Also global heat content of the ocean (which constitutes 85 % of the total warming) has continued to rise strongly in this period, and ongoing warming of the climate system as a whole is supported by a very wide range of observations, as reported in the peer - reviewed scientific literature.
Not exact matches
I
also tried to find an estimate of the net effect of hurricane activity on upper ocean
heat content; there are some reports on individual hurricanes (http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/cyclone/data/pubs/Opal.pdf) but I couldn't find any
global estimates.
The influence of anthropogenic forcing has
also been detected in various physical systems over the last 50 years, including increases in
global oceanic
heat content, increases in sea level, shrinking of alpine glaciers, reductions in Arctic sea ice extent, and reductions in spring snow cover (Hegerl et al., 2007).
He is
also correct that
global heat content of the ocean is a huge part of warming or the lack thereof, but his next statement is not entirely correct.
Several recent studies have
also concluded that it is necessary to include data from the deep ocean in order to reconcile
global heat content and the TOA energy imbalance, which DK12 failed to do.
If the equator shifts north, that is amplified,
global warming, if it shifts south that is
also amplified,
global cooling, but total
global heat content doesn't change that much unless the shift is prolonged.
I'm very convinced that the physical process of
global warming is continuing, which appears as a statistically significant increase of the
global surface and tropospheric temperature anomaly over a time scale of about 20 years and longer and
also as trends in other climate variables (e.g.,
global ocean
heat content increase, Arctic and Antarctic ice decrease, mountain glacier decrease on average and others), and I don't see any scientific evidence according to which this trend has been broken, recently.
A change in ocean
heat content can
also alter patterns of ocean circulation, which can have far - reaching effects on
global climate conditions, including changes to the outcome and pattern of meteorological events such as tropical storms, and
also temperatures in the northern Atlantic region, which are strongly influenced by currents that may be substantially reduced with CO2 increase in the atmosphere.