Over the past quarter-century, Earth’s oceans have retained 60 percent more heat each year than scientists previously had thought, said Laure Resplandy, a geoscientist at Princeton University who led the startling study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The difference represents an enormous amount of additional energy, originating from the sun and trapped by Earth’s atmosphere — the yearly amount representing more than eight times the world’s annual energy consumption.
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The higher-than-expected amount of heat in the oceans means more heat is being retained within Earth’s climate system each year, rather than escaping into space. In essence, more heat in the oceans signals that global warming is more advanced than scientists thought.
“We thought that we got away with not a lot of warming in both the ocean and the atmosphere for the amount of CO2 that we emitted,” said Resplandy, who published the work with experts from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and several other institutions in the United States, China, France and Germany. “But we were wrong. The planet warmed more than we thought. It was hidden from us just because we didn’t sample it right. But it was there. It was in the ocean already.”
Worse than we thought is actually an understatement.
Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming
The study
Don’t worry.
The deniers will let us know that it’s not warming at all, and besides the warming is no big deal. Sea level isn’t rising at all, and besides, the rise is no big deal. Glaciers aren’t melting at all, and besides, the melting is no big deal.
It’s like the old joke about the resort: the food is terrible, and the portions are so small!
Right. And the oceanic heat sink is actually going to stimulate the growth of coral reef.
Worse than we thought is actually an understatement.
Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming
The study
And remember. It’s not warming, but the warming that’s not happening is going to be awesome because I get chilly in the winter.
"Weather != climate." No, but weather patterns = climate.
Worse than we thought is actually an understatement.
Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming
The study
Don’t worry.
The deniers will let us know that it’s not warming at all, and besides the warming is no big deal. Sea level isn’t rising at all, and besides, the rise is no big deal. Glaciers aren’t melting at all, and besides, the melting is no big deal.
It’s like the old joke about the resort: the food is terrible, and the portions are so small!
The oceans are warming. And no surprise to me, as the sun is the driving force for the earths heat, and is most prominent in the oceans. Consider also the very long ECS time of the solar heat.
Lol...”it’s not the CO2; it’s the sun.”
That’s been debunked, gentlemen. :lol:
Lol...”it’s not the CO2; it’s the sun.”
That’s been debunked, gentlemen. :lol:
Oh right. I forgot:
It’s not warming, and if it is, it’s no big deal. And it’s all the sun’s fault anyway, or China’s fault.
If you examine the links in #9 you will find the "recent" result was anticipated years ago, and the solar cause was well-documented.
No it hasn't. maybe in your dreams, but not by science.
...and thoroughly debunked.
This is ignorance on parade. TSI is not the important measure.
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