Three years
of ocean cooling would certainly not have saved the world from warming.
I also found an interesting post and response that discussed fresh water possibly being behind sea level not behaving in a
way ocean cooling would indicate.
The largest effects of volcanic dimming should be evident in the tropics
where ocean cooling should be taking place.
With
oceans cooling in response to a decrease in solar visible light the amounts of co2 / water vapor will be on the decrease thus making the greenhouse effect less effective going forward.
This post is the Basic version (written by Graham Wayne) of the skeptic argument «
Does ocean cooling prove global warming has ended?».
Kevin Cannon and colleagues propose that a large proportion of Martian clays were formed when the primary crust reacted with a dense steam or supercritical atmosphere of water and carbon dioxide that was outgassed during
magma ocean cooling.
The set of Comments and the original posting on Real Climate have advanced the discussion of the signficance and the issues associated with the observed recent
upper ocean cooling.
The Mg / Ca estimates of
tropical ocean cooling would be nearly impossible to reconcile with a global sensitivity of 2.3 degrees.
The newspaper hosts the Full Comment blog of Lorne Gunther, one of those picking up on short -
term ocean cooling as a reason to question global warming.
Sorry, can't be done;
enough ocean cooling to provoke 3 years of thermal contraction is not caused by a La Nina of a few months.
Dust from the area has been deposited as far as the Caribbean and the Amazon basin and can affect air temperatures,
cause ocean cooling, and alter rainfall amounts.
The decade of 2002 to 2012 was the hottest decade ever recorded
despite ocean cooling in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
Over the period 1984 — 2006 the global changes are 0.28 °C in SST and − 9.1 W m − 2 in Q, giving an effective air — sea coupling coefficient of − 32 W m − 2 °C − 1... [D]
iminished ocean cooling due to vertical ocean processes played an important role in sustaining the observed positive trend in global SST from 1984 through 2006, despite the decrease in global surface heat flux.
And eventually as the far more
massive ocean cooled it would be able to hold more dissolved CO2, so atmospheric CO2 would be drawn down, thus reducing the greenhouse effect further (even more energy out).
As for the deniers who tried to jump on
purported ocean cooling, I suggest you call in to the Rush Limbaugh show, or blog on far right sites.
And Diablo Canyon faced a unique set of problems, including the need in the next few years to replace its old once -
thru ocean cooling system with a far costlier, but more environmentally friendly system, challenges with steam generators and a growing risk of leaks, the long - standing earthquake risk at the site, and cheaper alternatives.
Since storm systems and jet streams in the United States and Europe partially draw their energy from the difference in ocean temperatures, the implication of one patch of
ocean cooling while the rest of the ocean warms is profound.
Chief Hydrologist, you seem unaware that the obsolete Wong and Willis data that you are relying on was erroneous and it was Willis himself who discovered that the
apparent ocean cooling was caused by some very faulty ARGO floats and a residual warm bias in XBT data.