{"id":6283,"date":"2015-03-07T08:09:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T13:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6283"},"modified":"2015-03-07T08:09:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T13:09:16","slug":"a-major-surge-in-atmospheric-warming-is-probably-coming-in-the-next-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6283","title":{"rendered":"A Major Surge in Atmospheric Warming Is Probably Coming in the Next Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"article-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/we-may-see-a-supercharged-surge-in-warming\" target=\"_blank\">A Major Surge in Atmospheric Warming Is Probably Coming in the Next Five Years<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Forget the so-called \u2018pause\u2019 in global warming\u2014new research says we might be in for an era of deeply accelerated heating.<\/p>\n<p>While the rate of atmospheric warming in recent years has, indeed, slowed due to various natural weather cycles\u2014hence the skeptics\u2019 droning on about \u201cpauses\u201d\u2014global warming, as a whole, has not stopped. Far from it. It\u2019s actually\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-consensus-97-per-cent\/2013\/jun\/24\/global-warming-pause-button\">sped up<\/a>, dramatically, as excess heat has absorbed into the oceans. We\u2019ve only begun to realize the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/mystery-of-ocean-heat-deepens-as-climate-changes\/\">extent of this phenomenon in recent years<\/a>, after scientists developed new technologies capable of measuring ocean temperatures with a depth and precision that was previously lacking.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dspace.library.uu.nl\/handle\/1874\/231620\">paper<\/a>\u00a0in Geophysical Research Letters tallied up the total warming data from land, air, ice, and the oceans. In 2012, the lead author of that study, oceanographer John Church,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0375960112010389\">updated his research<\/a>. What Church found was shocking: in recent decades, climate change has been adding on average around 125 trillion Joules of heat energy to the oceans per second.<\/p>\n<p>How to convey this extraordinary fact? His team came up with an analogy: it was roughly the same amount of energy that would be released by the detonation of two atomic bombs the size dropped on Hiroshima. In other words, these scientists found that anthropogenic climate is warming the oceans at a rate equivalent to around two Hiroshima bombs per second. But as new data came in, the situation has looked worse: over the last 17 years, the rate of warming has doubled to about four bombs per second. In 2013, the rate of warming\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/02\/05\/last_year_the_oceans_warmed_at_a_rate_of_12_hiroshima_bombs_per_second\/\">tripled<\/a>\u00a0to become equivalent to 12 Hiroshima bombs every second.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Major Surge in Atmospheric Warming Is Probably Coming in the Next Five Years Forget the so-called \u2018pause\u2019 in global warming\u2014new research says we might be in for an era of deeply accelerated heating. While the rate of atmospheric warming in recent years has, indeed, slowed due to various natural weather cycles\u2014hence the skeptics\u2019 droning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3981,141,369,3983,3982],"class_list":["post-6283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-atmospheric-warming","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-heat-energy","tag-john-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6284,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions\/6284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}