RollingThunder
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Oh, Walleyed, you swallow the lies and propaganda that your puppet masters spoon into your head and ignore the testimony of the actual scientists. You are such a retard!!!
New Evidence on Warming Ocean
NOAA
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
(Government publication - free to reproduce)
Recent studies show the worlds ocean is heating up as it absorbs most of the extra heat being added to the climate system from the build-up of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. In fact, more than 90 percent of Earths warming during the past 50 years has gone into the ocean. Warming has been observed even in the bottom-most reaches of the ocean, but most of the heat is accumulating in the oceans near-surface layers.
The implications of a warmer ocean are considerable. First, because water expands as it warms, ocean heating is responsible for much of the sea-level rise weve observed. Further, the ocean will hold the vast amount of heat it has accumulated because it warms and cools much more slowly than air. This makes sense if youve ever noticed how much quicker it is to heat the air in a room than the water in a swimming pool and how much longer the pool holds its heat.
The colors on the map (top) show where and how much the heat content within the upper 2,460 feet (750 m) of the ocean had changed in 2009, compared to the average from 1993 to 2009. NOAA and NASA scientists produced the map using a combination of data from satellite altimeters and within-ocean thermometer readings collected by Argo floats and shipboard measurements. Scientists use these measurements to better understand the oceans roles in Earths climate system, and to help them more accurately predict future weather and climate patterns. Red and blue areas show where the upper oceans warmth rose or fell from its average value by as much as 3 billion Joules per square meter compared to the average thats enough energy in one square meter alone to power a 100-watt light bulb continuously for nearly a year. White areas indicate little or no change; gray areas represent land.
The solid black trend line on the graph (bottom) shows the oceans yearly average heat content from 1955 through 2009, as compared to the long-term baseline (gray line at zero). The thin red line shows the running 3-month average over that same span. Though there are year-to-year ups and downs, notice there has been a significant overall increase in the oceans heat content over the last 55 years. That ocean heat content change equals the energy needed to power eleven 1200-watt hair dryers for all 6.9 billion people now on the planet continuously over those same 55 years. It is also about 2.5 billion times greater than the energy released by the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
For more information, please see the NOAA 2009 Annual State of the Climate Report, published on July 28, 2010. A NOAA press release about the report is also available.
Top map courtesy of Gregory Johnson and John Lyman, NOAA / JIMAR, and Josh Willis, NASA. Trend graph courtesy of Sydney Levitus, NOAA. Dot chart courtesy of Sara Veasey, NOAA.
I hardly consider NOAA to be a BS source.
Well good! Glad to hear you agree with the findings of the NOAA scientists that I just cited. LOL. Too bad you're still too retarded to understand the difference between what the NOAA and NASA scientists actually report and the cherry-picked, spun-up distortions of their reports that you scrape off of those idiotic denier cult blogs that are your primary sources.
Here's another report you should like from the climate scientists at NOAA that refutes the idiotic premise of this thread.
Past Three Decades Warmest on Record
NOAA
Friday, September 3, 2010
(Government publication - free to reproduce)
Fossil fuels contain the carbon drawn out of the atmosphere by land and ocean plants over millions of years. More than a century ago, Earth scientists speculated that burning those fuelsreturning that huge pool of carbon to the air so rapidlywould warm the climate.
In the past few decades, the evidence that those century-old speculations were true has become unmistakable. The maps above show where temperatures each decade from 1850-2000 were above (red) or below (blue) the 1961-1990 average. Places with no data are colored gray.
Averaging temperature anomalies over time spans of decades or longer is a better way to understand how climate is changing than comparing individual years. Thats because even with global warming from greenhouse gases, natural climate patterns or events (such as El Niño cycles or massive volcanic eruptions) are the main reason why any individual year is warmer or cooler than another.
The most obvious trend revealed by these maps is the shift to the warm (red) end of the color scale in recent decades. In the earlier maps in the series, regional-scale warm anomalies come and go from one decade to the nextwhat you would expect from natural climate variability. Toward the end of the series, however, the warmer-than-average conditions become more widespread, persistent, and intensewhat you would expect from human-caused global warming.
In the State of the Climate in 2009 report, an international team of climate scientists concluded, Each of the last three decades was warmer than all earlier decades in the instrumental record and each set a new and statistically significant record, culminating in the 2000s, which was the warmest decade of all.