The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat

The oceans take a long time to adjust to the surrounding temperature. The oceans are an immense heat/cold storage unit. Since they are so vast, it’s hard to take their temperature. Averaging the temperature readings of a few units at the surface does not produce a useable number.
No conclusion can be draws, in other words.

After the water droplet effect, we have the ice crystal effect and the water vapor effect as well. I wonder the the aggregate specific heat of the water in the atmosphere is compared to the aggregate specific heat of the surface water (ocean, icepack, lakes, streams and surface groundwater).

One way of having fun with liberals is to ask them to how far down water lines have to be placed in order to protect them from freezing. Around here, in central Missouri, it is about 30 inches. Someone from Alaska told me they bury lines six feet. My next question is to ask just how much energy it takes to freeze the all the surface water, and all the soil down two feet from all of central North America northward. Now consider how much energy it takes in the spring to thaw all that out and compare that to how much energy that humans use. The ratio is many magnitudes. Yet, GlobalLukewarmers asset that humans can somehow swamp that process, so that humans can reduce the average.

I think that human energy usage and human impact on the climate is so slight in comparison to the heatflows from natural process that it falls within the natural ‘noise’ of the system when viewed over time, that is to say on a decade timescale.

To approach it from the viewpoint that we see here,

you have to accept Anthropogenic Global Warming as the baseline Given.

And we’re seeing that - they’re trying to make every observable phenomena fit this Given.

Just a(nother) crazy hypothesis ... but anything to help out
the poor hard-left loonies:

since most of the mass of planet Earth is molten,
the “missing heat” is hiding there!

Great point. When it comes to sunspots, this solar cycle is one of the deadest we have seen in a long time. How long? I do not know. But I have read of some scientists who are concerned that this could reach the levels of inactivity last seen during the Dalton minimum (the early 1800s). I hope to hell this is not true as a dramatic cool down would be much worse for us in the midwest. A little warm up would actually be damn nice for us in Cold and Gloomy Ohio.

“Kevin Trenberth at the National Center for Atmospheric Research says it's probably going back out into space. The Earth has a number of natural thermostats, including clouds, which can either trap heat and turn up the temperature, or reflect sunlight and help cool the planet.”

It's mind boggling to think of the thousands of characteristics of our planet that must be just right, independently and relatively, to sustain complex life.

No, no, no, you see it can't be the sun. It's the oceans; an extended and colder global El Nina; a cyclical, terrestrial event aka Global Climate Change^TM. Yeah, that's it. Not a decrease in solar magnetism, not an increase galactic rays and cloud cover, Global Climate Change^TM foist upon us by the evil (Western) capitalists and their petroleum-based energy sources.

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