Consider that just moving some of
the already warmer surface water to depth (while some upwelling of colder water occurs elsewhere as a compensation) results in an increasing heat content at depths while * simultaneously * producing a decrease in heat content at the surface.
Not exact matches
And around Antarctica, where even the
surface ocean
water is
already quite cold and dense, some of that
water in the ocean depths, which is also carbon rich, eventually
warmed enough so that it became less dense than the
water above it.
Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the
surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon,
already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced
warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean
water known as the Western Pacific
Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.
Without the periodic upwelling of cold
water associated with La Niña,
warm water would cover most of the
surface of the Pacific, releasing its heat into an atmosphere
already warming because of climate change.
Invasive species are entering the region with or without shipping, says Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado;
warming of the Arctic Ocean's
surface temperatures has
already increased mixing with foreign
waters and all the microbes they contain.
* The Global Coral Reef Alliance says global
warming of
surface waters is
already killing large amounts of coral.
Apologies if this has
already been stated, but my view on decreased Arctic ice cover is: - 1, as Judith pointed out, when ice is at a minimum the sun is
already so low in the sky that there is no noticeable change to albedo, 2 when there is ice cover
warm water is kept at depth by differences in salinity, When there is open
water, storms mix the haline layers bringing
warm water to the
surface where it can more readily radiate it's energy into outer space.
The only way CO2 could absorb any more IR than it is
already absorbing is if 1) the
surface started re-emitting more IR, which could only happen if more sunlight reached the
surface, or 2) atmospheric
water vapor levels dropped, freeing up more IR to be absorbed by CO2, in which case,
warming would not occur, because that radiation was
already being absorbed by the
water vapor that disappeared.
The IPCC has
already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has
warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average
surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global
warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh
water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.