Re: Earth's energy imbalance: Confirmation and implications

William Asher wrote:

Paul E. Lehmann wrote:


About ten years ago I attended a "Brown Bag
Lunch" at NOAA in which a NOAA scientist made a
presentation on ocean temperatures and showed
the
areas of warming. They just so happened to
coincide with the "Ring of Fire". He claimed
he did not think there was any correlation
between the sub sea geothermal events along the
entire rim and ocean water temp.

As a Geologist, I am skeptical of his opinion.
Of course, I doubt Geology is ever put in the
models. Geology is just a study of the earth,
no reason for Climate people to be interested -
ha ha ha.


As a geologist you should be able to do a
back-of-the-envelope calculation on the amount
of heat that would be required to raise the
temperature of that much water and estimate
whether that energy could have come from an
increase in the geothermal heat flux under
realistic scenarios. Nothing is stopping you
from proving him wrong except you.

It's scary putting your ideas to the test and
having to defend your work,
but that is what science is all about. Ten
years is long enough to harbor an unrequited
grudge, I say go for it.


As a person with common sense and any brains at
all, if you see ocean temperatures
"Coincidentally" being located along geologic hot
spots and you refuse to at least question, then
you are stupid. I suppose YOU would even go so
far as to state the AGW is causing plate
tectonics. Hell, why not, it is causing all the
other horrible things on earth - right?
.