© CSIROCSIRO Wealth from Oceans scientist, Dr Susan Wijffels, who shares the helm of the world’s largest ocean monitoring program aimed at reducing uncertainties about climate change.
The stronger water cycle means arid regions have become drier and high rainfall regions wetter as atmospheric temperature increases.
The study, co-authored by CSIRO scientists Paul Durack and Dr Susan Wijffels, shows the surface ocean beneath rainfall-dominated regions has freshened, whereas ocean regions dominated by evaporation are saltier. The paper also confirms that surface warming of the world's oceans over the past 50 years has penetrated into the oceans' interior changing deep-ocean salinity patterns.
"This is further confirmation from the global ocean that the Earth's water cycle has accelerated," says Mr Durack - a PhD student at the joint CSIRO/University of Tasmania, Quantitative Marine Science program.
"These broad-scale patterns of change are qualitatively consistent with simulations reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Comment: Good disinfo comes with a kernel of truth. It's impossible to get any climate related study published today without couching it in terms of "man made global warming caused by increased CO2 emissions."
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Yes, the oceans are doing as described above, but not because of "global warming" as explicated by the IPCC. The oceans are heating due to undersea volcanic activity. At the same time, the upper atmosphere is cooling due to increased cosmic dust. As noted above, this has produced increased evaporation which leads to increased precipitation in the form of rain and snow.