Global Warming is Worse Than Thought

I have posted before about how most of the heat from greenhouse gases is going into the oceans, and I've posted before about how global warming may be nonlinear and accelerating rather than linear as most forecasts are. 



A new study supports the nonlinear change in global warming. 

[A] study published Wednesday in the journal Nature suggests that oceans are warming far faster than the estimates laid out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the global organization for climate data.
In October, the panel released a major report predicting that some of the worst effects of climate change, including coastal flooding, food shortages and a mass die-off of coral reefs, could come to pass as soon as 2040 if human greenhouse gas emissions continue at current levels. The I.P.C.C. report showed that scientists may have been underestimating the severity of the world’s present climate trajectory.
The new ocean temperature estimates, if proven accurate, could be another indication that the global warming of the past few decades has exceeded conservative estimates and has been more closely in line with scientists’ worst-case scenarios.
As the oceans reach a saturation point, which depends on it's temperature, it will be releasing carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.  When that happens, atmospheric temperatures will begin to rapidly climb.  In the meantime, as the ocean's warm, they will expand just from the increase in temperature and simultaneously melt that part of Antarctica ice over the water more rapidly.  Which mean an accelerating increase in sea level. 

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