New data on ocean warming: it keeps getting hotter
John Abraham has a summary post on the Guardian website describing the recent data on ocean temperatures, and it’s a doozy. Here’s the graph of ocean heat content since before 1960, and it shows substantial increases since 1990.
About 90% of recent warming is stored in the oceans, so this result is consistent with the well established scientific fact that the earth has warmed substantially in recent decades.
Abraham sums it all up nicely:
So when we look back on 2014 and the records that fell, it gives us some pause about the so-called pause (hat-tip to Dr. Greg Laden for that phrase). Some people tried to tell us global warming had “paused”, that it ended in 1998, or that the past 15 years or so had not seen a change in the energy of the Earth. This ocean warming data is the clearest nail in that coffin. There never was a pause to global warming, there never was a halt, and the folks that tried to tell you there was were, well, I’ll let you decide. For me, the facts speak for themselves.
Indeed they do!
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