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:
Karen,
I like what you said. This is our one and only planet. We have poisoned the water and the land. I think we have poisoned the air as well in multiple ways. We need to clean it all up. We need to end the idea that cleaning up after yourself is not part of the product life cycle.
There is no planet B as they say.
Even if it turns out that climate change is over-hyped, or under-studied, or incorrectly analyzed (none of which I personally believe), what is it exactly that we have to lose by cleaning up our act? Can anyone explain that to me? What is wrong with having drinkable water, breathable air, beauty in nature, a livable planet? I just don’t get it.
The rise of global temperature will not be stopped. Climate change will produce scarcity of food and water. We will see rationing and food riots in our country. We will also see, and I think demand, an increase in police powers to contend with a rise of lawlessness brought about by the unemployed poor. The DOD will have to expand to engage other countries for their resources. We will change our way of life because we will be forced to. We can make this reality a catastrophe or one that is survivable. It’s up to us.
Patriot, you note that “Global Warming” is alleged while a “Major snowstorm may threaten DC to NYC.” That’s why the Church of Global Warming was renamed the Church of Climate Change — as ghsteele has creatively referred to its adherents. They are constantly modifying their unsubstantiated allegations with new ones. Among their more recent ones is that “Climate Change” also causes extreme cold. In other words, if anything “bad” with the weather happens, blame it on “Climate Change” — too cold, too hot, too humid, too much rain; you name it.
They must be talking global warming since the last ice age? Gee weather changes and there’s nothing you can do about it
In the actual study:
“Our model-based analysis suggests that nearly half of the industrial-era increases in global OHC have occurred in recent decades, with over a third of the accumulated heat occurring below 700 m and steadily rising.”
Their analysis relies on computer models. In addition, it includes measurements taken from the 1800s.
“Observed value and uncertainty estimate12 is based on measurement differences from the Challenger expedition (1872–1876) and Argo (2004–2010)”.
Just keep in mind that we are using a computer model to search for an anthropogenic cause, by comparing data taken in the 1800s with present day. How accurate were the instruments in the 1800s?
And the article states its specific intention is to explain the pause in global warming:
“Recently, as a result of the so-called surface warming hiatus, there has been considerable interest in global ocean heat content (OHC) changes in the deeper ocean, including natural and anthropogenically forced changes identified in observational5, 6, 7, modelling8, 9 and data re-analysis10, 11 studies.”
There have been so many instances of wrongdoing in the climate science field (for instance many stations being moved or missing altogether while allowing their data to be included). It’s made me jaded.
The climate has always changed, and it always will. If we go extinct and another life form rises to dominance, they had better be adaptable because climate change is the norm. During the time of dinosaurs, the Earth was much greener, and dinosaurs roamed what is now Antarctica, granted it was situated a bit closer to the equator.
Maybe people are affecting the climate, maybe not. We do know with certainty that we have polluted our entire ocean, contaminating the food chain with mercury. We pollute our air and water. We de-vegetate the planet, removing the very plant biomass that function as oxygen factories, air scrubbers, and Carbon removal. If we ever manage to damage marine algae and phytoplankton, we could very well engineer our own extinction level event.
But Anthropogenic Climate Change has all the cache. It funds the grants. Has the sex appeal for the actors to patronize. The present dangers get pushed aside while everyone scrambles for the funding, credits, taxes, and business opportunities. Meanwhile, we put warnings against pregnant women and children eating fish.
I recall hearing at a meeting before a massive re-org:
Change is good. Expect more good things.
I am not really making fun of Al Gore or any global warmer pundits, I was just jesting a myself for participating in this debate/debacle today. The times they are a changing.
If I die before I am dead, I pray to Dog to pet my head. For if there is another life, I hope I get there without strife. A B C spells liquor store and out you go Gore.
Gas is under $1/gallon in Michigan. Global Warming fundamentalist heads will be exploding soon.
Someone here was floating the “99%” lie the last time the holy rollers were speaking in tongues on Global Warming. They do love to one up each other. Hell, if your gonna make stats up, go all in, why not 100%??
Yeah, I hear you about the source, PhillyT, but their analysis of how that overhyped and under-scienced poor statistical usage entered the discussion is spot on. You can feel free to find confirmation of that takedown in Forbes or Reuters or RCP or any of about a dozen other sources. Tellingly, on the flip side you’ll find no one supporting the veracity of the statistical methods of that claim.
So anyway, please feel free to say you think MANY climate scientists agree on man-made global warming, or perhaps even a majority. Just please refrain from making the indefensible claim that there’s a 97% consensus. Thus endeth the Public Service Announcement.
issacbasonkavichi,
Hear, hear.
Inhofe is one of those bozos who think that god is managing the thermostat. And everything else. He should he laughed out of town, but they keep voting for him.
Calypso> Really? The WSJ? That bastion of impartial journalism owned by Ruprecht Murduck and subsumed to every CO2 polluting industry in the world? Why would anyone trust them with anything?
Thanks for playing though. I guess we’re back to our corners…
“Every major computer model is now forecasting double-digit snowfall totals for the D.C. area Friday and Saturday.”
It’s getting hot in here! Everybody take off your clothes and run in the snow yelling, “I’m burning up!”
Al Gore said it is ok.
Congratulations, Professor! Your list of crazy followers continues to grow. Not like the old days, eh Professor?
What a grand irony. The American Founders depicted at the top of the page on a blog of the “preeminent constitutional scholar” and all we read are headlines about a banana republic or that the “sky is falling,” when non-anthropogenic climate change has always existed and will exist forever, and no such thing as the redistributive welfare state with affirmative action, etc. is mentioned anywhere in the founding documents that the historical figures at the top of this page produced in their seminal endeavor to end dictatorial monarchy and develop a restricted-vote republic as a representative governance, in stark contrast to one man, one vote democracy.
Maybe a better focus and subject for analysis would be the words of Ben Franklin when he said we gave you “…a republic, if you can keep it.” Anybody seen that “republic” of Ben Franklin lately?
Seems something like misrepresentation here.
Inhofe’s snowball makes sense on this one.
Even Obama could be right once.. by mistake.
calypso, These folks are religious fanatics. Their Pope is Gore, a congenital liar and buffoon. ‘Nuff said!
Patriot
Allying yourself with Inhofe absolutely, irreparably, indisputably, without any room for recourse, negates anything you might have to say. The man is an idiot, has proved himself so, and is nothing more than a puppet for those with skin in the game.
There is always room for positions and arguments on each side of an issue. There is no room for those surfaced by Inhofe. Google his explanation of sea levels and icebergs using an ice cube and a glass of water.
Didn’t NASA/JPL claim a few years ago the planet Mars was experiencing ‘global warming’? Last I checked, there are no SUV’s – or drivers for them – on Mars.
For those who subscribe to the religion of ‘Global Warming’/’Climate Change’, and believe “less carbon emitting substances” will save the planet, please halt your respiration for an extended period (I suggest 10-50 yrs).
Then, if earth temps continue to increase, I’ll join your church …