Now the story moves on. Where does all that head go. There is going to be a long term effect. To those that think we should do nothing.... what is the contingency plan when the energy in the ocean starts to re-emit of it reaches it's capacity.
Do we continue do SFA when the evidence is growing that we are building up a energy/heat time bomb. What a fucking stupid species (colectively) we are.
....They add that the warm water won’t hide below the surface forever.....
Global warming hasn’t stopped, the heat’s just HIDING deep within the Pacific Ocean, claim scientists
IPCC report last year said temperatures have barely risen in past 15 years
This is despite more greenhouse gases being pumped into atmosphere
New study claims winds in Pacific have driven heat deep underwater
This has had a net effect of cooling surface temperatures by 0.1°C and 0.2°C
Read more here as the full article has many graphics:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... z2szrCW2Tf
Powerful winds in the Pacific Ocean, which have driven surface heat deep underwater, could be the reason behind the current ‘pause’ in global warming.
This is according to a joint Australian and U.S. study which has looked at why there has been a slowdown in the planet’s global average surface temperature over the past decade.
Their research shows that trade winds in central and eastern parts of the Pacific have caused warm surface water to sink to the ocean's depths, reducing the amount of heat in the atmosphere.
This is despite the fact concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have increased to levels that are unprecedented in at least 800,000 years
The latest study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, said stronger Pacific trade winds- had made ocean circulation at the Equator speed up.
This schematic shows the trends in temperature and ocean atmosphere circulation in the Pacific over the past two decades. Colour shading shows observed temperature trends (°C per decade) during 1992-2011 at the sea surface. The bold and thin arrows show an overall acceleration of the Pacific Ocean moving warm, surface waters (indicated by the blue arrow) to below 700 metres beneath the surface
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The IPCC does not expect the hiatus to last and has said temperatures from 2016-35 were likely to be 0.3-0.7°C warmer than in 1986-2005.
‘More than 93 per cent of the warming of the planet since 1970 is found in the ocean,’ said Steve Rintoul at Australia's CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research and lead author of the chapter on oceans in the IPCC's latest climate report.
‘If we want to understand and track the evolution of climate change we need to look in the oceans. The oceans have continued to warm unabated, even during the recent 'hiatus' in warming of surface temperature.’
Climate scientists say such pauses in warming occur regularly throughout history and can last for up to 20 years – but cannot be predicted.
They add that the warm water won’t hide below the surface forever. Scientists believe that it may re-emerge later or affect other climate indicators, such as sea level or ocean circulation.
