The biggest problem facing the folks who push the so-called "settled" science of man made global warming has been the lack of warming over the last 18 years. During that time, actual measurements of atmospheric temperatures at thousands of locations around the world have stayed steady. Oh, there have obviously been ups and downs as the weather changes over days and months, but the statistical trend line for world atmospheric temperatures has been level for nearly two decades. Constant temperatures like that contradict every one of the models used by the global warming theorists to explain the effect of the greenhouse gases which they claim are causing the Earth to warm. Rather than accepting that there is something wrong with the man-made global warming theory since it cannot explain current conditions, the global warming crowd came up with a bunch of explanations about the steadiness of the world's temperatures. The most widely used explanation has been that the heat generated by man made global warming is being absorbed by the deep oceans and in a few years that heat will be pushed back into the atmosphere with disastrous consequences.
The theory that heat is going into the deep oceans always had major problems. The most obvious of these is the lack of any reasonable explanation how heat generated in the atmosphere by the action of greenhouse gases could somehow get to the deep oceans without first heating up the atmosphere, something we know has not been happening. Despite this apparent logical failure, the global warming hysterics still pushed the idea of deep ocean warming. To many, it seemed that the allure of the deep ocean warming theory was that we did not know the temperatures of the deep ocean water, so there was no way to disprove their theory.
In a major blow to global warming theory, however, that deep ocean warming theory has now been shown to be inaccurate by looking at the actual data. For the last decade, readings have been taken at a depth of 2000 meters (about 1.2 miles) by the National Oceanographic Data Center. Those readings found that the water at that depth has been warming, but only at a rate of 0.03 degrees Centigrade per decade. At that rate, it would take 330 years for the water to rise by just one degree. What this means is that if the supposed heat from man made global warming is going into the deep oceans, then the planet will not warm in any appreciable manner for many centuries. This is exactly the opposite of what the global warming crowd says.
There is a detailed explanation of this data and its impact on the global warming theory at Watts Up With That which is well worth reading. Don't expect to see a discussion of this new data in the mainstream media. In fact, this morning the front page of the New York Times talks about new alarming signals of global warming. Amazingly, the Times never discusses how the USA saw the coldest winter in 115 years in 2013, when the world is supposedly warming. The Times never reports about the sea ice in the Antarctic being the most widespread since record keeping began despite the predictions that it would all be gone by now. All we get is propaganda. You know, "all the news that fits the narrative."
The theory that heat is going into the deep oceans always had major problems. The most obvious of these is the lack of any reasonable explanation how heat generated in the atmosphere by the action of greenhouse gases could somehow get to the deep oceans without first heating up the atmosphere, something we know has not been happening. Despite this apparent logical failure, the global warming hysterics still pushed the idea of deep ocean warming. To many, it seemed that the allure of the deep ocean warming theory was that we did not know the temperatures of the deep ocean water, so there was no way to disprove their theory.
In a major blow to global warming theory, however, that deep ocean warming theory has now been shown to be inaccurate by looking at the actual data. For the last decade, readings have been taken at a depth of 2000 meters (about 1.2 miles) by the National Oceanographic Data Center. Those readings found that the water at that depth has been warming, but only at a rate of 0.03 degrees Centigrade per decade. At that rate, it would take 330 years for the water to rise by just one degree. What this means is that if the supposed heat from man made global warming is going into the deep oceans, then the planet will not warm in any appreciable manner for many centuries. This is exactly the opposite of what the global warming crowd says.
There is a detailed explanation of this data and its impact on the global warming theory at Watts Up With That which is well worth reading. Don't expect to see a discussion of this new data in the mainstream media. In fact, this morning the front page of the New York Times talks about new alarming signals of global warming. Amazingly, the Times never discusses how the USA saw the coldest winter in 115 years in 2013, when the world is supposedly warming. The Times never reports about the sea ice in the Antarctic being the most widespread since record keeping began despite the predictions that it would all be gone by now. All we get is propaganda. You know, "all the news that fits the narrative."
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