I have read the short article “Warming Oceans Appear Linked to Increasing Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases” by Barbara Goss Levi (Physics Today, June 2001, page 19) and find the logic quite flawed. There is no evidence for rising temperatures in the atmosphere above the boundary layer. How the mean atmospheric temperature can remain essentially constant while warming the oceans is never explained (no phase change is involved). The idea that a rising ocean temperature, if indeed the ocean is warming, must be due to greenhouse gases because the proponents cannot think of anything else is not science. It’s pseudoscience!
© 2001 American Institute of Physics.
2001
American Institute of Physics
