If La Nina / El Nino can
affect global air temperatures in a period of a few years, than other changes in ocean currents (driven by AGW) can affect global atmospheric heat content in a few years.
Not exact matches
Heat waves associated with rising
global temperatures will dramatically
affect air travel later this century, occasionally triggering flight delays and bumping passengers and cargo, a new study suggests.
Because
air temperature significantly alters atmospheric dynamics, which in turn
affects moisture transport, scientists speculate that this increase of high altitude moisture may be tied to
global warming.
Now I've seen mentions that (strong) El Nino years will make the
global annual average higher — e.g. 1998 was so warm partly because of El Nino, and that this is due to the fact that sub-surface warmer water is brought up and allowed to
affect the
air temperature.
And if decreasing carbon emissions turns out not to
affect global temperatures, at least it will free us from petroleum dependency and clear up the
air.
A
global - scale instrumental
temperature record that has not been contaminated by (a) artificial urban heat (asphalt, machines, industrial waste heat, etc.), (b) ocean -
air affected biases (detailed herein), or (c) artificial adjustments to past data that uniformly serve to cool the past and warm the present... is now available.
There has been no increase in
global air temperature since 1998, which was
affected by the oceanographic El Niño event.
However, despite all that, the weather systems combined with the hydrological cycle and the
global air circulation guided by the sea surface
temperatures do provide reasonable overall stability for eons at a time by neutralising many potentially disruptive natural and biologically induced variables
affecting air temperature.
People don't wake up and say «oh gee, that
global average
air temperature that's gone up by point zero one of degree from last year has really
affected my life».
This bend in the jet draws warm
air poleward and cool
air southward without greatly
affecting the
global mean
temperature.
ii) Changes in the
air alone can not
affect the
global equilibrium
temperature because of oceanic dominance that always seeks to maintain sea surface and surface
air equilibrium whatever the
air tries to do.