Re: [asa] World sets ocean temperature record

Rich

> What the news story doesn't mention is that this is the second
> straight record month for global ocean temps.

I thought you told me last summer that two months is too short a period
to establish any trend in terms of GW. At the time I was commenting
upon the unusually wet and cold summer that eastern Ontario and
probably the areas in the US just to our south, was having. By the way
our July this year was extremely cold although August has returned to
more usual temperatures with highs in the range of 25 to 31.

Dave W

Rich Blinne wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:00 AM, John Burgeson (ASA member)
> <hossradbourne@gmail.com <mailto:hossradbourne@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Murray -- thanks for the link. It will not register, however, on those
> who see AGW as a political issue.
>
> jb
>
> On 8/20/09, Murray Hogg <muzhogg@netspace.net.au
> <mailto:muzhogg@netspace.net.au>> wrote:
> > For those who like to keep track of the global warming news;
> >
> >
> http://finance.yahoo.com/news/In-hot-water-World-sets-ocean-apf-1959202083.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=3&asset=&ccode=
> <http://finance.yahoo.com/news/In-hot-water-World-sets-ocean-apf-1959202083.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=3&asset=&ccode=>
> >
>
>
> What the news story doesn't mention is that this is the second
> straight record month for global ocean temps.
>
> The global ocean surface temperature for July 2009 was the warmest on
> record, 0.59°C (1.06°F) above the 20th century average of 16.4°C
> (61.5°F). This broke the previous July record set in 1998 when we had
> the El Niño of the century. The July ocean surface temperature
> departure from the long-term average equals June 2009 value, which was
> also a record.
>
> El Niño persisted across the equatorial Pacific Ocean during July
> 2009. Related sea-surface temperature (SST) anomalies increased for
> the sixth consecutive month in this ENSO domain, where July SSTs were
> more than 0.5°C (0.9°F) above average. If El Niño conditions continue
> to mature, as now projected by NOAA, global temperatures are likely to
> exceed previous record highs.
>
> Also, there is the issue of acidification of the ocean:
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090813163158.htm
>
> You're right about it not registering. Note what Glenn noted to me
> June of last year:
>
> Look at the last few years. Same with Jan-april
> http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2008/apr/glob-jan-apr-pg.gif
>
> Look at the ocean cooling from its previous highs—yet we have more
> CO2 now.
>
> The denialists scream about the weather stations near cities but you
> cannot say that in the middle of the ocean. Their tendency of picking
> two arbitrary data points and calling it a "trend" is biting them in
> the behind. We also appear to have hit solar minimum December 2008.
> http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/sunspot.gif So, that's going to
> heat things up too in the medium term but fortunately not as much as
> the historical average. The prediction for cycle 24 is that we will
> have a peak sunspot rate around 90 with a peak May 2013. Average peak
> sunspot rate is 114.
>
> Rich Blinne
> Member ASA

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Received on Fri Aug 21 16:54:44 2009