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Oceans may explain slowdown in climate change: study
http://news.yahoo.com/oceans-may-explain-slowdown-climate-change-study-170410831.html;_ylt=ApjfM7kpRc.O8mxIlk7cEIMPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTUwcGJybmNhBGNjb2RlA2N0LmMEbWl0A01vc3QgUG9wdWxhciBTY2llbmNlBHBrZwNlZjdkNmUxZS1hNGUyLTMxYzctOTVjNS0zM2IxYjY1Mjk0YWMEcG9zAzcEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZE1vc3RQb3B1bGFyQ0FUZW1wBHZlcgM2ZTVlMjRlMS05ZmE1LTExZTItYjk5Zi0xZGM3MTRhNGFmNjQ-;_ylg=X3oDMTI5YjZ0Y2YwBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANzY2llbmNlBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QDTjRVX2hvbWVydW5hcGk-;_ylv=3 Experts in France and Spain said on Sunday that the oceans took up more warmth from the air around 2000. That would help explain the slowdown in surface warming but would also suggest that the pause may be only temporary and brief.
"Most of this excess energy was absorbed in the top 700 meters (2,300 ft) of the ocean at the onset of the warming pause, 65 percent of it in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic oceans," they wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Lead author Virginie Guemas of the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences in Barcelona said the hidden heat may return to the atmosphere in the next decade, stoking warming again.
"If it is only related to natural variability then the rate of warming will increase soon," she told Reuters.
"Most of this excess energy was absorbed in the top 700 meters (2,300 ft) of the ocean at the onset of the warming pause, 65 percent of it in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic oceans," they wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Lead author Virginie Guemas of the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences in Barcelona said the hidden heat may return to the atmosphere in the next decade, stoking warming again.
"If it is only related to natural variability then the rate of warming will increase soon," she told Reuters.
