Letter: Oceans are warming at a staggering rate

Letter: Oceans are warming at a staggering rate

Anthony Watts brushes off ocean warming as a natural cycle or some cloud quirk, but nature disagrees. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation is real. But it is a rhythm, not a driver of long-term warming. Watts is blaming a tide on a passing wavelet. The steady rise in ocean heat is coming from greenhouse gases trapping energy, not short-term wiggles. Scientists already account for clouds and aerosols. Sure, fewer reflective aerosols allow a bit more s…