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First, I have to thank Anthony Watts for asking and allowing me to be a part of the inaugural WattsUpWithThat-TV special. I’m honored, as I am every time Anthony cross posts one of my blog posts. And I really have to thank Anthony for allowing me to pre-record my presentation. I haven’t given a live presentation in about 2 decades and the thought of it did not make me happy.
At present, my presentation (Part 1) is scheduled for 6:00PM (PST) or 9:00 (EST).
My presentation is The Natural Warming of the Global Oceans. For those viewers without scientific backgrounds, I’ve tried to make it as non-technical as possible.
The IPCC and other proponents of anthropogenic global warming have relied on the general public’s lack of understanding of the natural processes that cause the oceans to warm. The IPCC et al (I wonder if Al Gore thinks “et al” means “and Al Gore”) would have preferred of course that everyone remained in the dark.
Hopefully after watching my presentation, viewers will have a better understanding of those processes. And hopefully the viewers will be as amazed as I was at how blatantly obvious it is that the warming occurred naturally. It’s really tough to miss once you know how it works.
After about a 5-minute lead-in, there are 3 primary topics:
1. Introduction to El Niño and La Niña.
2. Long-term impacts of major El Niño and La Niña events on sea surface temperatures.
3. Impacts of El Niño and La Niña and other natural variables on Ocean Heat Content.
But the topics are so interrelated that you can’t provide a detailed discussion of El Niño and La Niña processes without explaining why the sea surface temperatures of the global oceans have warmed over the past 30 years. And you can’t discuss El Niño and La Niña without also explaining why the Ocean Heat Content of the tropics has warmed. Conversely, you can’t discuss the long-term warming of the sea surface temperature and ocean heat content without discussing El Niño and La Niña.
Due to the length of my presentation I’ve had to divide it into two parts. Part 1, which is the scheduled presentation, covers all three topics with the exception of the ocean heat content warming outside of the tropics. I’ve also included brief discussions of the natural warming of other metrics such lower troposphere temperature (TLT) and land surface air plus sea surface temperature datasets like those available from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
Then, in part 2, there is a more detailed discussion of the natural warming of the Ocean Heat Content data outside of the tropics, and a good look at the problems with ocean heat content data. I’ve provided part 2 as a fallback video for Anthony, just in case he encounters some technical problems. If part 2 is not used in the WattsUpWithThat-TV special, it will be posted on YouTube, as will part 1.
Back to part 1: I used lots of illustrations from my book Who Turned on the Heat? including the cartoon-like annotated illustrations from Section 1. Of course, there are graphs of different data to confirm many of the topics.
Lots of graphs. And there are animations. In addition to those I’ve created, I’ve included a great animation from the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio called Visualizing El Niño. And there’s a look at a sea level animation from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to illustrate a portion of the ENSO process that is not visible in sea surface temperature or ocean heat content data.
Other than my book, this is my most detailed presentation on the natural warming of the global oceans. I hope the viewers find it interesting and enlightening.
As soon as the WattsUpWithThat-TV special is over on Thursday evening, I’ll provide YouTube versions of both parts.