A Looming Climate Shift: Will Ocean Heat Come Back to Haunt us?

2013, Atmosphere, El Nino, Global, Hydrosphere, La Nina, Ocean Heat Content, Oceanography, Region, Year1 Comment

By Rob Painting / SkepticalScience, June 24, 2013: Key Points: Despite a large increase in heat being absorbed by the Earth’s climate system(oceans, land & ice), the first decade of the 21st century saw a slowdown in the rate of global surface warming (surface air temperatures). A climate model-based study, Meehl (2011), predicted that this…