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Friday, November 01, 2013
Letters Editor, National Post
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Hiroshima mon amour
Dear Editor,
Climate hystericalists might be on to something with the Hiroshima bomb analogy the Peter Foster column mentions on November 1st. The “RealClimate” website indicates the hiatus in atmospheric warming over the past decade or so may be due to the oceans absorbing more heat from the atmosphere than anticipated. That heat, said to be equal to a Hiroshima bomb equivalent every second, is estimated to have warmed the ocean on average 0.04 degrees in 30 years. Extrapolation indicates ocean warming of just 1.6 degrees C in 1200 years.
Is it possible atmospheric heat transfer to the oceans may buffer dreaded global warming till fossil fuels run out?
Yours truly,
Duane Pendergast