Well water is about 1000 times as dense as air from 0 C to 30 C so the absolute density difference for water is still around (1000*0.05)/0.1 = 50 times as great.

No. Here’s what’s happening.

Again, there is no question that the temperature is going up. The “professional skeptics”, if you will, agree on that point. The only point of contention is the average rate of warming per doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration.

Sadly, you’re probably right.

Yes, there’s a difference between 10% and 0.5%. However, there’s nothing there that tells me whether or not that change is significant in this context.

No, the pause absolutely exists, it’s just that they are trying to figure out where the heat went.

Yes, it’s pulling up the graph, but by how much? Ten months of temperature data do not a decadal trend make. If the recent trend continues, however, then the hiatus is officially over.

No, the density difference is still the dominant effect as far as I know, which can be caused by both temperature and salinity differences.

I don’t think that’s correct. Even a small difference in density will cause convective currents, even if they move relatively slowly.

Ooops.

I though air was a gas and followed the ideal gas law where water is a fluid and does not.

Well, no, not exactly. There is no consensus yet as to what is causing the pause, hence the flurry of papers being written on the subject, many of which are proposing different mechanisms.

Name one thing in my post which is incorrect.

Wind-driven evaporative cooling is a good bet.

Both water and air are fluids, and hence behave in similar ways. Hot water is less dense than cold water down to about 4 degrees Centigrade. Hence it rises above cold water, much like hot air.

At this point “The Pause” has become synonymous with “The Thing That Never Happened” whenever a major news outlet reports on the subject. It’s kind of a “The Emperor Has No Clothes” type of situation.

“A Kaffir is to be taxed because he does not work enough: an Indian is to be taxed because he works too much.” ~ CWMG, Vol. III, p. 337

Hey, are you in this picture?

Yes, because it’s totally our fault that we have to bolster up our nuclear defenses right now...

Dumb.