Nor did you read and post to this forum an honest portrayal of the report.
This is from a source that in not trying to push it political on cons that get conned time and time again by them.
What they are essentially saying is that warming is greater than they thought but the deep oceans temperatures have not contributed to rising sea levels. And the
pause in temperature rising is not cause by the deep ocean waters.
Prior to 2004, research has been very limited by the poor measurement coverage,” Durack says. “By using satellite data, along with a large suite of climate model simulations, our results suggest that global ocean warming has been underestimated by 24 to 58 percent.
The conclusion that warming has been underestimated agrees with previous studies, however it’s the first time that scientists have tried to estimate how much heat we’ve missed.”
Given that most of the excess heat associated with global warming raises the temperature of the oceans, this study has important implications for how scientists view Earth’s overall energy budget, Durack adds.
The second Nature Climate Change study concurs with the warming at the oceans’ surface, but finds no additional warming at depth.
“The deep parts of the ocean are harder to measure,” says lead author William Llovel, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). “The combination of satellite and direct temperature data gives us a glimpse of how much sea level rise is due to deep warming. The answer is—not much.”
To arrive at their conclusion, the JPL scientists did a straightforward subtraction calculation, using data for 2005 to 2013 from the Argo buoys, NASA’s Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites, and the agency’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. From the total amount of sea level rise, they subtracted the amount of rise from the expansion in the upper ocean, and the amount of rise that came from added meltwater (think melting glaciers and ice at the poles). The remainder represented the amount of sea level rise caused by warming in the deep ocean.
The remainder was essentially zero. Deep ocean warming contributed virtually nothing to sea level rise during this period.
Other scientists have explained that the so-called global warming pause is simply heat trapped in the oceans’ depth, but this study refutes this claim. (For more information, Climatewire and Scientific American explain the argument well here.)
In an accompanying News and Views article in Nature Climate Change, NOAA’s Gregory Johnson and John Lyman discuss how the studies “highlight the importance of ocean temperature measurements to understanding and predicting our changing climate—including future increases in atmospheric temperature and sea level.”
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