RE: Deep Ocean Waters Are Trapping Vast Stores of Heat
(01-19-2016 03:27 PM)dmacfour Wrote: A new study shows that much of the heat from global warming is reaching deep into the ocean
Quote:More than 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gas pollution since the 1970s has wound up in the oceans, and research published Monday revealed that a little more than a third of that seafaring heat has worked its way down to depths greater than 2,300 feet (700 meters).
Quote:A combination of climate pollution, a recent change in a long-running cycle of the Pacific Ocean and the current El Niño has led to a spike in warming rates recorded at the surface of the planet. That followed a surface warming slowdown; 2014 and 2015 were the warmest years on record globally.
Quote:“The oceans as an energy store are really doing a lot of the work,” said Lawrence Livermore researcher Paul Durack, who helped produce the studies that were published Monday and in 2014. “The actual temperature change is relatively small, but due to the huge heat capacity of the oceans this equates to a very, very large heat content change.”
RE: Deep Ocean Waters Are Trapping Vast Stores of Heat
(01-20-2016 01:28 PM)EverRespect Wrote:
(01-19-2016 03:27 PM)dmacfour Wrote: A new study shows that much of the heat from global warming is reaching deep into the ocean
Quote:More than 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gas pollution since the 1970s has wound up in the oceans, and research published Monday revealed that a little more than a third of that seafaring heat has worked its way down to depths greater than 2,300 feet (700 meters).
Quote:A combination of climate pollution, a recent change in a long-running cycle of the Pacific Ocean and the current El Niño has led to a spike in warming rates recorded at the surface of the planet. That followed a surface warming slowdown; 2014 and 2015 were the warmest years on record globally.
Quote:“The oceans as an energy store are really doing a lot of the work,” said Lawrence Livermore researcher Paul Durack, who helped produce the studies that were published Monday and in 2014. “The actual temperature change is relatively small, but due to the huge heat capacity of the oceans this equates to a very, very large heat content change.”
RE: Deep Ocean Waters Are Trapping Vast Stores of Heat
(01-20-2016 01:36 PM)dmacfour Wrote:
(01-20-2016 01:28 PM)EverRespect Wrote:
(01-19-2016 03:27 PM)dmacfour Wrote: A new study shows that much of the heat from global warming is reaching deep into the ocean
Quote:More than 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gas pollution since the 1970s has wound up in the oceans, and research published Monday revealed that a little more than a third of that seafaring heat has worked its way down to depths greater than 2,300 feet (700 meters).
Quote:A combination of climate pollution, a recent change in a long-running cycle of the Pacific Ocean and the current El Niño has led to a spike in warming rates recorded at the surface of the planet. That followed a surface warming slowdown; 2014 and 2015 were the warmest years on record globally.
Quote:“The oceans as an energy store are really doing a lot of the work,” said Lawrence Livermore researcher Paul Durack, who helped produce the studies that were published Monday and in 2014. “The actual temperature change is relatively small, but due to the huge heat capacity of the oceans this equates to a very, very large heat content change.”
RE: Deep Ocean Waters Are Trapping Vast Stores of Heat
(01-20-2016 01:53 PM)EverRespect Wrote:
(01-20-2016 01:36 PM)dmacfour Wrote:
(01-20-2016 01:28 PM)EverRespect Wrote:
(01-19-2016 03:27 PM)dmacfour Wrote: A new study shows that much of the heat from global warming is reaching deep into the ocean
Quote:More than 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gas pollution since the 1970s has wound up in the oceans, and research published Monday revealed that a little more than a third of that seafaring heat has worked its way down to depths greater than 2,300 feet (700 meters).
Quote:A combination of climate pollution, a recent change in a long-running cycle of the Pacific Ocean and the current El Niño has led to a spike in warming rates recorded at the surface of the planet. That followed a surface warming slowdown; 2014 and 2015 were the warmest years on record globally.
Quote:“The oceans as an energy store are really doing a lot of the work,” said Lawrence Livermore researcher Paul Durack, who helped produce the studies that were published Monday and in 2014. “The actual temperature change is relatively small, but due to the huge heat capacity of the oceans this equates to a very, very large heat content change.”
RE: Deep Ocean Waters Are Trapping Vast Stores of Heat
IF, and that is a YUUUUUUGE IF, the "global warming" is coming from the evil human mammal, that means it is coming from the Sun, and being trapped by all of the extra co2 we are causing. If it is almost totally black at 700 feet down, how in the hell is the Sun heating up "deep Ocean waters"?
RE: Deep Ocean Waters Are Trapping Vast Stores of Heat
(01-20-2016 11:39 PM)geosnooker2000 Wrote: IF, and that is a YUUUUUUGE IF, the "global warming" is coming from the evil human mammal, that means it is coming from the Sun, and being trapped by all of the extra co2 we are causing. If it is almost totally black at 700 feet down, how in the hell is the Sun heating up "deep Ocean waters"?
It's not. Very little is known about the ocean floor. The Mariana Trench, for instance, is 6.831 miles deep and goes into the upper mantle of the earth. Estimated temperature of the upper mantle is 932 to 1,652 °F. But yeah, .1 degrees increase of the average surface temperatures across the globe has a larger effect on deep water temps .