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Global ocean temperatures drop to coldest in 6 1/2 years
vanity based on Data from NOAA ^ | 9.17.07 | Dangus

Posted on 09/17/2007 11:13:01 AM PDT by dangus

The temperature of the ocean has cooled 0.2 degrees C in the past few of years, and is now only 0.1 degrees C warmer than it was throughout much of 1944. This data set had been showing a general warming trend since the late 1970s, (as well as a warming trend from the 1910s through the mid 1940s) with the warmest time being recorded in the El Nino year of 1998.

Despite temperatures peaking in 1998, it's been reasonable to describe the temperature trend as continuing, since 1998 at the time was a flukishly hot spell. Since 1998, the "normal" trend line approached what had been flukishly warm.

The reversal to cooler temperatures is not yet long or strong enough to discredit global warming completely... by a long shot. However, global warming alarmists had been warning that global warming had dramatically accelerated in the past couple decades; although ocean temperatures had risen a mere degree over the last century, the alarmists had warned of an increasing rate of warming, or even an increasing rate of an increasing rate of warming, suggesting the next century could see temperatures increase by several degrees.

Although this data is still consistent with a long, gradual trend of increasing ocean temperatures, it is not consistent with any sudden accelerations in warming trends.

My source is a data table at the NOAA, which could not be linked to directly, since it is available over file transfer protocol (FTP), not hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). This is the link: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/anomalies/monthly.ocean.90S.90N.df_1901-2000mean.dat It may be accessed from the bottom of the page I linked to in the source field, under "The Monthly Global Ocean Temperature Anomalies (degrees C)." My source is purely the data; the web page from which I derived it has not been updated to reflect any updated data.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; coastalenvironment; dangus; environment; globalcooling; globalwarming; goebbelswarming; gorebullwarning; theskyisfalling; wereallgonnadie
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To: Puppage

41 posted on 09/17/2007 11:34:45 AM PDT by crazyshrink
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To: OKSooner

It was my fault. We haven’t been fishing much this summer. My wife’s been sick. Maybe I can warm up the waters with a new boat?.................


42 posted on 09/17/2007 11:36:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Also, it seems like the “normal” trend is approaching the abnormal or “flukish” range, which seems — shall we say — odd.”

Come on: To be fair, I was referring to what HAD been abnormal, and seemed to be becoming normal.


43 posted on 09/17/2007 11:37:01 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
It must be true. Gore is moonlighting!!

44 posted on 09/17/2007 11:42:24 AM PDT by crazyshrink
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To: dangus
Global ocean temperatures drop to coldest in 6 1/2 years...

These scientists claiming that ocean temps are dropping are NOT on the ball here. What they should be doing is claiming that there is a process of "Global Ocean Temp Change" (man-induced) going on. This in turn is driving "Global Climate Change". That way, they are covered for the following four cases:

1. Ocean temps rise causes global warming, or

2. Ocean temps rise causes global cooling, or

3. Ocean temps fall causes global warming, or

4. Ocean temps fall causes global cooling.

Gotta cover your bases if you want to continue your grant research!

45 posted on 09/17/2007 11:43:09 AM PDT by C210N
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To: JustDoItAlways

yeah, check out the La Nina almost reaching Australia. The wierd part: La Ninas normally form as the rebound of an El Nino. There wasn’t much of an El Nino before this La Nina.


46 posted on 09/17/2007 11:43:27 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Owl_Eagle
"See, jerks. Driving around in my Prius is having some effect."

How arrogant of you Owl_Eagle!

Everyone knows it's because I'm taking shorter showers and only buying local produce.

47 posted on 09/17/2007 11:48:18 AM PDT by libs_kma (www.imwithfred.com)
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To: dangus

Global Oceans colder ! !

Really? Has the ice pack in what is about to become a usable NorthWest Passage been memoed?


48 posted on 09/17/2007 11:52:54 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: Owl_Eagle
See, jerks. Driving around in my Prius is having some effect.

You might want to drive an old pickup on the weekends or something, before we're shoveling snow in August.

49 posted on 09/17/2007 11:53:54 AM PDT by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: capt. norm

Opposite here in the keys


50 posted on 09/17/2007 11:55:53 AM PDT by italianquaker (Is there anything Ron Paul doesn't blame the USA for?)
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To: All

Oh come on now! Us Global Warming experts KNOW that part of the effects of global warming are the world’s oceans getting colder...............


51 posted on 09/17/2007 11:57:22 AM PDT by WBL 1952
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To: GladesGuru

Check out the map in post # 29.


52 posted on 09/17/2007 11:58:28 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
The earth goes through endless cycles of Hothouse Earth and Snowball Earth. The fact that your Aunt Emma has an SUV (or that Al Gore pollutes enough for 200 people) is utterly irrelevant.


53 posted on 09/17/2007 11:59:11 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

My God, that’s ridiculous! Is that in a textbook???


54 posted on 09/17/2007 12:01:18 PM PDT by dangus
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To: JustDoItAlways

I just compared 9/17 to 8/16. It’s tough to eyeball these things, but I’d say it’s fair to conclude that September is shaping up to be at least as cool, wouldn’t you?


55 posted on 09/17/2007 12:13:27 PM PDT by dangus
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To: uncbob

“Where are all the hurricanes this year”

Not to sound like I believe in this global warming #!*ap.

We just had two that hit Mexico and Hondouras.
One was a class FIVE.

Hurricane ANDREW was a class five when it hit south FL.


56 posted on 09/17/2007 12:20:09 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: italianquaker

Installation of a huge swimming pool heater will cure this problem


57 posted on 09/17/2007 12:29:08 PM PDT by myuhaul
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To: myuhaul

Yes but the fish wont like it


58 posted on 09/17/2007 12:44:02 PM PDT by italianquaker (Is there anything Ron Paul doesn't blame the USA for?)
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To: dangus

The simple response from the liberals is: “Bush is fudging the numbers”.


59 posted on 09/17/2007 12:46:05 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: dangus

The colder it is, the more CO2 it can absorb.


60 posted on 09/17/2007 12:47:16 PM PDT by kabar
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