What if they gave a meeting on Global Warming, and had to cancel it due to frozen pipes? You just can't make this stuff up . . . well, you could, but you don't have to, as Richard Harris reports for National Public Radio:
Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren't quite understanding what their robots are telling them.
Quite right - if you don't get the results you want, adjust the data.
"There has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant," Willis says. So the buildup of heat on Earth may be on a brief hiatus. "Global warming doesn't mean every year will be warmer than the last. And it may be that we are in a period of less rapid warming."
Gee, periods of warmer or cooler temperatures, at differing rates of change, seemingly unpredictable . . . in my youth, we called it "the weather."
Read the whole article at the link above. It's hilarious - until you realize these people are serious.
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"Josh Willis at NASA's Jet ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by iurockhead | March 20, 2008 6:03 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
"Josh Willis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the oceans are what really matter when it comes to global warming."
Exactly. Ocean temperatures are "smoothed" global temps, because the oceans heat and cool much more slowly than the air. They show the longer-term trend, without the short-term variation and location bias seen at individual surface locations. And they are cooling. Coincident with the sharp decrease in solar magnetic activity compared to the last 100 years. The connection between solar activity and climate has been made ad nauseum, most rectly in the book, "The Chilling Stars,", by Henrick Svensmark and Nigel Caulder. Whoda thunk it, the sun might actually control our climate. Wow.
1. Posted by iurockhead | March 20, 2008 6:03 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on March 20, 2008 18:03
2. Posted by Bill Duffy | March 20, 2008 7:19 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Yes! It's the data that counts. Not some preconceived notion that we the people are causing some made-up story of boiling ice causing melting water to float the world away. Al invented this too. just like the internet. Hopefully this data and the coming together of diverse opinions will make us stop and take another real close look at what is really happening? We need a great pause and a reching of the data. Not some mystic peddeling a myth.
2. Posted by Bill Duffy | March 20, 2008 7:19 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on March 20, 2008 19:19
3. Posted by Jeff | March 20, 2008 7:35 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
So can we call the rise in temps from 1970 - 1998 "a period of less rapid cooling" that we saw from 1940 - 1970 ...
3. Posted by Jeff | March 20, 2008 7:35 PM |
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Posted on March 20, 2008 19:35
4. Posted by John F Not Kerry | March 20, 2008 7:59 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"And it may be that we are in a period of less rapid warming"
Liberals don't understand spending either. When they ask for a 15% increase in the funding of something, and they only get a 5% increase, they cry about "spending cuts."
4. Posted by John F Not Kerry | March 20, 2008 7:59 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on March 20, 2008 19:59
5. Posted by Faith+1 | March 20, 2008 8:07 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
I like how a "slight cooling" is re-defined as "less rapid warming". That's like saying running backwards is "less forward motion".
It's not "less" it's the exact opposite.
Global warming is all about hot air.
5. Posted by Faith+1 | March 20, 2008 8:07 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on March 20, 2008 20:07
6. Posted by Oyster | March 20, 2008 9:09 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"I like how a "slight cooling" is re-defined as "less rapid warming". That's like saying running backwards is "less forward motion"."
lol!
6. Posted by Oyster | March 20, 2008 9:09 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on March 20, 2008 21:09
7. Posted by Craig | March 20, 2008 9:55 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
How can this article be, Al Gore said the science is settled? After reading the article it sounds like they don't have a freakin clue of what they are talking about. But hey we should run our economy into the ground based on what they think, right?
7. Posted by Craig | March 20, 2008 9:55 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on March 20, 2008 21:55
8. Posted by Al Gore | March 20, 2008 10:13 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
I changed it to "Climate Change" for a reason, this covers any weather differences and they are all caused by man.
I think I will have to call this new thing "Negative Warming"
8. Posted by Al Gore | March 20, 2008 10:13 PM |
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Posted on March 20, 2008 22:13
9. Posted by David | March 20, 2008 11:46 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The Earth HAS to be warming, 'cause if it isn't my government funding is in the crapper.
9. Posted by David | March 20, 2008 11:46 PM |
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Posted on March 20, 2008 23:46
10. Posted by Houston | March 21, 2008 9:28 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I enjoyed how the scientist admitted they don't know what is going on at the end of the article. We have been listening to scientist after scientist scream about global warming for years and years, but they also repeatedly admit they don't understand all the complexities behind our climate.
Sounds like local weatherman guess work to me.
10. Posted by Houston | March 21, 2008 9:28 AM |
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Posted on March 21, 2008 09:28
11. Posted by Jo | March 21, 2008 1:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Lying democrats exposed again. LOVE IT!!!
11. Posted by Jo | March 21, 2008 1:54 PM |
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Posted on March 21, 2008 13:54
12. Posted by Spurwing Plover | March 22, 2008 10:28 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Global warming is a large amount of HOT AIR comming from AL GORE and the green-freaks SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK
12. Posted by Spurwing Plover | March 22, 2008 10:28 PM |
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Posted on March 22, 2008 22:28