{"id":263158,"date":"2023-06-21T12:47:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T10:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263158"},"modified":"2023-06-21T12:47:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T10:47:51","slug":"why-are-the-seas-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263158","title":{"rendered":"Why Are The Seas\u00a0Warming?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Justin Rowlatt<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC News Climate editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the most intense marine heat increases on Earth have developed in seas around the UK and Ireland, the European Space Agency (Esa) says.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water temperatures are as much as 3 to 4C above the average for this time of year in some areas, according to analysis by Esa and the Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sea is particularly warm off the UK\u2019s east coast from Durham to Aberdeen, and off north-west Ireland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Met Office says the reason is partly human-caused climate change.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But other, less-understood natural and man-made factors appear to be driving temperatures up further.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-65948544<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is part of a wider phenomena, with global SSTs continuing a decades long rise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.ospo.noaa.gov\/Products\/ocean\/sst\/anomaly\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/climate4you.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Justin Rowlatt writes, this cannot all be blamed on AGW, and natural factors are at play as well. In fact, the heat content of the oceans is so great, that GHGs can have very little direct impact on sea temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does have a major impact is the power of the sun. And according to Prof Ole Humlum, solar irradiance, effectively the amount of energy emitted by the sun, rose steadily through the 20thC,although there is no data since 2014:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/climate4you.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you add in the reduction in cloud cover during the 1990s, you have a very powerful mechanism for ocean warming:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead of demonising fossil fuels, we should be trying to understand these natural forces first.<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instead of demonising fossil fuels, we should be trying to understand these natural forces 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