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2008-03-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

"Less rapid" Global Warming Alert: It's the Oceans stupid!

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-03-19 13:44|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 I have noted that in the last two days, there has been a whole bunch of MSM news stories trying to re-start MMGW. I doubt this is a coincidence.

But when push comes to shove, hopefully cooler political heads will prevail and they will decide to debate the issue for a year or two instead of being stampeded into a terribly expensive mistake.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-03-19 14:55|| 2008-03-19 14:55|| Front Page Top

#2 They need to change the subject from BO to 'anything' else. I see it as damage control / changing the subject.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2008-03-19 15:00|| 2008-03-19 15:00|| Front Page Top

#3 "...here on the surface of the Earth, the years since 2003 have been some of the hottest on record. "

Wait a minute. I've kept hearing that the temp hasn't really gone up for 10 years or so now. Is this a spin attempt (yeah, it hasn't gotten hotter but it's still hot) or am I missing something.

Posted by AlanC 2008-03-19 15:56|| 2008-03-19 15:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Sea level rises when the oceans get warm because warmer water expands.

Water expands as it warms?

Posted by DoDo 2008-03-19 16:01|| 2008-03-19 16:01|| Front Page Top

#5 In further evidence of Global Warming, MacArthur Park is melting in the dark.

Posted by Richard Harris 2008-03-19 16:18|| 2008-03-19 16:18|| Front Page Top

#6 These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren't quite understanding what their robots are telling them.

Or it could mean the MMGW doesn't exist and the robots are telling us this.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2008-03-19 16:21|| 2008-03-19 16:21|| Front Page Top

#7 House Prices only go up, this market is temporary...

"Global warming doesn't mean every year will be warmer than the last. And it may be that we are in a period of less rapid warming."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niVjE5m4v2o

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-03-19 16:37|| 2008-03-19 16:37|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm with AlanC on this one.

Last I heard, the latest NASA reports on global temperatures had to be restated as the initial calculations, which pegged 2003 as the warmest year on record, were discovered to be flawed. The corrected calculations resulted in 1998 being the warmest year on record, not 2003, as this article states.

Or am I wrong about that?

Posted by eltoroverde 2008-03-19 17:01|| 2008-03-19 17:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Mr. Green Bull, you are correct.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-03-19 17:54|| 2008-03-19 17:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Dodo

Yes
Water has a maximum density around 40F. Lower or higher than that temperature it starts to expand.

Posted by Zebulon Unomolet6509 2008-03-19 19:00|| 2008-03-19 19:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Less rapid warming?

Thats double plus ungood for the use of Anthropogenic Global Warming to advance central governmental planning and management of all resources and humanity.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-19 19:21|| 2008-03-19 19:21|| Front Page Top

#12 The corrected calculations resulted in 1998 being the warmest year on record, not 2003, as this article states.

Actually that is wrong as well. With the corrected calculations, 1933 was the hottest year on record for the past 100 years. 1998 only ranked sixth. Also, with the corrected calculations, the hockey stick graph disappeared and the spikes became normal fluctuation of temperatures.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-03-19 21:08|| 2008-03-19 21:08|| Front Page Top

#13 OWG-NWO NOW, D *** NG IT, THERES TREASON AND SCHEMIN' AFOOT INSIDE THE EARTH'S CORE! Time for Supreme HeadQuarters, PLanetary Core Defense Force to dev a Core-destroying supermissle to defeat the Heat Energy imperialism of the Mole Men, allied Troglobytes, + Men from Mars! WE FORCED THE SUN TO SETTLE DOWN VV GLOBAL COOLING - WE'LL FORCE THE MOLE MEN TO HEAT THE EARTH UP, THIS TIME WE'LL BLOW UP THE EARTH TO SAVE HUMANITY!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-03-19 21:26|| 2008-03-19 21:26|| Front Page Top

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