Posted on 09/19/2011 10:09:30 PM PDT by americanophile
The warming oceans could then be a major contributor of carbon dioxide inasmuch that oceans are major absorbers of carbon dioxide but warmer oceans would expel carbon dioxide to the atmosphere - think about heating a soft drink or a can of beer.
So the fancy climate models failed to take into account that the Earth is 3/4th covered in oceans... but we can trust the conclusions derived from the model about global warming. Of course we can. We don’t want to be labeled a climate denier. We believe! We believe!
10 years ago they predicted where the heat went. So they had a few studies in 2004-2007 (on lasted 3 years I think) to find the heat stored in the ocean.
They didn’t find the heat. So, being good scientists, they said
Either
1) heat is not stored in the ocean as current global warming theory requires
or
2) it’s not stored where we predicted.
Just kidding. They jumped straight to option 2. Didn’t even consider that the theory may be wrong when yet another prediction failed. The quotes from “scientists” are pretty amazing. Such as “we KNOW the heat is down there. we just need to find it”.
From today’s Boulder Daily Camera
“But Trenberth and his colleagues — including lead author Gerald Meehl — were able to show, using NCAR’s Community Climate System Model, that the excess heat is likely buried deeper than 1,000 feet in the ocean, where researchers now have few reliable temperature gauges. “
Wow, just as anthropogenic global warming (uh, I mean climate change) was becoming totally discredited by REAL science like CERN’s CLOUD experiment that shows solar cosmic ray fluctuation is the principal driver of cloud formation and therefore the principal driver of climate temperature change, the supposedly “missing” heat gets miraculously discovered! Well, at least sort of discovered, since it is only “likely” that it has been found, oh, and conveniently found where no measurements have been taken yet and where it is very unlikely any measurements will be made due to extreme expense. How convenient.
Even more convenient, the CCSM model which has been around for decades without showing any deep ocean heat suddenly reveals the supposedly “hidden heat” after being tweaked a tad to show what they wanted it to show. Hmmm, yum, now that’s some gooooood Bass-O-Matic Bass, uh, I mean Science! Or maybe it’s just some really delicious fudge. A bit hard to tell, don’t you think?
Deep Ocean Water Temperature did not Rise in Past Decade, says NASA
In other words, the mystery of why the theory of human-caused carbon-release heat-buildup is an ABJECT FAILURE?
That mystery?
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