Not exact matches
The big difference between the last intergalcial period and now is that now the air /
ocean temp is rising year round
forced inextricably by the relentless pressure of CO2.
What does this tell us about the underlying
forcing causing the warmer
temps duirng periods in which the atmosphere is in general getting less energy from the
ocean?
The study does not show a rise in
ocean temp so much as it attempts to model the variation of
ocean temperature in order to pick out the
forcings.
Now if Galactic radiation, solar output, and Cloud formations due to changes in those «flows» can be determined to
force change in
Ocean Surface
temps the drive train for our climate may be found...
A different understanding doesn't stop melting in the arctic, droughts, shifting climate zones, increased
ocean temps and sea level rise or the need to anticipate changes these realities will
FORCE on society, changes that can't be made quickly.
CO2 does not warm the
oceans independent of the indirect downward longwave radiation mechanism (increased skin
temp forces a «deepening» of the convective
temp gradient) and the direct method of surface layer mixing.
I thought the idea was that an increase in the atmospheric radiative
forcing from above would warm the skin layer a bit, reducing the
temp gradient to the water layer below, thus impeding the transport of absorbed solar energy up and back out of the
ocean, and thus making it pile up to increase OHC.
A MUCH MORE complete exposition of the observation issues (land
temp,
ocean teamp, OHC, etc and complete open documentation for
forcing datasets