Guardian: Yes, Warming Has Continued; Yes, It's Man-Made, And Other Topics Of Importance
The Skeptical Science study finding a 97 percent expert consensus that humans are causing global warming led readers to ask several related climate questions. For example, how does the consensus jibe with claims that global surface warming has slowed over the past 10 to 15 years?
The answer to this question lies in recent research into ocean warming. Only about 2 percent of global warming is used in heating the Earth's atmosphere, while about 90 percent heats the oceans. Several recent studies, including one that I led last year along with the Skeptical Science team and oceanographer John Church, have shown that the warming of the oceans and thus the planet as a whole has accelerated over the past 10 to 15 years.
Most recently, a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters examined ocean temperature records made by the HMS Challenger in the 1870s. Their analysis confirmed that there has been an immense amount of energy absorbed by the oceans as a result of human-caused global warming.
Their estimated accumulation of ocean heat is equivalent to around 10 billion Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations over the past 140 years, or an average of about 2 detonations per second since the 1870s. Half of that energy has accumulated in the oceans since 1970, at an average rate of about 4 atomic bomb detonations per second due to accelerated global warming. Peter Sinclair of Climate Crocks interviewed climate scientist Kevin Trenberth about the significance of the recent acceleration in ocean and global warming.
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