North Pacific Warming In 2014 "Far Beyond Any Recorded Value" - NOAA Scientists

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Oceans are the focus as warming seems to be in an accelerated phase, at least in terms of surface temperatures. Any claims about “slowdown” or “pause” no longer operative.

CBC:

​Bill Peterson, an oceanographer with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the warmth along the North Pacific coast is very unusual. “We’ve never seen this before. It’s beyond anyone’s experience and this is why it’s puzzling,” he said.

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To further complicate the picture, Peterson says an El Niño warm water ocean current should arrive in about a month. “We’ll have what we call a double whammy,” he said. “It’s already very warm up north, up here. If we get an extra push of super warm water from the tropics, we could possibly have a big disaster on our hands, ecologically speaking.”

EDIT

http://climatecrocks.com/2014/11/23/north-pacific-warm-spot-worries-scientists/#more-21239

[Turbineguy]

1. Maybe the melting ice

is causing and increased convective effect?

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2. They should have put this out a month ago...

SSTs have faded, the last 12 weeks:

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/clim/sst.anom.anim.html

[pscot]

3. Same as last year

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4. Rec!