Dennis Avery
March 26, 2008
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2355
QUOTE: "There is nothing in the climate record that ties the earth's
temperatures to CO2 levels."
Something isn't following the Greenhouse script
This year of 2008 is starting out cold-but according to the "consensus"
climate watchers it's still likely to be one of the "top 10 warmest" in
the thermometer record before it's over. After all, the Greenhouse
gasses continue to accumulate in the atmosphere.
But wait. Something isn't following the Greenhouse script. The oceans,
which contain 80 to 90 percent of the planet's heat, have recently
stopped warming!
Over the past 4-5 years, "there has been a very slight cooling, but not
anything really significant," Josh Willis of NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory recently told National Public Radio.
Nothing very significant-except the ocean warming trend has stopped?!
This, in the midst of the biggest furor over global temperatures and
climate overheating in human history?
Willis monitors the data from a nifty new set of Argo ocean buoys. They
not only record sea surface temperatures but periodically dive 3,000
feet under water and record sub-surface temperatures as they rise back
up. These wonderful new Argo floats say the oceans have been cooling
slightly for the past 4-5 years, instead of accentuating a continuing
global warming trend.
But how can the ocean warming stop? Greenhouse gases have continued to
spew from Chinese factories. Even Europe's Kyoto-bound economies are
still increasing their greenhouse emissions. There should be no relief
from the planet's heating.
Except that over the last 13 months, the earth's thermometers have
dropped for the first time in 30 years. Three global monitoring sites
measured a decline of 0.5 to 0.7 degree C.
Now we learn that the ocean warming stopped even earlier, 4-5 years ago.
We should have been expecting this, because the sunspot index turned
down nine years ago. There's a 79 percent correlation between the
sunspots and the earth's sea-surface temperatures-with roughly a
ten-year lag.
Is ten years the time required for the oceans to respond to changes on
the sun?
There is nothing in the climate record that ties the earth's
temperatures to CO2 levels. Al Gore's movie showed Antarctic ice core
temperatures and CO2 moving closely together through four different Ice
Ages. Gore implied that more CO2 leads to higher temperatures. But Gore
reversed cause and effect. Three different Antarctic studies show the
temperatures change 800-1200 years before the CO2 levels. Higher
temperatures cause more CO2 in the air, not the other way around.
The big question is what warms the oceans. Is it CO2 or sun? For the
past nine years, CO2 has continued to rise in the atmosphere, but the
earth hasn't gotten warmer. The sun is winning the debate.
NPR asked Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmosphere Research
where "all the extra heat from the CO2" was going. He said it was
probably going into outer space, through the "natural thermostats,
including clouds," which can either trap solar heat in earth's
atmosphere, or deflect it out back out into space.
Thank you, Dr. Trenberth, for finally admitting that the earth does,
indeed, have natural thermostats such as clouds. And what seems to
control those natural thermostats? The level of activity on the sun,
through varying numbers of cosmic rays that create more or fewer of the
low, wet clouds that deflect solar heat back into space.
It's unthinkable, but what if there's no "extra heat" being trapped by
CO2 right now? What if CO2 levels don't matter much? What if the earth
is starting to cool in response to the sun's declining level of
activity? What an inconvenient truth.
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on
long, medium and even short time scales." R. Timothy Patterson,
Professor Of Geology, Director Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center,
Carleton University, Canada
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