"Tell you what - why don't you just trust in the Lord?"

I can recall back in the year 1995 when I watched an interesting and alarmist television program. The program was fictional but it was based on reality. I mean, sure, everything is real. Hollywood makes movies during the daytime and well, the Sun is definitely real.

So anyway, I forget the name of that television production but it was something about the global climate and the story itself was fiction.

But the ending I still recall well.

At the ending, the breathless narrator described dramatically the news from scientists: The global ocean conveyor belt had stopped.

Whether I recall the details from that production or I recall the details from similar productions later I read or watched what that meant to me was that global warming caused enough ice to melt so that fresh water flooded the oceans in certain parts and that decreased salt content stopped a kind of conveyor belt that runs through the ocean deep below the surface. The function of that so-called conveyor is to balance out extremes, as far as I know. The result is that no region gets too hot and no region gets too cold. Of course there are regions that get very hot and regions that get very cold but they could be worse.

So what that condition could lead to is another global ice age. The waters of the ocean stop circulating and the cold and heat become trapped in extremes.










http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2014/07/31/taking-planets-temperature-best-done-ocean/

AGU Blogosphere


31 July 2014

Taking The Planets Temperature Is Best Done In Ocean

Posted by Dan Satterfield

Your filling the backyard pool for summer, and the kids are asking how long it will take to fill up. Now, you could just use simple math (using the gallons per minute you are adding to the pool divided by the total volume) and get an answer, but lets say you forgot to ask what it was and the internet is down, so you can’t look it up. Well, you could go out and measure how fast the water level is rising, but you suspect you might have a leak, and it’s also a windy day. Still, it’s your best bet, so out you go and you take a measurement followed by another twenty minutes later. Let’s assume the second measurement shows NO RISE in water level. Do you have a leak? Maybe, but the wind was making waves in the water, and the dog had just jumped into the pool as you were taking the measurement, so the water could be sloshing a few inches and you are uncertain. Trust me, you have every right to be!

Measuring the Earth’s temperature is in many ways very similar to the problem our back yard Dad is facing. The increasing greenhouse gases are trapping more and more heat, and we can actually do the math and come up with a very close estimate of how much. The problem is that there are natural oscillations in the atmosphere and oceans that affect the global temperature, so looking at the temperature from month to month or even year to year is going to show you the combination of all of these mixed in along with the rise from greenhouse warming. This is why you should always turn on alarm bells when you see a graph of the Earth’s temperature over a period of a few years, or even a couple of decades, because It’s showing you a mix of natural and anthropogenic oscillations.

I still see these graphs frequently on false science websites claiming climate change is a hoax, or that “global warming has stopped” etc. It’s actually very possible for the surface temperature to hold steady or even drop, as the earth’s outgoing radiation drops compared to what is coming in. Climate simulations have shown that even as temps rise over a century by several degrees celsius, there are period of steady and even declining temperatures over periods of up to a decade.










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossby_wave


Rossby wave

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Atmospheric Rossby waves are giant meanders in high-altitude winds with major influence on weather. Rossby waves are associated with pressure systems and the jet stream. Oceanic Rossby waves move along the thermocline: that is, the boundary between the warm upper layer of the ocean and the cold deeper part of the ocean. Rossby waves are a subset of inertial waves.










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