It is now widely accepted that the warming of Earth's atmosphere has been on pause for the last 15 years. Global temperature averages of atmospheric readings are just about where they were a decade and a half ago. Even if one accounts for natural variations year after year, the atmospheric temperatures have now gotten to the point where they are falling outside the range predicted by the global warming models that underlie all the climate change/global warming hysteria of the last 20 years. In short, the actual air temperatures (rather than the predicted ones) say that Al Gore and his ilk are wrong. So much for the "consensus" among scientists that supported the global warming claims.
Rather than accepting that there must be something wrong with their theory, the global warming crowd has taken to arguing something new. According to this group, the heat generated by global warming is now warming up the deep oceans across Earth. Let's be clear here. These folks do not claim that the heat generated by the supposed global warming effect of carbon dioxide is warming the oceans near the surface. Oh no, that temperature could and is measured frequently. And guess what? The surface temperatures of the Earth's oceans are not showing any appreciable overall rise in temperature. So what does this crowd fixate upon? They decided that the heat must be going to the only place we cannot easily measure it, namely, the deep oceans. There are no networks of thermometers in the deep oceans. Indeed, just setting up such a network would be a difficult and expensive task. The global warming crowd, however, claims to know that this layer of the oceans is warming. It is complete nonsense.
Okay, maybe that is not fair. Maybe these folks are right and the heat being generated is skipping by the atmosphere where it is supposedly building up. Maybe the heat is also skipping by the surface of the oceans which actually abut the atmosphere where the heat is supposedly building up. Maybe there is a mechanism that allows the heat to skip to the oceans' depths without affecting the rest of the planet. I don't think so, but I am prepared to let the global warming crowd produce proof for their hypothesis. So far, even they only talk about "promising research". Of course, they do not bother to tell us what that research is promising; I think it is the need for more research money for the discredited group.
The key now, however, is that we still have politicians (like president Obama) who remain in the thrall of the global warming hysterics. These folks are taking steps that hurt the world economy every day in the name of stopping a phenomenon that seems not to exist. What's next to come? Will Obama recommend that American reduce their incomes still further so as to prevent an impending invasion from Mars? It would make just about as much sense as his global warming ideas.
Rather than accepting that there must be something wrong with their theory, the global warming crowd has taken to arguing something new. According to this group, the heat generated by global warming is now warming up the deep oceans across Earth. Let's be clear here. These folks do not claim that the heat generated by the supposed global warming effect of carbon dioxide is warming the oceans near the surface. Oh no, that temperature could and is measured frequently. And guess what? The surface temperatures of the Earth's oceans are not showing any appreciable overall rise in temperature. So what does this crowd fixate upon? They decided that the heat must be going to the only place we cannot easily measure it, namely, the deep oceans. There are no networks of thermometers in the deep oceans. Indeed, just setting up such a network would be a difficult and expensive task. The global warming crowd, however, claims to know that this layer of the oceans is warming. It is complete nonsense.
Okay, maybe that is not fair. Maybe these folks are right and the heat being generated is skipping by the atmosphere where it is supposedly building up. Maybe the heat is also skipping by the surface of the oceans which actually abut the atmosphere where the heat is supposedly building up. Maybe there is a mechanism that allows the heat to skip to the oceans' depths without affecting the rest of the planet. I don't think so, but I am prepared to let the global warming crowd produce proof for their hypothesis. So far, even they only talk about "promising research". Of course, they do not bother to tell us what that research is promising; I think it is the need for more research money for the discredited group.
The key now, however, is that we still have politicians (like president Obama) who remain in the thrall of the global warming hysterics. These folks are taking steps that hurt the world economy every day in the name of stopping a phenomenon that seems not to exist. What's next to come? Will Obama recommend that American reduce their incomes still further so as to prevent an impending invasion from Mars? It would make just about as much sense as his global warming ideas.
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