“An important result of this paper is the demonstration that the oceans have continued to warm over the past decade, at a rate consistent with estimates of Earth’s net energy imbalance,” Rintoul said. “While the rate of increase in surface air temperatures slowed in the last 10 to 15 years, the heat stored by the planet, which is heavily dominated by the oceans, has steadily increased as greenhouse gases have continued to rise.” That extra heat isn’t expected to swim with the fishes forever. Some of it will eventually rise from the deep, raising temperatures in places that more directly affect us landlubbers. Just how rapidly the oceanic heat will resurface to warm the land is “something that we struggle with,” said Scripps’s Gille. But she said heat is constantly shifting between oceans and the atmosphere. “A warmer ocean will mean a warmer atmosphere.”
I thought that we had settled this. 1. You accept the Hansen Hypothesis that it is man-produced CO2 that is causing our climate change; 2. You believe that a little increase in CO2 could cause a disproportionate increase in temperature via positive feedback; I don't. I suppose I should add that I don't know what is causing climate change any more than those things that have always caused it. I don't know whether man is affecting his own climate or not, but I do know that their is no positive feedback. The feedback is a little negative in fact!!!
Scott Brown, Cory Gardner Shift Stance On Climate Change In First Senate Debates WASHINGTON -- Republican Senate candidates Scott Brown and Cory Gardner on Monday embraced the notion that climate change is caused in part by human activity, despite previously expressing skepticism that man-made climate change is real. Brown, a former Massachusetts senator, is seeking to unseat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, while Gardner, a congressman from Colorado, is looking to defeat Sen. Mark Udall in that state. Both races, which are regarded as unexpectedly competitive for Democrats, had their first debates on Monday. In both, candidates were asked if they believed that humans were causing climate change. Gardner briefly weighed in on the human contributions to climate change, then used his response to criticize the so-called Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill passed by House Democrats in 2010: "First he denied the basic science behind climate change, now he’s changing his tune," Whithorne said in an email to HuffPost. "Scott Brown can’t make up his mind about what he believes. One thing is clear, he’ll say anything that’s politically convenient to try to get himself elected." Gardner, according to Whithorne, "couldn't even answer the question without attempting to deny and deceive." "First he ducked it entirely, then deceived Coloradans with an incomplete answer to deliberately mislead voters on his record," Whithorne said. "Maybe he thinks all of the pollution is caused by cow farts? The facts are clear; Gardner has taken votes to deny the reality of climate change and to let power plants dump unlimited carbon pollution into the air." HuffPost's Pollster average, which combines all publicly available polling, shows Gardner and Udall tied. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/republicans-climate-change_n_5941866.html
Well finally, there it is. So you don't think man-produced CO2 is causing global warming. That's just fucking stupid. A special kind of stupid. You are disagreeing with virtually the entire world's science community and common sense simple physics. Actually I don't believe you. I think you are lying.
Pardon me if this is a repeat... The savage heat waves that struck Australia last year were almost certainly a direct consequence of greenhouse gases released by human activity, researchers said Monday. It is perhaps the most definitive statement climate scientists have made tying a specific weather event to global warming. Five groups of researchers, using distinct methods, analyzed the heat that baked Australia for much of 2013 and continued into 2014, briefly shutting down the Australian Open tennis tournament in January when the temperature climbed to 111 degrees Fahrenheit. All five research groups came to the conclusion that last year’s heat waves could not have been as severe without the long-term climatic warming caused by human emissions. “When we look at the heat across the whole of Australia and the whole 12 months of 2013, we can say that this was virtually impossible without climate change,” said David Karoly, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne who led some of the research.
It's in the same vein as the Chen/Tung work on the North Atlantic (and the effects of introducing large quantities of fresh water into that area).