And retardinhood isn't aware that carbon capture is a joke on greens and people who pay tax. CO2 is a solvent which oil companies use to revitalize once thought empty sweet crude fields or speed up extraction of heavy oil fields. They couldn't ask afor a better gift than have taxpayers fund sequestration conversions to coal and NG power plants and pipelines to distribute the CO2 around the patches. On top it all off the CO2 is released in the refinnig process and up the stack it goes.Hansen hasn't noticed that there has been no warming since'98.
Yeah, he's wonderful! Eh, Biff?The amount of carbon dioxide has been going up steadily, we're still getting record setting warm years even during a time of record solar inactivity, James Hansen's predictions from 1981 have or are in the process of coming true.
The radiative imbalance of +0.6 w/m^2 that already exists is being added to constantly by increasing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and all the negative stuff that has already been costing people billions of dollars in damage is going to continue plus worse as the sea levels keep rising.
Hansen has been doing a great job and will continue to educate people based on facts, not the kind of distortions that some here seem to believe passes for a valid counterargument.
Hansen has been doing a great job and will continue to educate people based on facts, not the kind of distortions that some here seem to believe passes for a valid counterargument.
The radiative imbalance of +0.6 w/m^2 that already exists is being added to constantly by increasing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and all the negative stuff that has already been costing people billions of dollars in damage is going to continue plus worse as the sea levels keep rising.
What went wrong?The amount of carbon dioxide has been going up steadily, we're still getting record setting warm years even during a time of record solar inactivity, James Hansen's predictions from 1981 have or are in the process of coming true.
The radiative imbalance of +0.6 w/m^2 that already exists is being added to constantly by increasing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and all the negative stuff that has already been costing people billions of dollars in damage is going to continue plus worse as the sea levels keep rising.
Hansen has been doing a great job and will continue to educate people based on facts, not the kind of distortions that some here seem to believe passes for a valid counterargument.
They have?This is because about 90% of overall global warming goes into heating the oceans, and the oceans have been warming dramatically.
Well you just burst everyone's bubble man... We all thought this global warming was a joke! Thanks! Now I'm all depressed again........and yet.
A new study of ocean warming has just been published in Geophysical Research Letters by Balmaseda, Trenberth, and Källén (2013). There are several important conclusions which can be drawn from this paper.
- Completely contrary to the popular contrarian myth, global warming has accelerated, with more overall global warming in the past 15 years than the prior 15 years. This is because about 90% of overall global warming goes into heating the oceans, and the oceans have been warming dramatically.
- As suspected, much of the 'missing heat' Kevin Trenberth previously talked about has been found in the deep oceans. Consistent with the results of Nuccitelli et al. (2012), this study finds that 30% of the ocean warming over the past decade has occurred in the deeper oceans below 700 meters, which they note is unprecedented over at least the past half century.
- Some recent studies have concluded based on the slowed global surface warming over the past decade that the sensitivity of the climate to the increased greenhouse effect is somewhat lower than the IPCC best estimate. Those studies are fundamentally flawed because they do not account for the warming of the deep oceans.
- The slowed surface air warming over the past decade has lulled many people into a false and unwarranted sense of security.
Yup.So in other words. We are doomed
Well you just burst everyone's bubble man... We all thought this global warming was a joke! Thanks! Now I'm all depressed again...
This is because about 90% of overall global warming goes into heating the oceans, and the oceans have been warming dramatically.
- The slowed surface air warming over the past decade has lulled many people into a false and unwarranted sense of security.