissions of greenhouse gases, according to…
Cause for 'The Pause' #38 – Cause of global warming hiatus found deep in the Atlantic Ocean
From the University of Washington and the department of Trenberth’s missing heat comes a claim that we’ll have to wait another 15 years for global warming to resume. Sounds like…
Irony alert – wind turbine involved in petroleum spill at sea
Hazard to navigation? Danish ‘Safety Ship’ OMS Pollux, leaking oil after colliding with Morecambe Bay wind turbine A SHIP is leaking diesel after crashing into a wind turbine off the…
A benefit to 'climate change' – less dead zones in the ocean
From the University of Washington Ocean’s most oxygen-deprived zones to shrink under climate change As the complex story of climate change unfolds, many of the endings are grim. But there…
NOAA's own trend calculator helps confirm 'the pause' and lack of ocean warming in the 21st century
People send me stuff. Yesterday I got a note suggesting I have a look at what NOAA/NCDC’s “climate at a glance” was showing for trends in the 21st century so…
Deep Oceans Are Cooling Amidst A Sea of Modeling Uncertainty: New Research on Ocean Heat Content
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Two of the…
The Reef Abides … Or Not
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve written a few times on the question of one of my favorite hangouts on the planet, underwater tropical coral reefs. Don’t know if you’ve…
That ocean currents switch flipping thing again
From the National Science Foundation: Press Release 14-081 Ancient ocean currents may have changed pace and intensity of ice ages Climate scientists have long tried to explain why ice-age cycles…
Study: U.S. droughts can be explained by ocean forcing
Sea surface temperature can nudge the atmosphere into conditions, subsequently exacerbated or moderated by atmospheric variability, that can lead to drought. In this paper, authors Richard Seager (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,…
Climate Change: it's the motions of the oceans
From the University of London Scientists discover link between climate change and ocean currents over 6 million years Scientists have discovered a relationship between climate change and ocean currents over…
Warming climates intensify greenhouse gas given out by oceans
From the University of Edinburgh and the department of soda pop science, comes something we already knew. I wonder who approved the grant for this one? Rising global temperatures could…
Now, another previously unknown part of the carbon cycle is known: deep sea fish
From the University of Southampton Deep sea fish remove 1 million tonnes of CO2 every year from UK and Irish waters Deep sea fishes remove and store more than one…
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