Forces of Nature Which Impact Weather and Climate, Part 15 -
Ocean Currents
John Shanahan
August 23, 2025
Since the 1960s, alarmist climate change reports by the UN IPCC, World Economic Forum, Sierra Club, Green Peace, Natural Resources Defense Council, the Vatican, National Academies of Science, Union of Concerned Scientists, their early predecessors, thousands of other organizations and individuals, and even some non-alarmist scientists have focused on infrared radiation coming off the heated land and ocean surfaces and acting on “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere. They claim this process determines Earth’s weather, climate, and regional temperatures.
Most are doing this to stop the use of fossil fuels and to sequester manmade carbon dioxide and turn this gas to stone!!! Isn’t this preposterous climate science? Man-made carbon dioxide is far from the most influential factor in determining weather, climate, and regional temperatures of this planet with its vast oceans.
Many aspects of the oceans play dominant roles. One aspect is the global ocean currents. They are caused by the sun and heat from the Earth’s core, not tiny amounts of carbon dioxide and water vapor in the atmosphere, socalled greenhouse gases.
Global ocean currents are part of the planet’s heating and cooling system. See the two charts below.
It doesn’t take a scientific wizard to know that these massive ocean currents are part of the heating and air conditioning system of the planet. Only a water planet, like Earth, has this kind of heating and air conditioning system.
Ocean currents are driven by sunlight and heat from Earth’s core. The other part of the heating and air conditioning system includes many processes in the atmosphere. Evaporation from the oceans and delivery of pure water as rain and snow to the continents are vital parts of the weather. They are covered in separate articles.
Ocean currents are not driven by the “greenhouse effect,” supposedly caused by weak longwave infrared radiation that has never harmed a flea.
But that is the baloney politicians, non-profit organizations, the mainstream media, universities, high schools, and middle schools in Australia, Europe, and North America have been demanding we believe.
To make ocean currents flow, heat, and cool the planet without the sun and heat from Earth’s core would take many times all the power plants in the world. The sun and heat from Earth’s core do it easily and for free. Manmade global warming alarmists insist that Earth’s global average temperature is controlled by very weak long-wave infrared radiation acting on tiny amounts of additional man-made atmospheric carbon dioxide. They ignore the many roles of the oceans. Who tells the biggest lies to everyone on Earth?