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NickB79

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4. So the models were accurate, AND the oceans are absorbing far more heat than thought?

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Thu Nov 14, 2013, 08:13 AM

Nov 2013

Previously this year, the "pause" in warming was blamed on excess heat going into the oceans. Now it turns out there wasn't even a real pause, but rather bad sampling data. The planet has continued to heat up all this time.

Doesn't that mean the models far UNDERESTIMATED the true amount of warming, if both lines of research turn out to be true?

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Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated by Half [View all] muriel_volestrangler Nov 2013 OP

Yes, it is important. kristopher Nov 2013 #1

Meanwhile, below the surface, Greenland Sea found to have warmed 10 times faster than global ocean muriel_volestrangler Nov 2013 #2

Interesting LouisvilleDem Nov 2013 #3

So the models were accurate, AND the oceans are absorbing far more heat than thought? NickB79 Nov 2013 #4

Woohoo! That calls for a song! Nihil Nov 2013 #5

K&R!! G_j Nov 2013 #6