Topic: Ocean heat content increases update

[sam]

There is a new paper in Nature this week on recent trends in ocean heat content from a large group of oceanographers led by John Lyman at PMEL. Their target is the uncertainty surrounding the various efforts to create a homogenised ocean heat content data set that deals appropriately with the various instrument changes and coverage biases that have plagued previous attempts.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/05/ocean-heat-content-increases-update/


-- Some nice plots and the key line:

As usual, this is unlikely to be the very last word on the subject, but this is more evidence that the planet is basically behaving as the scientists think it is. And that isn’t necessarily good news.

 

[Sandra]

Que sera sera 

[Rik]

There's a song I won't get out of my head for the rest of the day.

[Sandra]

Well it was quite a nice one for its day Rik 

[Rik]

 

[Clive]

The days of innocence.   

[Rik]

At least Sandra didn't mention "How much is that doggie in the window?", oops. 

[Clive]

 

[Simon]

It seems to me that there's little we can actually do about global warning anyway.  If the planet decides it's going to heat up a bit, who are we to try to stop it?  I know we may have contributed to it in some ways, but with 'evidence' pointing every which way, depending on which journal you read, or which newspaper has got the latest scare story on a slow news day, it must be really hard for anyone to come up with a definitive answer as to what we should be doing, or not doing.