On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:29:51 -0400, Jeff Rigby wrote:


2) Seems that there are self correcting processes related to global warming.
The deep ocean temperature has decreased .05 degrees in the last two years.
That's a massive cool-off as the trend has been for deep ocean temps to go
up a small amount each year for the last forty. One theory is that the
hurricanes and cloud cover itself generated by the warmer waters of the
Atlantic actually cool the ocean. You take a major storm system that pulls
warm moisture off the oceans surface, takes it up to the upper atmosphere
and cools it then dumps this cooled water back onto the ocean surface as
rain and we have a system that corrects for global warming of ocean water.

Perhaps not, it's a complex system that we don't completely understand,
but that deep water cooling may not be a correction for global warming, it
might be a symptom.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/st...654803,00.html