Do monthly increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 from human emission sources cause ocean temperatures to consistently warm each month? That's what NOAA, politicians, the establishments' legacy MSM, and Hollywood celebrities want everyone to believe.
But actual empirical evidence from NOAA's own climate reporting system, as shown here, debunks that erroneous belief.
Literally, the warming trend of ocean waters has been ZERO since March 2014. Actually, it's a total of 111 months with a very tiny cooling trend.
As depicted by the dark blue, moving 24-month average, visually it is clear from the empirical evidence that sea waters exhibit significant changes in temperatures, both up and down.
Human CO2 emissions do NOT cause significant up/down variations of monthly sea temps.
Specifically, look at the last three columns (March, April & May 2023 respectively) of the chart. CO2 emissions did not all of a sudden cause those significant increases in temperature anomalies.
Instead, natural regional/global climate oscillations and patterns are the cause, as they can produce significant up/down temp changes on a monthly basis that affect both oceans and global land areas.
Climate oscillations, such as the periodical ENSO pattern, which can generate large increases/decreases in temperatures.
And in fact, climate and weather researchers have been predicting the last 12 months that an important change in the ENSO status would take place, changing from the La Niña to the El Niño phase. And over the last three months, that change has finally occurred.
This latest El Niño event is expected to significantly impact global warming average temperatures, per the experts.
But the natural ENSO oscillation is not the only natural climate variation that can produce a strong impact on both temperatures and other climate observations. This list identifies some 45+ oscillations/cycles/patterns that influence regional and global temperatures.
Additional global temperature charts.
Note: Excel used for plots/calculations of NOAA ocean temperature data through May 2023.