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A widely reported "pause" in global warming may be an artefact of scientists looking at the wrong data, says a climate scientist at the
European Space Agency.
Global average sea surface temperatures rose rapidly from the 1970s but have been relatively flat for the past 15 years. This has prompted speculation from some quarters that global warming has stalled.
Now, Stephen Briggs from the European Space Agency's Directorate of Earth Observation says that sea surface temperature data is the worst indicator of global climate that can be used, describing it as "lousy".
"It is like looking at the last hair on the tail of a dog and trying to decide what breed it is," he said on Friday at the Royal Society in London.
Climate scientists have been arguing for some time that the lack of warming of the sea surface is due to most of the extra
heat being taken up by the deep ocean. A better measure, he said, was to look at the average rise in sea levels. The oceans store the vast majority of the climate's heat energy. Increases in this stored energy translate into sea level rises.
"The sea level shows us the engine of global climate not one of the consequences," said Briggs.
Comment: It's interesting to note that sea levels have been
much higher during previous warming and interglacial periods. They were rising during the warming period before 'the pause', but now that it isn't warming there's a correlation? What of the growth of
Antarctic and
Arctic ice in recent years? What of the
many earth changes that simply cannot be explained away by AGW? Die hard political 'scientist' zealots have been blaming everything under the sun for a theory that...just doesn't hold water!
There's much about the ocean and how it interacts with earth systems that remain to be understood. For example, researchers just
found new evidence that suggests the earth may have massive underground reservoirs that are three times the size of our surface oceans. Might these reservoirs have some influence on a rising sea level?
For those interested in a sincere investigation on actual science of what is actually happening on this planet be sure to check out the new book in the
Secret History of the World series,
Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.
Comment: There is good possibility that Tuesday's X-class solar flares, which were expected to hit earth Friday/Saturday, played an important role in charging the ionosphere and setting off discharges like this event, as well as the rich electric storms over Europe on Saturday.
The sun's positively charged 'wind gushes' create big potential differences between pockets of positively charged layers of atmosphere (clouds and dust) and its attracted electrons from below, leading to discharge events. In a nutshell, much in the same way our sun's activity's interaction with earth's conductive environment creates other discharging 'air-spirals' like hurricanes and lightning.
For an interesting and helpful read about our solar systems electromagnetic setup, see Pierre Lescaudron's book: