LOL, Global Warming Paused as Supposedly, Winds Heat the Pacific

For most of the 21st century, the average surface air temperature around the world didn’t increase as rapidly as computer models predicted. Although still approximately 1.53 degrees F (0.85 C) warmer than in 1880, the Earth’s atmospheric fever held relatively steady during the past decade.

LOL, Global Warming Paused as Supposedly, Winds Heat the Pacific Storymaker-animals-climate-change-1205305-514x268

LOL, Global Warming Paused as Supposedly, Winds Heat the Pacific Storymaker-animals-climate-change-1205305-514x268

The reason for that climate change plateau puzzles atmospheric scientists. The answer may be blowing in the trade winds, persistent surface winds that flow from east to west near the equator.

Since late 1990s, abnormally strong winds blowing across the Pacific may have trapped heat from the air in the ocean’s waters. Recent research suggested that the trapped heat slowed average global temperature increases during the past 13 years. However, when the winds slow down to normal, the heat could escape quickly and cause rapid warming of the Earth’s atmosphere.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/global-warming-stalled-as-winds-heat-the-pacific-140210.htm

LOL, Global Warming Paused as Supposedly, Winds Heat the Pacific

LOL, Global Warming Paused as Supposedly, Winds Heat the Pacific

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