SubscribeNPR Shocker: Global Warming’s Missing Heat
From the global warming cultists at taxpayer funded National Public Radio:
The Mystery of Global Warming’s Missing Heat
by Richard Harris
Morning Edition, March 19, 2008 · 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.
“There has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant,” Willis says. So the buildup of heat on Earth may be on a brief hiatus. “Global warming doesn’t mean every year will be warmer than the last. And it may be that we are in a period of less rapid warming.”
In recent years, heat has actually been flowing out of the ocean and into the air. This is a feature of the weather phenomenon known as El Nino. So it is indeed possible the air has warmed but the ocean has not. But it’s also possible that something more mysterious is going on.
That becomes clear when you consider what’s happening to global sea level. Sea level rises when the oceans get warm because warmer water expands. This accounts for about half of global sea level rise. So with the oceans not warming, you would expect to see less sea level rise. Instead, sea level has risen about half an inch in the past four years. That’s a lot.
Willis says some of this water is apparently coming from a recent increase in the melting rate of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica.
“But in fact there’s a little bit of a mystery. We can’t account for all of the sea level increase we’ve seen over the last three or four years,” he says.
One possibility is that the sea has, in fact, warmed and expanded — and scientists are somehow misinterpreting the data from the diving buoys.
But if the aquatic robots are actually telling the right story, that raises a new question: Where is the extra heat all going?
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.
That can’t be directly measured at the moment, however.
“Unfortunately, we don’t have adequate tracking of clouds to determine exactly what role they’ve been playing during this period,” Trenberth says.
It’s also possible that some of the heat has gone even deeper into the ocean, he says. Or it’s possible that scientists need to correct for some other feature of the planet they don’t know about. It’s an exciting time, though, with all this new data about global sea temperature, sea level and other features of climate.
“I suspect that we’ll able to put this together with a little bit more perspective and further analysis,” Trenberth says. “But what this does is highlight some of the issues and send people back to the drawing board.”
Trenberth and Willis agree that a few mild years have no effect on the long-term trend of global warming. But they say there are still things to learn about how our planet copes with the heat.
Oh, my sides.
That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren’t quite understanding what their robots are telling them.
Note that no other option even crosses the author’s mind.
Similarly:
So with the oceans not warming, you would expect to see less sea level rise. Instead, sea level has risen about half an inch in the past four years. That’s a lot.
It never occurs to the writer that maybe the sea level hasn’t risen after all. That those numbers have been fueled by expectations, grant money and general hysteria.
But this is your tax dollar at work, folks. Your hard earned money is being used illegally by NPR to propagandize you.
And, yes it is illegal for the federal government to propagandize in the domestic US. (The US Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, also known as the Smith-Mundt Act.)
Someone should bring a lawsuit. Maybe the ACLU.
(I kid of course.)
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18 Responses to “NPR Shocker: Global Warming’s Missing Heat”
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March 19th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
The so-called scientists really can’t admit the truth: that their theories and models are all screwed up and therefore they really have no idea what they’re talking about. Sad that politicians want to use their picked-out-of-the-air scare numbers to jack up our electric bills.
March 19th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
“So it is indeed possible the air has warmed but the ocean has not. But it’s also possible that something more mysterious is going on.”
Yes i think it is possible that something more mysterious is going on here, hopefully they haven’t ruled out the possibility of la chupacabra being behind all of this.
March 19th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
This is hilarious…Not because the oceans are not warming, but for the obvious contortions in trying to fit this square peg into the round “global warming” hole. It’s funny that they doubt the temperature readings of the oceans, but suspect air temperature readings that fit the “consensus” are gospel…
March 19th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
You’re right SG, this is a laffer!
Well “duuhhh”!! What a flippin’ maroon.
I wonder where this “rocket scientist” is getting his data? According to the NOAA, that amount of rise, on average, has been happening for the last 100+ years.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.g.....lrmap.html
Read the notations below the graph and take a few minutes and browse the site, interesting stuff there.
March 19th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
My take is here
March 19th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
TheChicagoWay
“It’s funny that they doubt the temperature readings of the oceans, but suspect air temperature readings that fit the “consensus” are gospel…”
You’re exactly right. Any scientist knows that water is a poor heat conductor. It takes a long time to heat up and is equally slow to cool down. It therefore makes for more stable temperature readings. I don’t trust NASA (especially James Hansen) for honest science anymore. Remember the $720,000 funding Soros paid for the “politicization of science” at NASA?
http://www.soros.org/resources.....mplete.pdf
[note: The Strategic Opportunities Fund includes grants related to Hurricane Katrina ($1,652,841); media policy ($1,060,000);
and politicization of science ($720,000)]
pg. 123 and 143
March 19th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
The Earths orbit and distance from the sun varies slightly due to gravitational tugs from other planets.
Its axis tilt wobbles slightly like a slow spinning top, the moon keeps the wobble to a minimum, But the axis still changes enough to cause polar ice to recede or enlarge.
Solar output changes in cycles that at best are unpredictable.
Do greenhouse gasses change the environment, Yes of course.
All of these things and more effect the climate, But only one can be used to scam a profit.
March 19th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Speaking of “missing”……..where IS Algore these days? (Maybe he’s with Pastor Wright.) And what exactly is the carbon credit tax suppose to pay for? (What a rip off for those of us out there working with alternative energy, etc.)
GuppyNblue….I wonder how much Soros has spent so far to spread his Socialistic propaganda to achieve his agenda. SG, did you have a article about that once?
March 19th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
” Speaking of “missing”……..where IS Algore these days?”
Not sure, When I get done reading War and Peace, Wax the car, build a few new cannals for Panama and design and pilot the next generation space shuttle, I will try and look for him…. Maybe. ;-)
March 19th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
” Speaking of “missing”……..where IS Algore these days?”
From Computer World:
And now you know.
Personally I would have loved for the answer to “Where is Al Gore these days?” to be the polar bear at the top of this thread, suddenly burp and smile.
March 19th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
DW; That’d make a great lead-in for an Alka-Seltzer commercial. ;-}
March 19th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
And the caption:
…”and then he screams -’but I’m a vegetarian!’..like we care…ha ha ha…”
March 19th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I think the Nobel Peace Prize has lost its luster. Yasser Arafat got one. Jimma Carter got one. Al Gore got one. If they try to give one to me I’m gonna refuse it. I mean, you’re known by the company you keep.
I think I need a shower! (hiccup)
March 20th, 2008 at 1:00 am
“It’s also possible that some of the heat has gone even deeper into the ocean, he says.”
Yes of course, it is also possible that “sea heat” is afraid of heat detecting diving robots and hides whenever it sees one. How ludicrous does this BS have to get before people wake up and tell these eco-mental defectives to just STFU?
March 20th, 2008 at 3:38 am
This entire farse of a story can be summed up in just a few words.
Marxist scientists asks…”Why isn’t the Earth cooperating with our scam?”
March 20th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
“And, yes it is illegal for the federal government to propagandize in the domestic US.”
Good, I expect the subpoenas will be delivered to Bush and his merry band of criminals any day now.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Ah jeez, here we go again, sigh…….
OK, I’ll bite. Go ahead RAP, enlighten us please, as to the “crimes” for which Bush & Co. should be subpoenaed for. One condition though, they must be actual prosecutable crimes, not some crappola tossed forth by wearers of Alcoa fedoras.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
“Alcoa fedoras” he he he….roflmao!!