yea yea yea initial conditions and all that. But I forgot how this all started and I am unsure of what point you are trying to make. Evidentially chaos isn’t preventing climate models from providing consistent climate sensitivity output so…?
“And you can’t really eyeball in a correlation of ENSO with the NODC. Apart from the fact that the NODC data – which integrates temperature to 700m – doesn’t seem consistent with CERES or with ocean data to 1500m and below.”
If the data’s all wrong and we can’t spot it visually (1998 should stick out like a sore thumb if it mattered) then the claim that the recent La Nina has failed to recharge OHC is without foundation.
Unless the claim isn’t about *global* OHC, in which case we sharply downgrade the significance of the claim.