No matter who is talking, average surface temperature trends on Earth aren’t going to float everyone’s boat. Because they don’t want to acknowledge what their eyes see.
such is the make-up of a denier of manmade global warming, who as readily jump to nitpicking as they do to cherrypicking.
what about Ocean Heat Content (OHC) as described by NOAA’s NCEI branch in its global climate report for 2020.
i draw your attention particularly to the last paragraph of text below.
NOAA:
“OHC is essential for understanding and modeling global climate since > 90% of excess heat in the Earth's system is absorbed by the ocean. Further, expansion due to increased ocean heat contributes to sea level rise. Change in OHC is calculated from the difference of observed temperature profiles from the long-term mean.
“The annual global OHC for 2020 is relatively unchanged from 2019, previously the highest annual OHC on record: while the 0–700m OHC is slightly lower, the 0–2000m annual global OHC is slightly higher than in 2019. The six highest OHC have all occurred in the last six years (2015–20).
“During 2020, the heating was distributed throughout the world's oceans, with higher rates of warming in the northern and southern Atlantic and in localized zones of the Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans.
”The ocean heating is irrefutable and a key measure of the Earth's energy imbalance: the excess greenhouse gases in the air trap more heat inside the climate system and drives global warming.
“More than 90% of the heat accumulates in the ocean because of its large heat capacity, and the other heating is manifested in warming the atmosphere, warming and drying land, and melting land and sea ice. There are no reasonable alternatives aside from the human emissions of heat-trapping gases (IPCC 2001, 2007, 2013, 2020; USGCRP 2017).”
