Research report from Ocean University of China: Analyze why global warming slows down

One of the authors of the report, Professor Chen Xianyao of Ocean University of China, explained to a reporter from Xinhua News Agency that global temperature has been rising continuously over the past 150 years due to the massive emission of greenhouse gases by humans

Chen Xianyao said that compared with the atmosphere, high altitude or high latitude frozen areas, the ocean has a huge heat capacity, about 1,000 times that of the atmosphere

Chen Xianyao and another author of this report, Professor Dong Jiajie of the University of Washington, used global ocean observation data to analyze the temperature and salinity of the ocean at different depths.

Chen Xianyao said that there have been studies that the heat transfer to the deep sea mainly occurs in the Pacific Ocean, but their research has found that the heat transfer in the deep layers of the Pacific Ocean below 300 meters has not changed much in the past ten years.

Historical observational data show that this slowing of warming also occurred in the 1950s and 1970s, and it also caused concerns about whether the earth has begun to enter the Little Ice Age

Chen Xianyao said: "Our research results show that the internal change process of the climate system, especially the ocean, will regulate the process of global warming