How will Warmists spin this? Head in the sand? Say it means nothing? Say the science is settled? Deflect to the military supposedly believing? Throw out a few slurs?
NASA Study Finds Earth’s Ocean Abyss Has Not Warmed
The cold waters of Earth’s deep ocean have not warmed measurably since 2005, according to a new NASA study, leaving unsolved the mystery of why global warming appears to have slowed in recent years.
So, in other words, the excuse of the oceans ate my warming was about as credible as “no, really, officer, I had no idea how fast I was going”.
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, analyzed satellite and direct ocean temperature data from 2005 to 2013 and found the ocean abyss below 1.24 miles (1,995 meters) has not warmed measurably. Study coauthor Josh Willis of JPL said these findings do not throw suspicion on climate change itself.
Well, of course not. Nothing can dissuade cultish zealots. You have a better chance of persuading Westboro Baptist Church members that gay marriage is OK, convincing Iran to support recognize the right of Israel to exist, to keep Obama from being an utterly partisan hack.
“The sea level is still rising,†Willis noted. “We’re just trying to understand the nitty-gritty details.â€
Well, yeah, that’s what happens during Holocene warm periods.
“The deep parts of the ocean are harder to measure,†said JPL’s William Llovel, lead author of the study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. “The combination of satellite and direct temperature data gives us a glimpse of how much sea level rise is due to deep warming. The answer is — not much.â€
To arrive at their conclusion, the JPL scientists did a straightforward subtraction calculation, using data for 2005-2013 from the Argo buoys, NASA’s Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites, and the agency’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. From the total amount of sea level rise, they subtracted the amount of rise from the expansion in the upper ocean, and the amount of rise that came from added meltwater. The remainder represented the amount of sea level rise caused by warming in the deep ocean.
The remainder was essentially zero. Deep ocean warming contributed virtually nothing to sea level rise during this period.
Whelp, there goes that prognostication right out the window. No that, again, anything will change the utterly closed and un-science interested minds of Warmists.
