Scientists have linked the long - term trend
towards rising ocean temperatures to fossil fuel burning.
Not exact matches
However, DiNezio's own modelling work also suggests that ENSO will continue in a warmed world: although the
rise in
temperatures pushes the Pacific
towards a permanent El Niño, the
ocean pushes back.
When you say «If the
oceans are warming at all, or if the net ice melting is positive, we are not in equilibrium» it suggests that you see
temperatures inexorably
rising towards an equilibrium.
The «unnatural» warming so far seen is however trended strongly to the alterations to the planetary surface by Humanity over the past 400 years and the rebalance
towards greater kinetic induction (in its cumulative effect) is now producing observable alterations not only to the Land Surface median
Temperature, but to the
Ocean (vie conduction / convection) and a still unconfirmed claim of a small overall
rise in Median Atmospheric
Temperature, which if «true» would place the Planetary Biosphere on the «Human Population Plot» with regard to «warming».
While the
rising temperatures of global warming may be pushing the atmosphere
towards greater extremes of weather - with all the destructive potential that implies - that extra heat is also having an effect on the
oceans.
Towards the end of his presentation he added: «Some research suggests global warming is linked to
rising ocean and sea surface
temperatures in the tropical Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico — which may have an impact on hurricane intensity.
They found that global fisheries catches were increasingly dominated by warm - water species as a result of fish migrating
towards the poles in response to
rising ocean temperatures.