The 'Mystery' of Global Warming's Missing Heat
Fascinating piece on NPR — which, if I understand correctly, is a taxpayer funded organ of the American Left.
Nothing like a little confirmation bias.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.
Let me tell you what else it might just mean - it could mean ostensible ‘scientists’ may have to re-evaluate the validity and robustness of AGW theory.
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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.
An admission of uncertainty? A bit of scientific humility? Unbelievable. However, I am sure the Goracle would not approve.
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 love that sentence: Or it’s possible that scientists need to correct for some other feature of the planet they don’t know about.
But ‘science’ knows all!
“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.”
I suspect those ‘scientists’ scurrying back to their drawing boards will be doing their damndest to make the facts fit the AGW story.
