Heat waves happen at the bottom of the ocean too First assessment of bottom marine heat waves opens a window on the deep. First assessment, eh? Seems like a bit of a problem to me for the whole AGW as proven science scenario. If this is the first assessment, then how has it been conclusively ruled out of its role in the past century and a half's warming trend? After all, the deep ocean substantially dwarfs all other CO2 reservoirs on the planet. Warmer deep ocean water releases more CO2, possibly negating the net ocean uptake shown in this diagram, and possibly releasing at least as much CO2 to the atmosphere as that big red 9 attributed human activities. Given that none of these quantities are exact and that the big scary 4 net increase represents 0.01% of the planet's primary CO2 reservoir, the deep ocean, then all of this science has to prove this carbon balance with this level of accuracy to definitively assert that the cause is known. Not entirely possible is it if this is the first assessment of deep ocean heatwaves?
Yes it is. Lot’s of coverage of this on the same day that the IPCC screams that there are only minutes left to save the planet. I’d be much more inclined to listen if they simply advised that at our current rates of consumption we’ve well less than 100 years worth of proven relatively cheap conventional oil and gas reserves. So there is that minor disagreement we have with one another, alas.
