Sentences with phrase «ocean cooling claims»

A recent paper Von Schuckmann & Le Traon (2011) put the kibosh on ocean cooling claims.

Not exact matches

The ongoing difficulty of accurately measuring the Earth's ocean heat content has led to premature «skeptic» claims about ocean cooling.

They are notable for parroting claims that the oceans are cooling and locked into a «negative phase of the PDO» — but let's be honest, they picked that up from NASA's JPL folks...

It is also astounding, all Polar Nations are scrambling as they never had before, to claim vast swats of Ocean now seasonally open for trade, may be this is not damage, per say, but one may only imagine what will come next if the climate doesn't cool down.

Given that the other important variables (sea surface temps, depth of the warm layer, and atmospheric moisture) are all predicted to increase, it seems hard to make the claim that tropical cyclones will be unchanged, just as it seemed unwise to claim that Lyman et al's «Recent cooling of the upper oceans» meant that climate models had fatal flaws.

After a detailed study they conclude the data do not support claims either that the oceans have warmed or cooled in the period 1950 - 2000.

The paper being discussed here makes the claim that the current hiatus in warming is due to the heat going into the Atlantic ocean as the Atlantic ocean is currently in the 30 year cooling phase of it's ~ 60 year warming / cooling cycle.

Heat does transfer from the warmer upper part of the ocean to the deeper cooler part, not the other way around as you claim, but it's balanced by flows of cold water descending into the deep ocean near the poles.

A lot has been made of a paper (Lyman et al, 2006) that appeared last year that claimed that the oceans had, contrary to expectation, cooled over the period 2003 - 2005.

The kind that believes utter nonsense like that the sun is made out of iron, volcanoes emit more C02 than humans, there is no greenhouse effect, that the ocean is cooling, sea - level isn't rising, and that legitimate papers that contradict their wild claims actually support them?

No doubt, if and when the Gulf Stream fails and North Atlantic temperatures plunge (as happened repeatedly during global warming events in the recent history of Earth, due to ice melt flowing into the ocean)-- denialists will claim «global cooling».

I never had heard the claim that the oceans were cooling, so it does not surprise me that they are not.