NOAA’s Graph Provides Best Evidence That Solar Heating Is Warming the Oceans, Not CO2
22 hours ago
Jim Steele
NOAA’S Climate.gov’s Ocean Heat Content presents an illustration (graphic A) of changing ocean heat content with this accompanying narrative. “Rising amounts of greenhouse gases are preventing heat radiated from Earth’s surface from escaping into space as freely as it used to. Most of the excess atmospheric heat is passed back to the ocean.” However, their regional changes in heat content are much more consistent with solar heating than from greenhouse theory.
Although greenhouse theory describes rising CO2 as acting like a blanket across the globe that keeps more heat in the ocean, graphic A perfectly depicts asymmetric heating that we would expect from solar heating and ocean circulation (graphic B). The greatest increase in heat content happens along the east coasts (highlighted by red ovals), especially in the Kuroshio Current off Japan, and the Gulf Stream.
Why such regional differences from the same CO2 blanket?
Graphic C, from peer reviewed research (Huang 2015), describes the net heat flux in and out of oceans. The red and yellow colors represent where more heat enters the ocean than leaves, yet NOAA shows cooling in those regions. The blue colors in graphic C, show where more heat is ventilating back to space than that region absorbs, yet NOAA’s graph shows those regions warming! Observations completely contradict NOAA’s greenhouse warming narrative.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/27/noaas-graph-provides-best-evidence-that-solar-heating-is-warming-the-oceans-not-co2/
