<a class="bbc_url" href='http://gizmodo.com/the-global-warming-pause-never-actually-happened-1716701502'>http://gizmodo.com/the-global-warming-pause-never-actually-happened-1716701502</a>


^^some of the worse news we've gotten yet


"There’s been much debate these past few years over the cause of the so-called global warming “hiatus”—a pause in the overall uptick up of Earth’s temperature due to cooling at the surface of the Pacific Ocean since the early 2000s. Did climate warming stop? Nope, we just weren’t looking deep enough.


Earth’s extra heat, you see, has spent the last 10 years sinking into the vast depths of the equatorial Pacific and Indian Oceans.


That’s the conclusion of a new study, conducted by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and published today in the journal Science. The study, which examines two decades of observational data, offers the most definitive evidence to date that Earth’s largest ocean has been massively redistributing heat since 2003. Specifically, cooling in the top 100 meter layer of the Pacific Ocean has been compensated by warming in the 100 to 300 meter layer of both the Pacific and Indian Oceans, which together cover over 40% of our planet’s surface."


From the link^^


Comment stolen from reddit:


"The second image in the article is really the key.


The vertical blocks are avg. temperatures at increasing depths, i.e., the top left block is avg temperature at the surface in 1994, the block beneath that is the avg. temp at the next depth, (looks like 10-20 meters ish), and it continues like that in units of depths and blocks of time.

Basically take a slice of the ocean from surface to the bottom, and measure the temperature of the depths over time and watch how that changes.

As you move left to right, you see that while the surface does warm, it was not enough to account for the 'missing' energy.

However, if you look at the middle of the image, and move left to right, you see that it becomes VERY red. This implies that it wasn't the surface of the ocean which warmed, but some intermediate depths, somewhere between 100-300 meters.

This essentially explains where the 'missing' energy went, which was responsible for the 'pause' in increase of surface temperature.

i.e., if carbon dioxide is really trapping more energy from the sun, it has to go somewhere. If it isn't surface temperatures, it must add energy some place else, and we have found it! And it's not good!"

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