By Andy May A considerable amount of new information on ocean temperature has been gathered since I last wrote about the subject in 2016. In my last post on GHCN and the National Temperature Index, it appeared that ocean temperature trends and the thermal energy distribution in oceans dominate climate change. Land-based weather stations areContinue reading “Ocean Temperature Update”
Category Archives: Ocean Temperature
The phytoplankton decline, is there anything to it?
By Andy May We have been told that the phytoplankton population is declining rapidly around the world and, of course, the cause is climate change. Phytoplankton is the base of the ocean food chain and it accounts for about half of global primary productivity or organic matter creation (Boyce, Lewis and Worm 2010). Phytoplankton isContinue reading “The phytoplankton decline, is there anything to it?”
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Do humans harm the environment?
By Andy May This is the first of seven posts on the potential costs and hazards of human-caused global warming and the impact of humans on the environment in general. The IPCC WGII AR5 Technical Summary, defines “hazards” on page 39: “The potential occurrence of a natural or human-induced physical event or trend or physicalContinue reading “Do humans harm the environment?”
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Climate and Civilization for the past 4,000 years
Present warming is not unusual.
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Using R and JAMSTEC NetCDF Files to Examine Ocean Temperatures
We examine ocean temperatures with an R program
