Wednesday, September 24, 2014
"Study links changing winds to warming in Pacific"
Jeff Barnard reported this on the Associated Press website:
"The study compared ocean surface temperatures from 1900 to 2012 to surface air pressure, a stand-in for wind measurements, and found a close match.
'What we found was the somewhat surprising degree to which the winds can explain all the wiggles in the temperature curve,' said lead author Jim Johnstone, who did the work while a climatologist at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean at the University of Washington.
'So clearly, there are other factors stronger than the greenhouse forcing that is affecting those temperatures,' he added."
