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This is a follow up to the 2009 post here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170524023553/http://freakonomi...

which cites a BBC article stating:

> For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

> Professor Easterbrook says: “The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling.”

Needless to say, the 2009-2039 "cooling cycle" isn't off to a great start.

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You can an article saying anything. But the global ice meltoff is not imaginary.

I like to say, on a summer day you defrost your freezer. The kitchen, of course, gets cooler for a while. But once the ice is gone, its a hot summer day everywhere.

> But once the ice is gone, its a hot summer day everywhere.

Well that’s an extra depressing way to put it to me for some reason.

This is why a Blue Ocean Event (BOE) would really signal the start of a whole new climate regime. Not only because of the albedo change, but the energy that goes into melting ice is enormous; that heat energy would instead be transferred to the ocean water itself.

So profound and poetic.

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