# 95 «It is difficult to accept the hypothesis that global warming has stopped while ocean
heat content continues to increase.»
Data from Church et al. (2011) recently updated this picture, showing that total global
heat content continues its steady climb upwards.
How does it continue to snow when the energy is retained and every day
the heat content continues to grow?
Not exact matches
It shows a record warming spell earlier this year, which
continues to drive up the 5 - year average of
heat content, shown in blue.
«The
heat content is just
continuing to pile up,» Greg Johnson, an oceanographer at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, said during the call.
Gavin - Here is Climate Science's follow up to your
continued refusal to update the GISS model comparison with the ocean
heat content change data — http://climatesci.org/2008/05/26/challenge-to-real-climate-on-their-prediction-of-global-warming/.
Global surface temperatures have
continued to rise steadily beneath short - term natural cooling effects, and the rise in global
heat content has not slowed at all.
Expect this battle to
continue to
heat up later this summer as well, when Netflix finally reveals its long - awaited user profiles, which will give kids and parents their own window into Netflix
content, personalized recommendations, and more.
Gavin - Here is Climate Science's follow up to your
continued refusal to update the GISS model comparison with the ocean
heat content change data — http://climatesci.org/2008/05/26/challenge-to-real-climate-on-their-prediction-of-global-warming/.
We
continue to «discover» vast, active volcanoes in the deep oceans, could they not have an impact on ocean
heat content and via that the atmospheric
heat content?
In terms of the so - called «pause», it becomes more and more clear that the current cool phase of the PDO is largely responsible for this «pause», but looking at the
continued rise in ocean
heat content, and the nice job Cowtan & Way have done interpolated Arctic temperatures, we see that the «pause», may have reflected a slowdown in the rise of tropospheric temperatures, but the energy imbalance of the climate system
continues quite strongly.
The fact that you don't understand the mechanisms of how increased CO2 warms the oceans is irrelevant, since the
heat content of the oceans is increasing (and, thus, the planet, as a whole has
continued warming despite your «hiatus»).
Hansen got the warming right in the 1980s, the hockey stick is validated by numerous oth alternative research methods and ocean
heat content and arctic ice
continue to rise and shrink as predicted from the understanding of the physical effect of CO2, as have air temperatures in the area.
Despite the ongoing increase in air's CO2
content, various measures of public health and welfare — life - expectancy,
heat - related mortality, weather - related mortality, air quality, agricultural productivity —
continue to improve.
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.
That should have been: The second thing is that, again using the NODC data, it is unlikely that the
heat content of the 0 - 2000m layer can
continue to....
It is true that the NODC's ARGO - era ocean
heat content (0 - 2000 meters)
continues to warm globally, but always recall that the ARGO data had to be adjusted, modified, tweaked, corrected, whatever, in order to create that warming.
The bottom line is that all available ocean
heat content data show that the oceans and global climate
continue to build up
heat at a rapid pace, consistent with the global energy imbalance observed by satellites.
In the absence of changes to other climate forcings and assuming
continued rise of CO2 AGW would be falsified by falling / static ocean
heat content or falling / static global average temperature.
While the specifics of the calculations of
heat uptake over the past half century
continue to be refined, the sign of the
heat uptake, averaged over this period, seems secure — I am not aware of any published estimates that show the oceanic
heat content decreasing, on average, over these 50 years.
Global surface temperatures have
continued to rise steadily beneath short - term natural cooling effects, and the rise in global
heat content has not slowed at all.
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.
Moreover, the scientists called for
continued support of current and future technologies for ocean monitoring to minimize observation errors in sea surface temperature and ocean
heat content.
How — in your oppinion — can a one time effect cause
continued increase of the
heat content and thus surface temperatures?
The latter
continues a fairly steady upward trend while the surface temperatures and upper ocean
heat content undergo a hiatus in warming after about 2004.
Additional volcanic activity and some solar minimums (Maunder, Dalton)
continued to keep ocean
heat content low, and we did not see the ocean
heat content recover to MWP levels until nearly 1900.
He agrees that the Increase in ocean
heat content shows that the earth has
continued to gain energy during the so called «pause» or «hiatus».
While the increase in global temperature could indeed be stopped within decades by reducing emissions, ocean
heat content will
continue to increase for at least a thousand years after we have reached zero emissions.
During the talk, I showed the following graph of the Earth's total
heat content, demonstrating that even over the last decade when surface temperature warming has slowed somewhat, the planet
continues to build up
heat at a rate of 4 Hiroshima bomb detonations worth of
heat every second.
A look at the Earth's total
heat content clearly shows global warming has
continued past 1998.
1) The
continued transport of warm water from lower latitudes into the Arctic, raising the overall
heat content of all Arctic water.
The pedant in me strikes again: - Eric@Response @ 37 is saying that the
continuing rise in Ocean
Heat Content infers a
continuing global energy imbalance.