Heat ‘Hiding’ in Oceans
Otherwise, temps could have risen by more than 200 degrees, claims CBS.
Dezinformatsia
> “Carbon emissions also trap heat. [The IPCC’s] report shows oceans have absorbed 90 percent of that heat, raising ocean temperatures by half a degree. Had all that heat gone into the atmosphere, air temperatures could have risen by more than 200 degrees.”
Research Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer responds:
> “The oceans have warmed by an average of less than 0.1 deg. C (only the SURFACE by about 0.5 deg.) since the 1950s, and since that is so much water mass, the absorbed heat equivalent to 0.1 deg. IF RELEASED ALL AT ONCE IN THE ATMOSPHERE [it] would, indeed, be hundreds of degrees. But this is physically impossible. It is a meaningless statistic. The heat actually had to go through the atmosphere before it reached the ocean.”
Scaremongering, much?
(H/T: Newsbusters)
