Understanding climate change -- The Argos program

Argos ^ | 2008 | Argos

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thousands of buoys and floats worldwide are equipped with Argos transmitters, sending regular information via the Argos system to help scientists understand and predict climate change. Nearly 6,000 drifting buoys, deep floats, moored buoys and fixed stations fitted with Argos transmitters measure ocean currents and send millions of measurements including atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, sea temperature and more to follow climate evolution. These Argos transmitters are important components of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) programs, through TOGA, WOCE and now GOOS/GCOS, CLIVAR and GODAE programs and experiments.

[avacado]

Al Gore FEARS the Argo Network. Probably will never hear him say the word “argo.”

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From Investors Business Daily an Editorial:

Testing The Waters

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Testing The Waters

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Posted 5/5/2008

Climate Change: Proving the advantage of actual observations, German researchers say Earth will stop warming for at least a decade. It seems ocean currents, not SUVs, help determine the temperature of Earth.

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When the United Nations World Meteorological Organization recently reported that global temperatures had not risen since 1998, the explanation given by WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud was that the cool spell was the effect of the Pacific Ocean's La Nina current, "part of what we call 'variability.' "

Well, oops, the Earth will do it again. According to a report by German researchers published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, shifting Atlantic ocean currents will cool parts of North America and Europe over the next decade as well.

Noel Keenlyside of the Leibnitz Institute of Marine Science at Germany's Kiel University says "in the short term, you can see changes in the global mean temperature that you might not expect given the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

The key to the Kiel team's prediction is the natural cycle of ocean currents called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or AMO for those who aren't oceanographers or don't play Scrabble. The AMO is closely related to the warm currents that bring heat from the tropics to the coasts of Europe and North America. The cycle is not well understood, but is believed to repeat every 60 to 70 years.

According to the greenies, the Earth is supposed to warm continuously and disastrously without taking any rest breaks. Yet after taking actual data from the Labrador Sea where the Gulf Stream gives up its warmth before sinking and returning southward and projecting forward, the Kiel team says the Atlantic currents will keep rising temperatures in check around the world, much as the warming and cooling associated with El Nino and La Nina in the Pacific affect global temperatures.

Howard Hayden, physics professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, has described the machinery of the computer models used by the IPCC and others to predict imminent and cataclysmic climate change as ones that take "garbage in" and spit "gospel out."

[CajunConservative]

It sounds like things are working as they are supposed to.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Where i started this morning.....From the Flopping Aces Blog:

Disappointed Environuts

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osted by: Curt @ 8:00 am in EnvironmentVisited 125 times, 125 so far today

Sucks to be disappointed aye?

Understanding the ocean’s effect on climate took a quantum leap forward in 2003 when the first of 3,000 new automated ocean buoys were deployed, a significant improvement over earlier buoys that took their measurements mostly at the ocean’s surface.

The new buoys, known as Argos, drift along the world’s oceans at a depth of about 6,000 feet constantly monitoring the temperature, salinity, and speed of ocean currents. Every 10 days or so a bladder inflates, bringing them to the surface as they take their readings at various depths.

Once on the surface, they transmit their readings to satellites that retransmit them to land-based computers.

The Argos buoys have disappointed global warming alarmists in that they have failed to detect any signs of imminent climate change. As Dr. Josh Willis noted in an interview with National Public Radio, “there has been a very slight cooling” over the buoy’s five years of observation.

Actual observations trump computer models and as we learn more about the Earth we start to realize how puny and irrelevant man’s contribution to climate change really is.

While irresponsible environmentalists panic over warming, the Earth cools and goes with the ocean flow.

Tack this onto the recent news from a German study that claimed while the globe is “definitely warming” it will actually cool down for a few years. No need to worry tho. We’re all still doomed.

Why was this study done tho? I’ll tell ya why. Because the environuts were so shaken by the contradictions between their computer forecasts and the actual data collected they had to explain it all away somehow.

How supposedly intelligent reasonable people fall for this crap is beyond me.

[EyeGuy]

Understanding “climate change?”

Climate has been and always will be about change. If meteorologists want to try to better understand “climate”, then fine.

The whole concept of some new type of human-driven “climate-change” is socialist mythology.

[Dixie Yooper]

Oh! ARGOS, I thought they were talking about Archos...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

An earlier editorial from IBD:

The Environmentalists' Real Agenda

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y INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Ideologies: Once in a while the truth accidentally tumbles out on global warming activists' real agenda. That's exactly what happened at the U.N., when Bolivia's leader called for ending capitalism to save the planet.

Delivering the keynote address at the United Nations forum on Indigenous People on Monday, Bolivia's President Evo Morales told the adoring crowd that "if we want to save our planet earth, to save life, to save mankind, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system."

Morales elaborated on that by calling for an end to "unbridled industrial development, extraction of natural resources, excessive consumption of goods and accumulation of waste."

More conveniently, he also demanded that trillions of dollars from the West be diverted to places like Bolivia, "to repair the earth."

Seldom has the environmentalist agenda to end the capitalist system been laid out so plainly.

But in reality, it's capitalism — combined with the framework that enables it to flourish, like rule of law and property rights — that has lifted billions of people out of poverty and improved the environment. Contrary to Morales' assertions, the most capitalist countries are also the cleanest.

According to a 2006 study by the Heartland Institute, free enterprise does more to protect the environment than state intervention.

"The nations that have the best track records on environmental protection and improvement are those with the highest amount of free-market capitalism," wrote Samuel Aldrich and Jay Lehr, in "Free Enterprise Protects the Environment."

Morales is a Marxist, so the environmental records of the communist and socialist systems he touts to save the earth are instructive.

After communism fell in Eastern Europe, some of the biggest revelations were about how vast the pollution was in countries where no one was permitted to own or care for land.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See post #8.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

let’s get some accurate Data....ping....

[EyeGuy]

“But in reality, it’s capitalism — combined with the framework that enables it to flourish, like rule of law and property rights — that has lifted billions of people out of poverty....”

Along the magnificence-that-is-capitalism lines, evil, nasty McDonald’s has made millionaires out of more regular Americans then any other single entity.........even such luminaries as the faculty at Harvard, or the staff of the New York Times.

Oh and these aren’t just white Christian country club members, many of them are black and Hispanic.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Very nice summation of the Global Hoax machine.

[Marine_Uncle]

The powers that be should arrange to stuff al gore into a spacecraft and shoot him off to Mars so that he can personally look into what is making Mar’s ice caps melt at a rapid rate.

[TBP]

Climate is changing constantly. It always has and always will, regardl;ess of anything we do or don’;t do.

End of discussion.

[LiteKeeper]

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[steelyourfaith]

 

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[SunkenCiv]

Heh... of course, each time the data collection methods change, the old figures would ordinarily be seen as quaint antiques. Thanks E.