Article Tags: World Temperatures, You could not make it up
Sea surface temperature from March this year. Illustration: MODIS/Aqua/NASA
Further study on oceans needed before hidden heat ‘comes back to haunt us’, say researchers in Colorado
Experts need to beef up ways to measure the heat content of oceans as a way to track more reliably the course of global warming, scientists say today.
Kevin Trenberth and John Fasullo, climate scientists at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, say that only about half of the heat believed to have built up in the Earth in recent years can be accounted for. New instruments are needed to locate and monitor this missing heat, they say, which could be storing up trouble for the future.
“The heat will come back to haunt us sooner or later,” Trenberth said. “The reprieve we’ve had from warming temperatures in the last few years will not continue. It is critical to track the build-up of energy in our climate system so we can understand what is happening and predict our future climate.”
Click source to read more of this “where is it” report from David Adam”. Thanks to ClimateGate we know “who done it” & “why they did it”, maybe soon we will have a “what was it“. This latest mystery is bizarrely there as a result of NO warming, the only warming that is apparent, is with corrupted data on a computer, you could not make it up!
Source: guardian.co.uk