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Finally Some Reality from RealClimate – But, Unfortunately, They Remained...
The post Ocean heat storage: a particularly lousy policy target + Update at RealClimate finally presented a few realities of the global-warming metric known as ocean heat content—realities we have...
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Arguments For and Against Human-Induced Ocean Warming
UPDATE: Corrected the percentage of ocean heat loss though evaporation. Update 2: I added a link to a post by Willis Eschenbach at the end, and I corrected a typo. # # # Ocean heat content and...
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NODC Data Continue to Indicate the Deep Oceans are Warming in Some Basins But...
UPDATE: I forgot to note that the data in Figure 1 have been zeroed at the year 2003. That was done to simplify the illustration. # # # The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) recently updated...
View ArticleBad News for Trenberth’s Missing Heat – New Study Finds the Deep Oceans...
…that some of the warming nearer to the surface came from the deep ocean. The paper is Liang et al. (2015) Vertical Redistribution of Oceanic Heat Content. The abstract reads (my boldface): Estimated...
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New Paper Tries to Explain Disparities in Deep Ocean Warming Between Two Basins
UPDATE See the end of the post for a copy of it in pdf format. PREFACE I comment frankly about the NODC ocean heat content data a number of times in this post. Please do not take those remarks as...
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Ocean Heat: New Study Shows Climate Scientists Can Still Torture Data until...
A week or so ago, a troll left a link at my blog to a supposed-to-be-alarming blog post about a new climate study of ocean heat content. According to the study, a revised method of tweaking ocean heat...
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Climate Models Fail: Global Ocean Heat Content (Based on TOA Energy Imbalance)
OVERVIEW I recently presented the modeled energy imbalance at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) in the post No Consensus: Earth’s Top of Atmosphere Energy Imbalance in CMIP5-Archived (IPCC AR5)...
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Comments on Riser et al (2016) – An Infomercial about the ARGO Program
UPDATE: I’ve crossed out the entire discussion of the top of the atmosphere energy imbalance and removed the illustration. See the note at the beginning of that heading. # # # An illustration in the...
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Climate Models are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 3
UPDATE: See the update below Figure 1.24-8 for the IPCC’s correction of their Figure 9.17 from the 5th Assessment Report. Thanks, Nic. # # # This post presents model-data comparisons of ocean heat...
View ArticleFRIDAY FUNNY – At Long Last, Kevin Trenberth’s Missing Heat May Have Been...
UPDATED: See the update at the end of the post about climate sensitivity. # # # Alternate title: Press Release Plus Mainstream Media & Blogosphere Responses to Resplandy et al. 2018 Before we get...
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