After 150 years of warming, the oceans have called a timeout and decided to stop warming for a while.
The rate of global warming may be kept flat for about a decade, even in the middle of long-term warming, because Earth’s oceans can absorb enough heat to temporarily keep it from skyrocketing, U.S. researchers say.
Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research say ocean layers below 1,000 feet can hold enough of the “missing heat” to hold global air temperatures steady during these periods, and such intervals can be expected during the next century, even as the trend toward overall warming persists, an NCAR release said Monday.
NCAR’s top climate scientists seem to be unaware that temperatures have already been declining for over a decade. They also seem to be unaware that physical law doesn’t change to meet their own funding needs.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2001/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2001/trend
…if the oceans, deep or not, were holding heat
it would get hotter you numbskulls….
there I feel much better now
Well, GEEE, I guess CO2 ain’t all that important afterall
Hmmmmmmmmmm
[nothing to see here - - - move along]
CO2 has been working soooo hard it had to take a vacation!
As a scientist of many years in chemistry, I am appalled and amazed at the poor educational state of scientists who have achieved the upper echelons in government organizations. I guess everything governmental has gone downhill in a barrel. It can be explained, I guess, that the highest figureheads don’t allow anyone smarter than them get hired. And so, the downward spiral proceeds.
The Peter Principle at its best!
Peter Principle Management is the concept that in bureaucratic organizations, new employees typically start in the lower ranks, but when they prove to be competent in the task to which they are assigned, they get promoted to a higher rank, generally management. This process of climbing up the hierarchical ladder can go on indefinitely, until the employee reaches a position where he or she is no longer competent. At that moment the process typically stops, since the established rules of bureaucracies make it very difficult to “demote” someone to a lower rank, even if that person would be a much better fit and happier in a non-management role. The net result of this principle is that most of the management levels of a bureaucracy will be filled by incompetent people, who got there because they were quite good at doing different (and usually, but not always, easier) work than the work they are currently expected to perform
http://www.envisionsoftware.com/articles/Peter_Principle.html
That’s the way it used to be, except for some that figured out a way to stay where they loved to be. so good stuff still got done.
I think nowadays, the competent ones do not even get in the queue, unless they play dumb and tow the party line. The next level people don’t risk getting upstaged by hiring bright people.
It is instructive to Google any government official who makes any scientific claim. Nine times out of ten they have no scientific training whatsoever. Check out people like Waxman, Markey, Boxer, Clinton, Prince Charles, and hundreds more. Of course you can’t find out much about Obama because he’s had his academic records sealed and hidden
I suspect they’re going to need more than a Decade before the next warming cycle begins.
“missing heat” don’t you just hate it when that happens. Heat going deep into the ocean and “hiding” oh my. Try this for size, Thr ocean like all liquids has “surface tension” i.e. a film over the surface. The surface tension blocks all physical heat from entering the ocean, only the sun’s radiation can penetrate the surface tension. The result of this is what is happening now, the sun is having a nap and our temperatures are dropping andwe are having very cold winters despite rising co2. Trenberth’s heat is not “missing” because it never existed in the first place. The sun and the oceans cotrol our climate, the atmosphere is just piggy in the middle and has minimal influence. The whole idea of heat “hiding” they must be joking.
You are a bit simplistic here. It’s not surface tension that inhibit the absorption of IR radiation, it’s that IR is absorbed in a few microns and that energy is lost by evaporation with associated latent heat.
You are right in that it’s the short wave energy that heats the ocean and there is a reduction of solar irradiance. However, the real factor is the increase change of cloud cover with decreased solar magnetic field and the change of cloud albedo with change of aerosol pollution. The latter is heavily influenced by phytoplankton growth kinetics and the major aspect of that is iron from occluded melting ice.
This factor works in two ways. The 70 year Arctic melt freeze cycle is controlled by this widespread reduction of cloud albedo as phytoplankton blooms proliferate, also from dimethyl sulphide released from melting ice. The 0°C water is then warmed up more efficiently then sinks [inverted density change below 4°C]. It is this which is causing the real increased heat transfer to the deeps but it’ll turn off soon. [The same mechanism at the end of ice ages causes the deep ocean currents to restart.]
Basically, the climate modellers have failed because of the false physics imposed on the discipline by the new Lysenkoists [Hansen, Trenberth etc.], but they are still scientists and learning. When the kick out the no-goods, science can take over.
I’m not a scientist but I remember my physics. How can these scam artists continue to publish rubbish and still be taken seriously? Who protects them?
Will the belt tightening in the US result in less funding for Climate Science? Surely there are some politicians looking at cutting expenditure on a subject the majority of voters know is crap.
The desperation to provide an answer to the non-heating and “missing heat” that does not invalidate the CAGW meme is clear. The cognitive dissonance works.
In the former Soviet controlled republics there was a very similar problem facing the writers. They were well paid, socially rewarded, and could write as they wish – if what they wrote spoke well of the Communist life-style. They had to lie, in other words. As time went on they became more and more depressed.
Look to depression in the Climate boys. Probably first in the Gore camp.
This is a cut above the Guardian crew, who won’t even give up the idea that it isn’t warming.
Whoops. This was meant as a standalone comment.
Hey Real-science
Q) Why do you hide who owns and operates this website from whois?
A) Because we are funded by exxon-mobil to spread ignorance and doubt and we don’t want people to know this is an exxon-mobil site
First time I ever seen someone register through domains by proxy. What a great tool to hide your identity, and the truth.
Take your meds. i don’t get any compensation for doing this, other than a pittance for advertising. You are an idiot.
Ha! Regurgitating the vomit spewed by Romm, Huffington, Greenpeace and Grist. And he considers Steve a puppet! ROTFLMAO! Kevin is a programmable zombie for these anti-Science, anti-American, anti-Human cesspools of propaganda.
Steve is not funded by big oil, you ignorant eco-nut. Hey Kevin, speaking of WhoIs, how about you identify yourself so that Steve has a name to put on the paperwork when he files a lawsuit for defamation. Either that or offer some evidence for your idiotic allegation.
Big oil funding is not necessary to combat and destroy your AGW fantasy hoax. The natural climate and weather can defeat you all by itself. But about your cognitive dissonance: what does it feel like to spend time on websites funded by George Soros? Do you shower often?