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GLOBAL WARMING - OCEAN TEMPERATURE
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WHY IS THE OCEAN TEMPERATURES RAISING?:
Global Warming is the process where greenhouse gases are trapped in the atmosphere and absorb or reflect the heat/energy that enters our atmosphere trapping it to collect. This heat/energy continually heats up the atmosphere including the land and the water. This is the logic behind the theory. There are reports going around saying that the ocean temperature is rising by leaps and bounds. Is this the whole truth?		 Carbon Cycle

Actually it is not. There are many other reports that have been confirmed that say, some water temperatures around the world is rising, even the majority of those that are changing, but there are also some that are decreasing in temperature. Let us not forget that there are also some sensors in the ocean that report that their temperature has still not changed. .Just like how some reports say the glaciers are all shrinking, again not true, some are expanding and growing, the minority.

Some say that melting glaciers and sea ice shows that the water is heating up. The truth is some of the glacier/ice shelfs in Anarctica are actually melting and falling into the ocean because large and small volcanoes have been popping up in their area. These volcanoes were discovered in the water below after the ice shelfs melted and allowed explorers to search the water underneath.

Other reports take the safer and more scientific route. They read reports that come from sensors that float in the ocean dedicated to their own areas. These reports usually report that there are a small majority of water temperatures that are decreasing. In addition to the report that says some water are increasing. There are also a great amount stating that their temperature is staying the same.

But with all of this, there are strong reports that also state that the temperature increase in the ocean is also a natural occurence which comes and goes with tides and earth water cycles. There is no sure report that can counteract those that have been written at this time too many claim and increase, while too many claim the opposite. Many claim a natural cycle while other blame Global Warming. Watch out for the reports you read, there's usually is another reasoning for the report.

"THEORY" = Prediction for the Future
"MUST CONFIRM WITH DATA" = Data is not in and has not been provided as of yet.

 "FACT" = data is in and there is no question.
"CONFLICT" is when both sides have accurate" data but they conflict.
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NOAA - Sea ice in the Antarctic, slight increase since 1979.

(MUST CONFIRM WITH DATA)

 

Large-scale measurements of sea-ice have only been possible since the satellite era, but through looking at a number of different satellite estimates, it has been determined that September Arctic sea ice has decreased between 1973 and 2007 at a rate of about -10% +/- 0.3% per decade. Sea ice extent for September for 2007 was by far the lowest on record at 4.28 million square kilometers, eclipsing the previous record low sea ice extent by 23%. Sea ice in the Antarctic has shown very little trend over the same period, or even a slight increase since 1979. Though extending the Antarctic sea-ice record back in time is more difficult due to the lack of direct observations in this part of the world.

 Recent analyses have revealed that results from some of the ocean float and shipboard sensor data used in this study were incorrect. As a result, the study's conclusion that the oceans cooled between 2003 and 2005 can not be substantiated at this time. The study authors are currently working to correct these data errors and recompute ocean temperature changes.

The average temperature of the water near the top of Earth's oceans has significantly cooled since 2003. New research suggests global warming trends are not always steady in their effects on ocean temperatures.

Although the average temperature of the upper oceans has significantly cooled since 2003, the decline is a fraction of the total ocean warming over the previous 48 years.

NASA - Short-Term Ocean Cooling Suggests Global Warming 'Speed Bump'

(CONFIRMED WITH DATA)

NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENCE COUNCIL - Consequences of Global Warming
Unless we act now, our children will inherit a hotter world, dirtier air and water, more severe floods and droughts, and more wildfires

(Warnings - CONFLICTED, see Natural Disasters - Hurricanes have decreased since 2005)

 

Consequence: more powerful and dangerous hurricanes
Warmer water in the oceans pumps more energy into tropical storms, making them more intense and potentially more destructive.

    Warning signs today

  • The number of category 4 and 5 storms has greatly increased over the past 35 years, along with ocean temperature.

  • The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history, with a record 27 named storms, of which 15 became hurricanes. Seven of the hurricanes strengthened into major storms, five became Category 4 hurricanes and a record four reached Category 5 strength.

  • Hurricane Katrina of August 2005 was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history.

Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren't quite understanding what their robots are telling them.

This is puzzling in part because here on the surface of the Earth, the years since 2003 have been some of the hottest on record. But Josh Willis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the oceans are what really matter when it comes to global warming.

In fact, 80 percent to 90 percent of global warming involves heating up ocean waters. They hold much more heat than the atmosphere can. So Willis has been studying the ocean with a fleet of robotic instruments called the Argo system. The buoys can dive 3,000 feet down and measure ocean temperature. Since the system was fully deployed in 2003, it has recorded no warming of the global oceans.

NPR.ORG - The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat

(CONFIRMED WITH DATA)

   

Global warming is taking a break that could last for another 10 years or so.

That's the latest word from a team of climate researchers in Germany. Global average temperatures should remain above normal, the team suggests. But additional warming – already on hold over the first seven years of this decade – is likely to remain that way for another decade. The reason? The team says it expects natural shifts in ocean circulation to affect temperatures in ways that temporarily out-wrestle the effects of rising greenhouse-gas emissions.

The forecast is "very bold," cautions Tom Delworth, a scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University. But, he adds, it represents the cutting edge of climate modeling. The German effort is one of the first widely published attempts to offer climate forecasts on time scales of a decade or so, rather than a century or more. The findings appear in Thursday's edition of Nature

CHRISTIAN MONITOR.COM - A 10-year timeout for global warming, study says. The German research effort is one of the first to attempt 10-year climate forecasts.

(THEORY, MAY BE CONFIRMED WITH DATA - Double checking with multiple scientists with their own studies and reports)

       
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