A new and detailed study into the recent 13 year pause in global surfacing warming points to stronger trade winds in the Pacific as the primary cause. Scientists recently explained that the deep oceans have been absorbing the brunt of excess solar radiation due to higher greenhouse gas levels, but they didn’t know exactly how that was happening. Research just published in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that the strengthening of the trade winds has churned the Pacific so much that heat is being drawn from the air down to the waters between about 300 and 1,000 feet in depth. The same churning brings up cooler waters, cooling the air above the ocean surface. Further accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere is expected to eventually overpower the factors behind the pause in global warming.
Earthweek | Steve Newman
The Plain Dealer February 22, 2014
As the world churns.
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