[Amendment10]

Climate scientist Noel Keenlyside, leading a team from Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Science and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, for the first time entered verifiable data on ocean circulation cycles into one of the U. N.'s climate supercomputers, and the machine spit out a projection that there will be no more warming for the foreseeable future.

It's good to see that the supercomputers are FINALLY being fed some actual data as opposed to merely verifying the garbage-in, garbage-out law.

More specifically, given that the oceans cover 66-70% of the earth's surface, it's no surprise that ocean temperatures are regarded as a major indicator of global warming activity. So the slight decrease in ocean temperatures indicated by the Argo System oceanic temperature probes over the last several years reflects on the politically correct foundation of AGW alarmism, in my opinion.

Argo System ocean temperature probes
Argo System web site

Of course, Mr. Keenlyside-- long a defender of the man-made global warming theory -- was quick to add that after 2015 (or perhaps 2020), warming would resume with a vengeance.

Hopefully scientists will have more of the bugs ironed out of their global climate software by that time. ;^)

[DBrow]

“verifying the garbage-in, garbage-out law”

Computer output is frequently regarded as being true, just because it's a computer. I heard “computer designed” as a marketing slogan many times.

When you couple this with politicians or high-level management (with business degrees, not science) you get this:

Garbage In, Gospel Out

Especially if the result fits the current program. NASA's 100,000 error-free shuttle launch calculation is an example.