In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge
our present global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.
William M. Gray wrote... I judge
our present global ocean circulation to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.
Not exact matches
If there's anything more complicated than the
global forces of thermal expansion, ice sheet melt and
ocean circulation that contribute to worldwide sea - level rise, it might be the forces of real estate speculation and the race - based historical housing patterns that color
present - day gentrification in Miami.
Nevertheless, the risk of triggering
ocean circulation changes as a result of
global warming can not be ruled out at
present (which is why you use the word «probably»), and it needs to be studied and discussed.
Here, we
present an explanation for time - invariant land — sea warming ratio that applies if three conditions on radiative forcing are met: first, spatial variations in the climate forcing must be sufficiently small that the lower free troposphere warms evenly over land and
ocean; second, the temperature response must not be large enough to change the
global circulation to zeroth order; third, the temperature response must not be large enough to modify the boundary layer amplification mechanisms that contribute to making φ exceed unity.