On Monday, 3 February 2014 22:29:23 UTC, another sock wrote:

Well that's a disappointingly feeble attempt at a verbal insult for someone
usually adept at a much more Joycean turn of phrase. But you're right, gyres
are very much a topic of the moment:

http://goo.gl/PrNckl

Afraid you'll have to put up with a mention of the dreaded C word though.

It actually starts off with a nonse one:

"Because the oceans cover some 71% of the Earth's surface and are capable of retaining heat around a thousand times that of the atmosphere, the oceans are where most of the energy from global warming is going..."

Or were you too dawlish to realise it?

While the temperatures of the ocean surfaces at or very near the equator are extremely important when there is little or no wind shear, temperatures further from zero latitude tend to translate into pressure rather more readily.

So any talk about global warming goes out the window in the tropics.
Now martial your particulates and get a life, soldier!