Yet
Another Large Jump in Ocean Warming
20
January, 2014
The
fourth-quarter result for
0-700 meter ocean heat content
is in already, and it shows another large increase from a year
earlier.
The
12-month increase is 2.38 × 1022
Joules, the largest jump since 3Q 2006. It works out to 1.48 W/m2
over the Earth's entire surface area.
A
better indicator will be, as usual, the 0-2000 m OHC value,
compromising the top half of the World Ocean.
Given
this, though, it's difficult to understand Judith Curry's recent
statement
to the Senate EPW Committee that:
The
stagnation in greenhouse warming observed over the past 15+ years
demonstrates that CO2 is not a control knob on climate variability on
decadal time scales.
Sure,
climate models could do a better job of simulating short-term surface
temperatures -- though long-term projections are far more important
than short-term projections
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