Thanks smokingfrog.
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Posted on 04/01/2012 9:40:29 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Her Majesty's Ship Challenger set sail in 1872. Stripped of her guns and outfitted for science, her mission was to sail around the globe sampling as she went.
Among other scientific triumphs, the Challenger gathered the first global set of ocean temperature readings, more than 260 in all. The British expedition measured from the surface to a depth beyond 900 meters.
In 2004, a set of drifting buoys began to make similar measurements. There are now more than 3000 of these floats bobbing in the world's seas, collecting oceanographic information.
Comparing the data sets, separated by more than a century in time, reveals that, yes, the ocean is warming. On average, the global ocean is warmer by roughly 0.6 degrees Celsius at the surface and 0.1 degrees at depth. The analysis appears in the journal Nature Climate Change.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
Four months ago I read a report that deep ocean warming hadn’t altered much.
Scientific American has become politicized, so I no longer credit them with veracity.
Ping.
APRIL FOOL'S!!!
.1 degrees change from readings taken 130 years ago. That has to be much less than the margin of error.
If any of you have a 135 year-old diesel engine, I’ll buy it if it still runs.
it could very well be true. but, that it is because I drive a Tundra, not so much. projecting the cause onto ourselves
is self worship of a high order.
I don’t skin dive much below 900 meters anyway, it gets a bit tough to see anything down there;)
No, it doesn’t. Fail! But thanks for playing. :’)
Thanks smokingfrog.
.6C....that’s it. Over 135 years. Hell that’s meaningless.
It’s within the margin of error for analog measuring equipment.
National Geographic also.
so what?
.6 Degrees by what margin of error over 135 years?
Good grief.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/22/the-metrology-of-thermometers/
It was very serious when humanists moved into business and science departments of University and culturally cleansed western ethics. Now it is realitivity and scientific process means nil. They always controled the soft sciences and they made no sense but everyone knew they were socialist political activists. Now they own hard science and so the West’s progress will decline accordingly.
That depends on your definition of humor. The joke that keeps giving is government sponsored propaganda, how ever it is sad, because of all the people that are trained to follow blindly.
Do you prefer a blue or a red pill?
” - - - On average, the global ocean is warmer by roughly 0.6 degrees Celsius at the surface and 0.1 degrees at depth.”
What is the margin or error?
What is the control for error between the various manufacturers for the last 135 years?
BTW, Opinion Polls have margins of error, thermometers have tolerance ranges, so why not margins of error for historical Scientific observations, by humans?
"0.1 degrees at depth" = Meaningless taking accuracy of instrumentation into account.
"global ocean is warmer by roughly 0.6 degrees Celsius at the surface" = What was that nasty old sun doing during that time period?
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