The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat

NPR ^ | 3/19/08 | Richard Harris

[Dawnsblood]

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.

This is puzzling in part because here on the surface of the Earth, the years since 2003 have been some of the hottest on record. But Josh Willis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the oceans are what really matter when it comes to global warming.

In fact, 80 percent to 90 percent of global warming involves heating up ocean waters. They hold much more heat than the atmosphere can. So Willis has been studying the ocean with a fleet of robotic instruments called the Argo system. The buoys can dive 3,000 feet down and measure ocean temperature. Since the system was fully deployed in 2003, it has recorded no warming of the global oceans.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

I recently read a research report that pointed out that Scientists are becoming very concerned with the recent inactivity of Solar output.

The last 10 years, the Sun was ejecting mass quantities of radiation due to hyperactive Sun Spot activity. But recently, beginning last fall, the Sun has suddenly fall into almost no such activity.

This may not be just a temporary trend. Some Scientists believe that this may be similar or perhaps even more exaggerated than the phenomenon that caused the “Little Ice Age”. All the indications are very similar to the comparison of Sun Spot activity that occurred during that period.

All of legitimate science eyes are on this phenomenon and are watching closely. Time will tell, but so far, it does not look good. In the mean time, buy warmer clothing, tighten up your doors and window, and prepare for some short wet Summers and cold hard Winters. It may happen sooner than later.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Maybe the data are telling the scientists that their current atmospheric “models” are wrong? Nah, that wouldn’t be it. Their models are infallible.

[Allegra]

It's April 26th 2008. It is snowing right now in Minneapolis Minnesota.

Day-um! Protracted winter?

[RightWhale]

An inch of fresh snow this morning, which is nothing compared to some other regions in N America, but it sure seems like another winter has begun and we were only four days out of the previous winter. Short summer.

[mjp]

For 500 years global temps have followed a regular pattern: thirty years of warming, then thirty of cooling. We're now ten years into a new cooling spell...

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Don’t you know? It’s all because of Global Warming. (Some even are now trying to claim that Global warming is stressing the Earth’s crust, causing unusual Earthquake activity. (Midwest)

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Prior to the Little Ice Age, there was a prolonged warming period. (3 degree average, warmer than this recent one) The recent hyper Sun Spot activity over the last 10 years will be offset by the opposite. At least that is the way it is starting to look.

[GOPJ]

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.

Or it could be that global warming is a bogus drama queen antic of liberals...

[MNJohnnie]

Protracted winter?

That a nice way of saying it....protracted! We had our 1st 70+ day last week NOW it is snowing again! I only got to ride my bike 4 times so far this year and have yet to be on my roller blades! It probably a good thing the house market sucks or the whole state would probably be depopulated because everyone is ready to move SOUTH after this winter!

[Flpoop]

“Since the system was fully deployed in 2003, it has recorded no warming of the global oceans.”
LOL...are there non-global oceans we have to worry about also?

[chardonnay]

why ya’all wanna be such haters?

(leftist response to your comments)

[Yardstick]

Yeah, isn’t funny how how he just kind of glides by the rather obvious third possibility? In true leftist fashion, he has “unpersoned” the idea that global warming might not be real.

[elpadre]

mankind has been trying to understand and control weather for thousands of years and have consistently failed. The world has a controller - and it ain’t us!!!

[Publius6961]

The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat

Why are we beating this dead horse? The issue is settled.

The scam has been exposed.

On to better and proven energy sources.

[Political Junkie Too]

That could mean global warming has taken a breather.

In other words, the climate is cyclical between warming (bad) and cooling (taking a breather from being bad)?

We used to just call this the weather.

-PJ

[Publius6961]

Maybe the data are telling the scientists that their current atmospheric “models” are wrong? Nah, that wouldn’t be it. Their models are infallible.

G.I.G.O.

[Grizzled Bear]

This is puzzling in part because here on the surface of the Earth, the years since 2003 have been some of the hottest on record.

Do they mean besides 1934?

[Bommer]

or maybe scientists are too damn lazy to do any research for themselved. They look at one paper, say "Hey that makes sense" and because they have a doctorate, rubber stamped it as offical gospel!

I guess they never got over being proven wrong when they all signed onto the whole "World is Flat" theory!

[Carl from Marietta]

The really great news here is that NPR has done a story that reflects negatively on the disciples of the Church of Global Warming.

When they start eating their own, Mr. Gore can put a bullet in his head. Call me, I'll tell ya when Al.