Category Archives: Oceans

Geothermal ocean warming discussion thread

Posted on July 21, 2019 by curryja | 173 comments

by Judith Curry

“The atmosphere bias of climate science makes it impossible for them to see geological forces and therefore, impossible for them to understand the earth’s climate.” – Thongchai

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Posted in Attribution, Oceans

Sea level rise whiplash

Posted on February 8, 2019 by curryja | 112 comments

by Judith Curry

Some recent sea level rise publications, with implications for how we think about the worst case scenario for the 21st century.

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Posted in Oceans

Is ocean warming accelerating faster than thought?

Posted on January 21, 2019 by niclewis | 92 comments

by Nic Lewis

*** UPDATE : response to comments by Zeke Hausfather appended

There are a number of statements in Cheng et al. (2019) ‘How fast are the oceans warming’, (‘the paper’) that appear to be mistaken and/or potentially misleading. My analysis of these issues is followed by a reply from the paper’s authors.

Contrary to what the paper indicates:

Contemporary estimates of the trend in 0–2000 m depth ocean heat content over 1971–2010 are closely in line with that assessed in the IPCC AR5 report five years ago
Contemporary estimates of the trend in 0–2000 m depth ocean heat content over 2005–2017 are significantly (> 95% probability) smaller than the mean CMIP5 model simulation trend.

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Posted in climate models, IPCC, Oceans