Posted by
Catmman on Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:59:37 AM
These highly technological scientific devices are not immune to the effects of climate change denial it seems.
This has been reported on in many places already, but I offer up some differing details. These buoys have been on the job since 2003, five years now. Data collection (to you alarmists out there, DATA is real scientific fact. Actual information collected through scientific means. DATA is not a Goracle slide show - author) shows that for five years, um, I don't quite know how to say this; for five years, there has been ZERO warming of these oceans. NO WARMING. In fact, a slight cooling, but everything within the scientifically identified natural deviation or "normal" temps.
OH, and NASA weather satellites (apparently also in geo-denial-synch orbit) have detected NO GLOBULL WARMING OUTSIDE OF NORMAL TEMPERATURE DEVIATION. For the past 30 YEARS.
Huh.
The new buoys, known as Argos, drift along the oceans at a depth of about 6,000 feet constantly monitoring the temperature, salinity and speed of ocean currents. Every 10 days or so a bladder inflates, bringing to the surface readings taken at various depths. Once on the surface, they transmit their readings to satellites that retransmit them to land-based computers.
The Argos buoys have disappointed the global warm-mongers in that they have failed to detect any signs of imminent climate change. As Dr. Josh Willis, who works for NASA in its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, noted in an interview with National Public Radio, "there has been a very slight cooling" over the buoys' five years of observation, but that drop was "not anything really significant." Certainly not enough to shut down the Gulf Stream.
Climate-change promoters also are perplexed by the observations of NASA's eight weather satellites. In contrast to some 7,000 land-based stations, they take more than 300,000 temperature readings daily over the surface of the Earth. In 30 years of operation, the satellites have recorded a warming trend of just 0.14C — well within the range of normal variations.
If the Argos buoys and satellites had confirmed the greenie computer models and Gore hype instead of natural temperature variations, it would have been big news. The silence speaks volumes.