Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/01/2010 11:58:59 AM PDT by Signalman
Climate scientist Roger Pielke, Sr has noted that land surface temperature records (which comprise the vast majority of temperature records prior to the satellite era (1979-)) are unreliable due to land use changes and urban heat island effects, and that we should therefore look to ocean heat content changes as the most reliable metric for assessing global heating and cooling. The oceans cover 71% of the global surface area and hold at least 1000 times more heat than the atmosphere. Many have claimed that the 'missing heat' from 'anthropogenic global warming' has gone into the oceans, even though the heat seems to be 'missing' from the oceans as well. Recent data from the ARGO network of ~3200 floating robot sensors has shown that since full deployment of the system in ~2003, the ocean heat content has declined despite steadily rising 'greenhouse' CO2 levels:
How could this be? Here are the physical reasons why increasing concentrations of 'greenhouse gases' would not be expected to increase ocean heat content:
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First of all you have rain and precipitation from the Heavens which is certainly not hot.
Second, the oceans have been around for millions of years and have not appreciably heated over that period of time.
The oceans are normally cool and continue to be cool because that is how people stranded in them die of hypothermia, a loss of body heat from exposure to being in cool or cold water for any extended time usually at least thirty minutes.
The oceans are the heat sinks, not the atmosphere. They heat and cool the air, not the other way around.
Simple chemistry and physics.
Warming oceans? STOP WHALE FARTS NOW!
I can’t resist telling this story.
I am in the greenhouse biz. My family has been in this line of work continuously since 1933.
Now, you’d think libtards would like those of us who with God’s help, produce flowers and veggie plants, etc. But NO, there are eco-nuts who hate us too.
In the 1980’s I heard a story from a northern Illinois customer of ours.
He said some crazy lady came into his greenhouse one day, yelling at him about “Greenhouse gasses” and how HE was ruining the environment.
I kid you not. She chewed him out about the damage he was doing to the environment. He just let her say it, and didn’t bother to correct her since she was so unhinged from reality.
This was 30 years ago.
These eco-nuts have been getting all wee-wee’d up about this stuff for decades.
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