We have another study indicating the rapidly worsening situation due to global climate change. A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that the amount of man-made heat energy absorbed by the seas has doubled since 1997. That absorption is much higher than anticipated and portends greater threats to ocean life as well as the continuing worsening of intense storms.
More than 90 percent of the heat energy from man-made global warming goes into the world’s oceans instead of the ground. However, this study used data going back to the British research ship Challenger in the 1870s to track the rate of absorption and rise in temperatures. The results are very alarming. According to the report, the world’s oceans absorbed approximately 150 zettajoules of energy from 1865 to 1997, and then absorbed about another 150 in the next 18 years. To get an idea of the energy level: “if you exploded one atomic bomb the size of the one that dropped on Hiroshima every second for a year, the total energy released would be 2 zettajoules.” Thus, since 1997, Earth’s oceans have absorbed man-made heat energy equivalent to a Hiroshima-style bomb being exploded every second for 75 straight years.
The most alarming aspect is the exponential growth element. The pace of warming is speeding up. Even small increases in the ocean temperature can have massive impacts on ocean life and storms. Moreover, as the oceans warm, they absorb less . . . which means that heat stays in the air and on land surface.
The illustration below shows the increasingly hot areas in red as tracked through the years:
Well that was an unequivocal fail, as predicted, PhillyT. Neither of your links suggests a 97% consensus on ANYTHING, much less a man-made, global warming trend.
I’ll counter-refer you to the disabusing of that mis-used statistic: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303480304579578462813553136
– GLOBAL WARMING –
Right now it is 26 degrees in Washington, DC, 17 degrees tonight.
They are preparing for a Canadian blizzard this weekend.
In Washington, DC – Inhofe with a snowball
https://youtu.be/3E0a_60PMR8
Whom Should I Believe? You or My Lying Eyes?
With all the snow and plunging temperatures they are trying to change the name ‘Global Warming’ to ‘Climate Change’
Daren
Ozone depletion is a major contributor to global warming. The ozone layer mitigates the sun’s effects regarding heating. Thirty-forty years ago it was noticed that large holes in the ozone layer began to appear. The world reacted by banning fluorocarbons and other ozone depleting substances. Obviously not a complete ban as there are a lot of idiot nations out there as well as idiots who dismiss anything the majority of the scientific community comes up with. The ozone layer problem was visible. Since taking action by replacing ozone depleting chemicals with other, probably bad in other ways but benign in the case of ozone depletion, stuff, the ozone layer has been documented visibly to have substantially repaired itself.
This entire ozone exercise supports the theory that humans can make a mess of things but humans can also rectify, to some degree, the damage they do.
Economically no body suffered. Air conditioning continued. It was a good thing. It is still not completely fixed but substantially so.
calypsofacto
One time, just for you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveys_of_scientists%27_views_on_climate_change#STATS.2C_2007
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
There you go.
Patriot:
Thank you for the updated Inhofe-with-a-snowball image. It has nothing to do with climate change, but it let’s everyone know where you’re at.
“Global Warming:” Major snowstorm may threaten DC to NYC
“The potential exists for a major snowstorm to affect more than 50 million across the eastern United States at the end of the week.”
Watch out Al Gore, don’t burn up in that ‘Global Warming’
http://buenavistamall.com/blizzard.jpg
Credit: Ulf Bodin / Flickr
This scientist says ozone depletion is the reason for climate change NOT greenhouse gas. http://ozonedepletiontheory.info/index.html
How you can post such ilke after 2 United Nations top dogs and liar John Kerry have all come out in the past 4 months admitting that global warming/climatechange – whatever you want to call it has all been a scam to ruin the economy and gain control of the world left standing. Why do people like you refuse to go after the original liars and put them in jail – Prince Char;es, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Rockefellers and all the rest? You are just as bad!
Anthropogenic global warming is a lie.
Do we have any science and math buffs in the house? For all serious minds who wish to arrive at the truth, this hard math must be double checked: Vapor Tiger.
http://adrianvance.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-crack-in-chalice.html
From the end,
“Note: To any reader I will send the PDF file of “Vapor Tiger” that explains all this in easily understood text and math. Request from: adrianvance07@gmail.com”
Please, I urge any and all who want to verify through numbers themselves- email Adrian and request a copy of his PDF. Or if you’re feeling rich, you can go buy it on Amazon as an ebook.
As Dog is my witness, climate change is a farce and the whole debate needs to focus on specific causes of pollution such as burning of coal and farting females in Islamic pirate territories. The rise of temperature in Egypt has been substantial in the past six hundred years and it coincides with the rise of Islam where the woman fart so much that passing gas on a bicycle is a proven method of transportation. Fart lighting contests in Egypt are fun and games. Been there, done that, with Bin Laden and my arse still hurts.
PhillyT: please point to a credible 97% climate-scientist consensus regarding man-made global warming. (Hint: It doesn’t exist.)
Daren
I think you are referring to the ‘Tipping Point’, although in a much convoluted manner. I don’t usually take that much time to interpret this stuff.
If 97% of all the structural engineers told you that a bridge was not safe, would you find another route? Would you support fixing the bridge? Or would you pack the family in your van and let Jesus take the wheel?
Conservatives love to say that they are not scientists, but they usually go on to conclude somehow that not being a scientist means you don’t have to listen to scientists. (side note: most of them aren’t doctors either, but that doesn’t stop them from wanting to regulate women’s bodies)
Folks who think that god controls the weather, or that jesus is coming back to fix everything are almost as dangerous as the greedy SOB’s who are doing for climate change what they did for tobacco: hide, obfuscate, lie and steal right up to the very last moment. Unfortunately, this isn’t just millions of people dying from lung cancer, this is the whole planet.
I wonder what’s going on with the Yellowstone Supervolcano?
Isaac tellingly begins his mislabeled “facts” spiel with a statistical fabrication of complete fantasy. That style of ignorant zealotry is what leads many of us who are agnostic about Global Warming Theory to conclude there is more bluster than science behind it. Combining it with paid theatrics of the political class (Gore, et. al.), gov’t handouts, and gov’t mandates leads us to be skeptical and watch our wallets. I’ll continue to look for more than the paucity of data currently presented which has, to date, mostly contradicted the IPCC models. This study is another interesting data point, but mostly cryptic in what it portends for the future; basically, another Rorschach test for one’s preexisting beliefs on the subject.
However:
Climate change is real alright, but to the extent it is caused by humans or volcanos or sunspots, that is not quite so clear.
And that matters. If CO2 emissions from humans is NOT the main cause, then best to spend money on REMEDIATION and quit wasting effort on limiting the lesser factors leading to change.
It may be irreversible with or without human factors. Best then to focus on resettling the global coastal populations. But, what do the rich care, they are mostly poor anways. Let them drown is probably the attitude.
Kind of like how Soros sends all the lumpenproles into a tizzy, which makes them act stupidly and burn their own nests– when he could have tried to teach them how to behave better in the first place.
Soros and the Kroch brothers are two sides of the same “coin.” Filthy lucre!
Well said Darren!! Nonlinear parabolic weather cockups are what is likely in store.
But the Kroch brothers say it aint so!
What has the population done since 1995. The U.S. has lessen pollution since 1995, seems to me the Chinese are the big time polluters so you better get your a$$ over there and do something about them. Seeya
Doubter Dave, when the climate change deniers are off the oil companies teats and the religious cuckoos teats, I might listen to their research.
Nick, saying that economics is a fundamental force of nature does not mean it won’t kill all of us. It may be that economics would say to continue using fossil fuels is the smart economical thing to do, but at what price? If the real price of using fossils fuels was realized, they would not be the best choice, but we fool ourselves by not accounting for the real cost.
Yes Lisa, the Earth will go on, but a lot of the life on it may not, including us. Will the planet adapt? Sure it will. The real question is, will we? So far, I don’t think we are going to make it. As Issac points out, 90+% agree that we are causing global climate chgange, so to pick out the few who say otherwise is cherry picking your information. That is dishonest. I just don’t understand why people seek out and believe the few who deny the truth on whatever basis is beyond me. We need to seek the truth, not the crackpots.