The amount of sea level rise that comes from the oceans warming and expanding has been underestimated, and could be about twice as much as previously calculated, German researchers have said.
A new scientific report out this past week in Science Magazine, a prestigious American journal, gives fresh impetus to the connection between oceans warming as a result of climate change and the increased severity of hurricanes.
But to suggest global warming exists only because climate scientists need the money, you need to ignore melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, increasing extreme weather events, strings of record hot years, retreating glaciers, acidifying oceans, warming sea temperatures and bleaching corals.
We can also decarbonize the economy, drawdown our greenhouse gas emissions, and maybe stop the oceans warming up and supercharging future hurricanes, if we're feeling particularly ambitious.
The carbon dioxide we are releasing is changing the climate, the wind and precipitation patterns, acidifying the oceans, warming the habitats for plants and animals, melting glaciers and ice sheets, increasing the frequency of wildfires and raising sea levels.
As strange as it might seem considering the increasingly frightening data and scientific studies being published nearly data (Greenland's Melting Ice Nears a 'Tipping Point,' Scientists Say - NY Times, Oceans warming faster than expected: scientists - Reuters), the effects of climate change are not yet thought of as "Bad" by most Americans.
When oceans warm, fish migrate.
But as the ice age ended and the oceans warmed, all of them collapsed.
The oceans warmed so much in 2013, NODC is going to need a bigger graph.
Suppose the oceans warm up a bit, as they regularly do as part of natural climate cycles.
In that sense, global warming is really ocean warming".
