UN IPCC’s Kevin Trenberth: Ocean will eat global warming for next 20 years
NPR: Fast forward 25 years, and Trenberth still sees changes in ocean temperature as key to understanding the ups and downs of global climate. That includes the current plateau in global temperature. Trenberth says, in fact, the planet has continued to warm during this time — but the heat has been flowing into the oceans, which have a vast capacity to absorb it. So will the oceans come to our rescue? “That’s a good question, and the answer is maybe partly yes, but maybe partly no,” [Kevin Trenberth] says.