Will The Global Warming Nuts Please Just Go Away Now.
Robert108 has a post up about the scientific progress of measuring the temperatures of the oceans.
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...”
The global climate depends on the total amount of heat retained by the Earth and not radiated into space. The sun shines on Earth the Earth reflects that energy out into space to achieve somewhat of a balance.
Skeptics of man-caused global warming are aware that the Earth has been warming and cooling for it’s own reasons ever since the Earth was formed.
But what do global warming proponents believe? They believe that mankind is in effect wrapping the Earth in another layer of insulation. In order to shed this heat the Earth needs to warm up to achieve a new balance.
Global warming activists have been using local heat waves or even a hot day to advance their agenda. Of course that’s baloney. It can be warmer here in North Dakota in July and cooler in New England to balance out the total heat energy that is on Earth. If it totals more we have a warming trend or if the total is lower we have a cooling trend. To be honest we skeptics have been known to point out cold weather trends to poke fun of the other side. Mostly it’s fun to make fun of Al Gore showing up in a blizzard to hghlight the global warming problem.
Skeptics of man-caused global warming are aware that one warm year or one cold year doesn’t mean much. The Earth does that. In fact it sometimes warms for years and cools for years. We’re go pretty good data that the Earth has been warming up from the Little Ice Age for over 150 years in fact.
However remember global warming activists believe something a bit different. They believe they’ve got proof that man has wrapped the Earth in that layer of insulation. So where is the heat. It must be there. But we know it’s not over the water and now we know that it’s not under the water. If the heat’s not there that means their models are just plain wrong. Certainly their models didn’t come close to predicting what we are now experiencing.
It certainly seems that the subject deserves more study, and no longer should the grants go to those advancing only the theory that we’re doomed to wind up in a global sauna. One thing we definitely don’t want to do is destroy our economy (or the economies of developing nations) for a theory that’s full of holes.
It’s time for John McCain to realize he was sold a bill of goods on this issue and retract his plan to torpedo our children’s economy.
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