Mystery Of The Missing Heat: Upper Ocean Has Cooled Slightly In Recent Years . . .

Science News ^ | 9-30-2006 | Sid Perkins

[Enchante]

"scientists aren't sure where the heat went"

What's that movie with Ben Stiller where the running gag is "where does the poo go?" His character's friend has invented "VA-POO-RIZE" -- a spray that makes dog poo disappear, it would seem, until they find out what's really happening to it....

Seems like some good cartoons could be made showing the Algore-bots saying "where did the heat go, where did the heat go"

[raybbr]

Between 2003 and 2005, the top layers of the world's oceans cooled slightly, but scientists aren't sure where the heat went.

It went into air where it's melting the glaciers which are cooling the waters......

[RegulatorCountry]

It's clear that there is a correlation between CO2 and global temperature, but temperature seems to be more of a leading indicator of a rise in CO2, rather than the other way around.

[cookcounty]

"Between 2003 and 2005, the top layers of the world's oceans cooled slightly, but scientists aren't sure where the heat went.

According to climate data gathered worldwide, 2003, 2004, and 2005 are three of the five warmest years since reliable record keeping of global air temperatures

Uh....maybe into the air.....?

[MD_Willington_1976]

Must be all the welded hull aluminum ships floating around... aluminum makes a good heatsink...

[djf]

I find it hard to believe that the statistical models are accurate enough to pin down a 3/100 degree change... but who knows, 15 years ago I wouldn't have believed in GPS accuracy.

[Kimmers]

We're hot,we're cold then we're hot again than cold.......it isn't global warming we all have menopause!!!

[Paloma_55]

I take this chart to any political activity I go to because it shows that we are in the warmest possible period of a cycle that is likely to get much colder.

People are complaining of warming, but what do we do when the globe is 8 degrees C colder?? I live in Northern California where the glaciers will be pushing down into the lower elevations.

Mexico will be a nice place to live in about 1000 years and Canada will be completely covered in ice.

[RegulatorCountry]

Gaial Menopause, instead of global warming?

[shield]

bttt

[be4everfree]

I think they have the question wrong;

It's not where did the heat go ?

It should be where WAS the cold ?

I think if there have been fewer undersea volcanos, it would answer their question.

[RightWhale]

It is raining today and the temperature is 39 and holding steady all day. This should turn to snow by midnight. Posibly the roads will all be black ice by morning.

[Paladin2]

We continue to be DOOMED!

'rats can fix this, just ask them.

[driftless2]

I want to know what happened to all the hurricanes which were supposed to destroy the Atlantic and Gulf coasts after this so-called record year for high temperatures. After last years destructive 'canes, all the hystericrats were screeching about hot weather causing hurricanes. Well...where were they this year? Or is there still time for a level five? (smirk)

[Paladin2]

Temp leads on the downside. Usually CO₂ looks like it goes with temp on the upside. If it doesn't lead both ways, it seems unlikely to be causal.

We're still DOOMED!^{tm - 'rats} though.

[lepton]

Between 2003 and 2005, the top layers of the world's oceans cooled slightly, but scientists aren't sure where the heat went.

Hurricanes?

[Spirochete]

"Between 2003 and 2005, the top layers of the world's oceans cooled slightly, but scientists aren't sure where the heat went.

Uh....maybe into the air.....?

Maybe the excess heat wasn't there to begin with.

[DaveTesla]

Ping

Favorite Global Warmer of the day;

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1710760/posts
GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING ^

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming!"

Gore, who was introduced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the world faces a "full-scale climate emergency that threatens the future of civilization on earth."

Gore showed computer-generated projections of ocean water rushing in to submerge the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, parts of China, India and other nations, should ice shelves in Antarctica or Greenland melt and slip into the sea.

"The planet itself will do nicely, thank you very much what is at risk is human civilization," Gore said. After a series of Q& A with the audience, which had little to do with global warming and more about his political future, Annan bid "adios" to Gore.

Then, Gore had his staff opened a stack of cardboard boxes to begin selling his new book, "An Inconvenient Truth, The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It," $19.95, to the U.N. diplomats.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash6.htm

[Wonder Warthog]

"On the other hand, there's not a single thing we can do to stop global cooling: just bundle up, stay indoors and try to survive the cold weather and high food prices."

Not true. There are any number of things. Release lots of stable fluorocarbons (HUGE greenhouse gas effect). Deposit soot (black)in snow-covered areas to change the albedo. Melt the sub-sea methane clathrates to increase atmospheric methane (another very strong greenhouse gas). Build space-borne mirrors to concentrate more solar energy. Burn lots of coal. I suspect there are many others.

[El Gato]

You will be able to find somebody who says this cooling is caused by global warming.

It's possible the opposite is true, that the warming of the air is somehow caused by the cooling of the ocean. The heat from the ocean had to go somewhere. It could have gone into the atmosphere.