Not exact matches
Evidence from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows that
global sea levels in the last two
decades are rising dramatically as
surface temperatures warm oceans and...
The higher
sea surface temperatures in the tropics (~ 0.85 K /
decade in recent
decades) have lead to an increase in LW (infrared) radiation, and a loss to space of some 3 W / m2 all over the tropics (50 % of the
surface), which more than halves the — theoretical —
global influence (~ 2.4 W / m2) of all extra GHGs together since the start of the industrial revolution.
We might expect «
global warming» (i.e., an increase in average
surface air temperatures over a few
decades) to lead to a rise in
global mean
sea levels.
However, it has been hypothesized that warmer
global sea surface temperatures can enhance the El Niño phenomenon, and it is also true that El Niños have been more frequent and intense in recent
decades.
3) In my comment https://judithcurry.com/2011/08/04/carbon-cycle-questions/#comment-198992 I have explained that during recent three
decades the increase of CO2 content in atmosphere is controlled by the rising temperature of
global sea surface.
It's obvious that
global sea surfaces simulated by the GISS climate model were warmer than observed and that the GISS model warming rate is too high over the past 3
decades.
Bob Tisdale says, «They increased the trend of the
global sea surface temperature anomalies from 0.088 degrees Celsius per
decade to 0.125 degrees Celsius per
decade or about 42 %.
Knowing that
global atmospheric temperatures are a lagged response to
sea surface temperatures, characterized by the SOI, and that the SOI has moderated over the past
decade, indicates that
global warming will moderate as well.
To me it looks like this shift will be the «team's» new tactic to keep the notion of
global warming alive, especially if the pause in warming (or even slight cooling) of the «globally and annually averaged land and
sea surface temperature» lasts another few
decades.
It shows the
global average
surface temperature (land and
sea) for each
decade since 1880, and the dotted line shows what the 30 - year average was from 1961 - 1990.
Over the past three
decades, changes in [CO2] have increased
global average temperatures (approx. 0.2 °C
decade − 1 [2]-RRB-, with much of the additional energy absorbed by the world's oceans causing a 0.8 °C rise in
sea surface temperature over the past century.