{"id":625,"date":"2006-08-30T16:12:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T23:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2006-08-30T08:14:51","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T15:14:51","slug":"a-sudden-ocean-heat-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/08\/30\/a-sudden-ocean-heat-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sudden Ocean Heat Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0608\/oceantemp.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>We are in the midst of global warming and yet the ocean temperatures are cooling? Is this correct? New data in a soon-to-be-published paper indicate the opposite of what might be expected during a period of increasing Earth surface temperatures:<em> the top 2500 feet of the ocean lost a tremendous amount of heat between from 2003 through 2005\u00e2\u20ac\u201dabout 20% of all the heat gained in the last half-century<\/em>. Considering the thermal inertia the oceans must have, this is astonishing! (Image: Global Ocean Surface Temperatures &#8211; courtesy NASA)<\/p>\n<p>A good article on this topic may be found at  <strong>World Climate Report<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldclimatereport.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/24\/a-sea-change-in-global-warming\/\">A Sea Change in Global Warming?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sudden cooling may be related to <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=372\">Earth&#8217;s Ocean Conveyor Belt<\/a>, the phenomenon popularized by the movie &#8220;The Day After Tomorrow.&#8221; Nobody really knows though.<\/p>\n<p>Just when the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=547\">global warming alarmists<\/a> are making their case against <em>evil mankind<\/em> warming the Earth, this has to happen &#8211; tsk, tsk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the midst of global warming and yet the ocean temperatures are cooling? Is this correct? New data in a soon-to-be-published paper indicate the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}