Global ocean temperatures "plunge"

from data gathered by the National Climatic Data Center ^ | 12/17/07 | Dangus

[Eternal_Bear]

This is actually proof that the ice caps are melting. Lot of very cold water off Greenland now which is affecting the Gulf stream. If the Gulf Stream is slowed or stopped all together, expect a mini Ice Age in Europe.

[SAJ]

And get very short the Euro!

[ICE-FLYER]

Dang that Bush and Cheney...They’re doing this just to get Big Oil back on top again!!!

[Bon mots]

Oh No!
It's GLOBAL WARMING!
It's GLOBAL COOLING!
It's Global Warming...
It's Global Cooling!!

[brownsfan]

“This is actually proof that the ice caps are melting. Lot of very cold water off Greenland now which is affecting the Gulf stream. If the Gulf Stream is slowed or stopped all together, expect a mini Ice Age in Europe.”

Good point. The bottom line is this, we are insignificant and can’t change what the earth is doing, learn from the dinosaurs, adapt or die.

[edcoil]

In 1996 Nature Magazine showed how a new ice age was forming and that it would be far more destructive then warming. If you get carbon credits for heating, what will Al Gore sell for cooling? Ice cubes?

[pabianice]

[Brad from Tennessee]

Climate Metric Reality Check #2 Long Term Sea Surface Temperature Trend Anomalies and Ocean Heat Content Trends - Evidence For No Recent Global Warming By Roger Pielke Sr.

http://climatesci.colorado.edu/2007/12/17/reality-check-2-long-term-sea-surface-temperature-trend-anomalies-and-ocean-heat-content-trends/

[Jemian]

Fear-mongers have been using the power of exponential growth curves to scare the masses for centuries.

Centuries? Exponential? I'm not sure I agree with the adjectives and nouns in the sentence, but the idea is correct.

[dblshot]

“Algore will be deeply saddened, of course.”

No problem, he’ll just switch to selling carbon debits.

[VirginiaConstitutionalist]

Funny thing is there’s a thread on DU right now claiming the oceans are heating up and causing walrus stampedes.

Even funnier is one DUmmie’s theory that it’s cruise ship engines that are heating up the oceans.

[TexGuy]

Global Ocean Temperatures "plunge"

Oh Great, Now we're not going to die! ... Man, what a bummer. ... We're gonna have to keep fightin' these stupid libs here on earth.

[KarlInOhio]

You're not going to get 40 tons of CO₂ out of 1200 pounds of jet fuel. You would probably get a little under 2 tons.

[wolfcreek]

They should have realized how good we had it with GW and left it alone.

Who among us would rather fry than freeze?

[colorado tanker]

In 1996 Nature Magazine showed how a new ice age was forming and that it would be far more destructive then warming.

It's a little hard to see how the present civilization will survive with major financial centers like London and New York under or very near the edge of the ice. A lot of farmland would be useless too.

The alarmists claim elevated CO2 levels will turn off whatever causes the glacial cycles. If true, that would be great news for mankind, but I'd bet a Ruth's Chris dinner it's not.

[PapaBear3625]

Notice how they’ve stopped using the phrase “global warming”, and the new phrase is “climate change”? They’re now covered whichever way the data goes

[Tzimisce]

Question: Am I supposed to be happy or angry or concerned or what?

The global warming nutz have me so confused anymore. :(

[NeoCaveman]

Notice how they’ve stopped using the phrase “global warming”, and the new phrase is “climate change”? They’re now covered whichever way the data goes

I did notice that but I wonder how they are going to demonize CO2, the stuff I exhale, for making us all freeze.....

[coloradan]

You may be right, but you'd also get trillions of tons of air with an extremely slightly elevated carbon dioxide concentration.

[AndyTheBear]

It appears to me that such a minor change might be well within the normal measuring error.

Perhaps. I'm not sure how they measured this but I suspect methods superior to those in the earlier 20th century. Thus if we can't trust these new methods for a .25 degree change, we probably can't trust older methods calibrated against newer ones with a .5 degree change. This would leave us uncertain if the planet has warmed this century at all.