Since we have only been taking ARGO measurements for a few years we have no idea what is happening this probably a normal cycle with heat cycling in an out of the oceans as it has done for millions of years
You have to understand that the planet is a closed system. Once heat is trapped it has to go somewhere. As the oceans water heats up, it expands causing rising sea levels. It also increases the melting of ice sheets and glaciers.
Winds help the oceans absorb heat; once the current unusual trade winds return to normal we will see average surface temperatures rising again.
Not all of it is. Some of it is melting the land ice in Greenland and Antartica, raising sea levels. Warming the ocean, even the deep ocean, expands the volume of the water, raising sea levels.
CO2 is making the oceans more acidic.
The surface temperatures are rising, if you don't cherry pick the data. Look at how there can be two periods of "almost no temperature increase," if you cherry pick the periods.
Yes we have a disaster on our hands here. Let us hope the temperatures start going up again soon or GaryK and his fellow travellers are going to have real problems.
How will warmers exist if the darned planet stops warming?
I have it, Rename them "Changers" that covers them for if it cools or warms. Problem solved.
The warming of the oceans tells us that the AGW mechanism is still occurring. What the surface temperatures over the past decade (i.e. 'the pause') tell us is that the surface temperatures haven't changed much in the past decade.
That doesn't mean:
a) AGW is wrong
b) AGW has stopped
c) That surface temperatures won't rise in the future if we keep taking data
How deep are the oceans anyway?
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tec...
"That particular zone in the Earth, the transition zone, might have as much water as all the world's oceans put together."
If water exists in huge volumes beneath Earth's crust, it is bound to have a big impact on the mechanics of volcanoes and the movement of tectonic plates.
"One of the reasons the Earth is such a dynamic planet is the presence of some water in its interior," Pearson said. "Water changes everything about the way a planet works."
CO2 is nothing to worry about!
You're a troll, right? No one is that ignorant of physical reality.
Thats if the missing heat is fake . 0x0=0
It looks like the IPCC models and claims of higher temperatures are then not achievable.
