jeff_rigby
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I dismissed the missing Heat is going into the ocean bit. Deep water ocean currents are a result of salinity differences at the equator and polar regions. The cycle for water to move from pole to equator and back to have an impact and absorb more than steady state is: 1000 years. In geological terms, for the Ocean suddenly absorbing more from one year to the next or in a period of 5, 10 or 20 years would require light speed acceleration of the current, remember water is not compressible and has an immense inertia.It's obvious you either did not read the material I linked you to or could not understand it. I sent you to the intermediate version, but there is a basic tab that dumbs it down if that is more your speed.
If they are talking local and surface heating of water, I would think that either it's also steady state or would change with new or accelerating currents slowly over a period of 10's of years not immediately as seen after 2000. Same for warmer water at the same speed in the surface portion of the deep ocean conveyer. It should dampen...affect the slope of Global temperature change and would be directly related to temp increases. It should have shown up delayed by several years and could in no way suddenly show up in 2000 40 years later.
El Niño has a regional impact not global and could explain the colder weather in the US but it's about surface weather and surface water currents created by pressure differences between hot and cold atmospheric temps over the Pacific. El Nino creates on-shore wind currents and higher seas along the cost of California that reduce the cold water upwelling.
This October it's supposed to be warmer (El Niño) impacting weather in the North to central US and more rain in Caliornia. Remember Global warming is causing drought in California according to Democrats so this must be wrong. <sigh>During El Niño events, increased precipitation is expected in California due to a more southerly, zonal, storm track.[4] During La Niña, increased precipitation is diverted into the Pacific Northwest due to a more northerly storm track.[5]