Oceans are cooling according to NASA

examiner.com ^ | January 21, 2009 | Justin Berk

[Free ThinkerNY]

Two separate studies through NASA confirm that since 2003, the world's oceans have been losing heat. In the peak of the recent warming trend, 1998 actually ranked 2nd to 1934 as the warmest year on record.

John Willis, an oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, published his first report about the warming oceans. He used data from1993-2003 that showed the warm-up and followed the Global Warming Theory. In 2006, he co-piloted a follow-up study led by John Lyman at Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle that updated the time series for 2003-2005. Surprisingly, the ocean seemed to have cooled. He was surprised, and called it a 'speed bump' on the way to global warming.

A second, independent study was conducted. Takmeng Wong and his colleagues at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia came up with the same results. Wong studies net flux of solar energy at the top of our atmosphere. From the 1980s to 1990s his team noticed increased amounts net energy when comparing incoming solar energy to what Earth radiates and reflects. Since then, the solar flux has remained the same. Other studies have suggested that the sun's output has decreased in the past few years.

[mkmensinger]

I’m sure Hansen will say that this cooling is just further proof of warming.

[marron]

Obviously we’ll need to adjust our theories, but that shouldn’t stop us from panicking and electing socialists.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[rickmichaels]

He was surprised, and called it a 'speed bump' on the way to global warming.

That's one ice-covered, Mt. Everest-sized speed bump.

[muawiyah]

If we get so much as an inch of ice buildup on Baffin Island it's time for the peasants with their pitchforks to descend on Hansen and his running dog lackeys and drag them from their hidey holes and treat them to tar and feathers.

Just keep your eye on Baffin Island ~ that's where the big ice lobes come from that carve out the Great Lakes basins (deeper every time) and destroy everything in the Midwest.)

[xcamel]

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[LiberConservative]

He was surprised, and called it a 'speed bump' on the way to global warming.

"Global Warming" is a religion.

[Logical me]

Global Warming" is a religion.

With millions of simple minded cult followers.

[Sacajaweau]

I’m gonna make a stab at it: The massive Tsunami a couple of years back spewed a lot of heat and methane OUT of the ocean and dissipated...lending a temporary bump to global warming.

[dfwgator]

The oceans are getting cooler....

"...and Leon's getting LAAAAARGER!"

[RC one]

Melting glaciers could, possibly, release vast quantities of cold water into the ocean thereby decreasing the ocean's temperature and possibly disrupting ‘ocean currents and thermohaline circulation.

[dfwgator]

The planet has been in flux since the beginning. We’ll adapt. Not a damn thing we can do about it.

[gridlock]

He was surprised, and called it a 'speed bump' on the way to global warming.

Data that does not agree must be ignored. NASA and the rest of the academic establishment have too much invested in Global Warming to turn back now.

[autumnraine]

And this as my daughter comes home from 2nd grade today and says we need to stop driving our car so the polar bears don’t die. That’s ‘what my teacher said’.

I’m forwarding this to her teacher’s email.

[gridlock]

The planet has been in flux since the beginning. We’ll adapt. Not a damn thing we can do about it.

Nothing? I think not!!!

We just need to build an enormous Flux Capacitor, 200 miles across... I'm talking about Jillions of Giga Watts!!!

[MarineBrat]

And this as my daughter comes home from 2nd grade today and says we need to stop driving our car so the polar bears don’t die. That’s ‘what my teacher said’.

I think you should have your daughter ask her teacher if they can do a class project to see how many polar bears are alive today compared to 10 years ago, 25 years ago, 50, 100.

[QenBirQeni]

First, I would like to say that although I am skeptical of the Global Warming hysteria (um Al Gore anyone?!), I do believe that we are heading towards a climate change event. Specifically, according to Dr. Scotese we are on the up-swing towards global warming which will lead to global cooling. Thing is, his chart has it occurring for the next 10,000 years before we peak. Yes, global warming may cause an ice age. And if the oceans are indeed cooling, due to perhaps melting ice caps, it is possible to trigger an ice house effect. I do believe that climate change is possible within our life time. The cooling oceans could slow down and eventually stop the Gulf Stream, the conveyor belt which regulates global temperature. See here. Without going into technical details, the gulf stream carries heat (in water) from the equator and moves it towards the north pole. To give you an idea of how think of where hurricanes originate - from the equatorial latitudes and move northwards towards North America. Given global warming, an introduction of cold water from the melting polar ice caps will slow down the gulf stream conveyor because there is less warm water to move (cold water sinks so it doesn't flow) and eventually the conveyor runs out of energy. Global cooling gets complicated but this conveyor stream also causes warm air to move northwards as well. Stopping this conveyor system means there is no way to move warm air northwards and the temperatures drop, the ice sheets thicken and eventually advance. New York eventually rests under 600 feet of glacier ice. Thus begins the ice age because of global warming. This whole alarmist bs about human caused global warming may very well be a crock. Fortunately for us, the global warming crowd bears the burden of proof, but given the unique event of their claims (human accelerated global warming) it will be very difficult for them to prove that we are the culprits for global warming. If you took a look at the map at Dr. Scotese's website you will notice we already are on the upswing of warming global temperatures. One can also refer to the Little Ice Age which occurred during the Middle Ages. Why isn't the global warming crowd blaming this event on humanity? After all, weren't Medieval societies agrarian raising large numbers of domestic animals which could theoretically induce global warming from their "methane emissions?" I swear, every time someone talks about how we are causing global warming I just want to fart and say "Ooops, I just melted 1 cubic yard of polar ice!"

[Irish Eyes]

And this as my daughter comes home from 2nd grade today and says we need to stop driving our car so the polar bears don’t die. That’s ‘what my teacher said’.

Bless your daughter's heart. I am hearing some of the same things from my granddaughter. I sincerely hope that her teacher is better with math, history and geography than she is with science.

[Free ThinkerNY]

LOL!