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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (40325)	5/31/2013 3:44:56 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 86356

The 500 km I used is inaccurate so we should correct for that too. Here's the ocean volume, conveniently calculated for us and now quite accurate. It's from 2010 There is only 368 times as many atmospheres of water as of air [not the 500 I wildly guessed]. Using your adjustment of 3x that would make it 1000 times as much heat can go in the oceans as in air. I like how rough estimates end up remarkably accurate. After 100 years of Global Warming "we" have achieved 0.7 degrees Celsius. At the same rate, with 1000 times as much heat being absorbable in the ocean, the temperature of the ocean would increase less than is measurable by regular humans even with a thermometer. 0.0007 degrees Celsius increase of the oceans over 100 years isn't going to do much to anything. It's just insignificant. Yet the Global Alarmists seem to be hanging their hopes on Ocean Warming now instead of hot air, since hot air isn't happening. The heat is supposedly bypassing the air theory of global warming and diving straight into the ocean instead. Since the CO2 in air theory is the driving mechanism of Global Warming, it suggests the assumptions of the CO2 theory are bung. The main faulty part of their theory is that Earth was in Balance, with happy harmony in stable equilibrium and that extra CO2 was putting it "out of balance". Mqurice livescience.com A group of scientists used satellite measurements to get new estimates of these values, which turned out to be 0.3 billion cubic miles (1.332 billion cubic kilometers) for the volume of the oceans and 12,080.7 feet (3,682.2 meters) for the average ocean depth. Both of these numbers are less than many previous estimates of the ocean's volume and depth. [iframe id="google_ads_iframe_/10518929/tmn.ls/environment_3" name="google_ads_iframe_/10518929/tmn.ls/environment_3" width="575" height="185" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" style="border-width: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;"][/iframe] "A lot of water values are taken for granted," said Matthew Charette, an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Mass., who led the new audit of the oceans. "If you want to know the water volume on the planet, you Google it and you get five different numbers, most of them 30- or 40-year-old values." Crude measurements of volume The depth estimate of 2.3 miles is about 69 to 167 feet (21 to 51 meters) less than previous estimates. (Some areas of the ocean, such as the Mariana Trench (at nearly 7 miles or 11 km deep) are of course much deeper than the average, while other areas, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are shallower.) The researchers report that the world’s total ocean volume is less than the most recent estimates by a volume equivalent to about five times the Gulf of Mexico, or 500 times the Great Lakes. While that might seem a lot at first glance, it is only about 0.3 percent lower than the estimates of 30 years ago. That small difference shows how accurate even crude measurement techniques were at estimating the ocean's volume. As long ago as 1888, for example, John Murray dangled lead weights from a rope off a ship to calculate an ocean volume — the product of ocean area and mean ocean depth — just 1.2 percent greater than the figure reported by Charette and his colleague Walter H.F. Smith, a geophysicist at the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Starting in the 1920s, researchers using echosounders improved depth estimates significantly, according to the researchers. Most recently, Smith and others have pioneered the use of satellites to calculate ocean volume.