Ahhh, let’s blame the oceans.
‘Huge amounts of heat – equivalent to the power of 150 billion electric kettles – are being continuously absorbed by the deep ocean, which could explain why global warming has “paused” over the past 10 to 15 years,” says this article in The Independent.
“After a period of rapid temperature increases during the 1980s and 1990s there has been a significant slow-down since the turn of the century, leading some sceptics to claim that global warming has stopped.
“The global average surface temperature has not increased substantially over the last 10 to 15 years,” admits Professor Rowan Sutton, a climate scientist at Reading University.
“The problem for the Met Office is to explain why the rate of increase in global temperatures has declined in recent years while concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have continued to accelerate. Sceptics claim that this shows there is not a strong link between the two, whereas climate scientists insist that rising carbon dioxide concentrations are largely responsible for the rise in global temperatures.”
“It looks like the Earth is continuing to accumulate energy but it looks like it is being re-arranged and hidden from view,” said Professor Stephen Belcher, head of the Met Office Hadley Centre. The excess heat trapped by carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is being transferred from the atmosphere to the oceans.
Ahhh yes, let’s blame the oceans.
“Measurements from hundreds of ocean floats released over the last decade, which descend and drift to depths of up to 2,000 metres, show that huge amounts of heat from the sea surface is now being transferred to the deep ocean, the scientists say. The heat is being transported down to deeper layers that cannot be monitored by satellites.
“Observations of ocean heat content and of sea-level rise suggest that the additional heat from the continued rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations has been absorbed in the ocean and has not been manifest as a rise in surface temperature,” the Met Office says in one of its three reports into the global warming pause.
The pause, however, is unlikely to change the predictions over the future course of global warming.
Of course the pause not going to change their predictions. Why should it? They’ve got a cash cow going here.
But I’m wondering how you heat the oceans 2,000 meters down (more than two miles down!) without heating the surface.
Would you try to heat your swimming pool by blowing air across it? Good luck with that one.
Have you ever tried to heat a pot of water from the top? Good luck with that one, too.
No, that heat has to be coming from below, from underwater volcanoes, just as I’ve been saying all along. (See “Not by Fire but by Ice,” especially the chapter entitled “Fish Stew.”
Thanks to Dr Bill Wilden for this link
“Heating the DEEP OCEANS…..now where have I heard that before?” asks Dr. Bill. “Oh yea, underwater volcanic activity.
But no, it’s really magically transferred to the deep by a mysterious force.
When will it ever end?”