In the seventh installment of this climate change series, the researchers at the Jackson School of Geosciences consider the impact of ocean cycles on global warming.
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Ocean temps hint at warming trend
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Marc Airhart
Published: Nov. 16, 2010Comments disabled No Comments
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[...] The oceans are the largest single reservoir of heat in the climate system. And they do have internal cycles of variability, such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO). These cycles have impacts on the sea surface temperature in specific regions that vary from year to year and even from decade to decade. So perhaps, the argument goes, we just happen to be in a warm period that will last a few decades and the oceans will eventually switch back to a cool period. Continue reading this myth … [...]
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