Where is all of global warming’s missing heat?
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.”
It is an interesting question, where is the heat? But, I find it interesting that the slight cooling is not significant. Whenever there is a slight uptick in the temps, a storm, a hurricane, a drought, etc and so on, it means global warming, usually anthropogenic global warming, is coming, and we are all going to die! When there is a cooling trend, eh, no biggy.
Too be totally honest, Willis could be correct. Remember, during the American Revolution, which occured during the Little Ice Age, there was a massive heat wave during the summer of the Battle of Monmouth, and more men died from the heat then the battle.
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
Now, to me, that is a huge point, which shows that nature, not Man, has a huge impact on the current warming trend. BTW, y’all manmade global warming hysterics do understand that the Little Ice Age ended in the mid 1800’s, right?
Furthermore, the article explains that scientists really have no idea what the clouds have been doing, and, since they can increase or decrease the temps, they play a big part, too.
My point is that we have all these climahysterics running around DEMANDING action to stop global warming because Man is causing it, yet, as more and more evidence comes out, we see that it is primarily nature that causes the changes. I will not dismiss Man’s role entirely, though. He, or, to be non discriminatory, She, has some effect. And before any Climahysterics start demanding proof, perhaps they should tell us what they themselves are doing to stop global warming, other then killing trees with all their petitions and driving their SUVs to global warming rallies.
