Friday, July 24, 2026

The Saturation Chronicles - 23

The Weld-Blundell Prism. (Ashmolean Museum / CC BY-SA 4.0)
Old Oceanography Data

When Grist came out with this article on Nov 07, 2025, this Dredd Blog series was already at The Saturation Chronicles - 14.

Yes, Dredd Blog published 14 relevant posts prior to the Grist article, the 14th one was posted about six months prior to the Grist article (see The Saturation Chronicles, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 , 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22).

That Grist article is fallacious to the extent that it, in addition to ignoring the Saturation Chronicles series, also ignores (The Photon Current, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22) and (In Search Of Ocean Heat, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22). 

The imagination in the Grist post leans upon a (IMO Warming Commentariat) paper: "Southern Ocean Heat Burp in a Cooling World" (I am reviewing the references used by the Burp' paper and so far find no TEOS-10 references)..

Those who use official up to date oceanography TEOS-10 ("TEOS-10 was adopted by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission at its 25th Assembly in June 2009 to replace EOS-80 as the official description of seawater and ice properties in marine science"), which that Grist article failed to use, will at once see the 'Burp' paper's lack of up-to-date ocean thermodynamic knowledge.

Ocean Heat ('potential enthalpy') is a TEOS-10 subject.

The previous post in this series is here.