Global Warmingist's Perplexed

Check out how this little bit of anti-global warming science is spun:

Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. 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.

Got that? The message is "puzzling" because it gives them data that doesn't support their collective global warming theories. Either global warming has taken a "breather" or the scientists are just too damn stupid to figure out how to make the data more conducive to NPR reporting about the escalation of global warming. Note: these are the same scientists who provided data previously that people who listen to NPR were more than happy to exploit for their own, Gaia-proselytizing means.

This is puzzling in part because here on the surface of the Earth, the years since 2003 have been some of the hottest on record. But Josh Willis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the oceans are what really matter when it comes to global warming.

Yeah, I too find it amazing that global temperature increases of less than 1 degree celsius have not had the oceans boiling by now. I was thinking by this point, I could grab a pot of water out of the Atlantic surf, throw some ziti in there and in ten minutes I'd be chowing down.

In fact, 80 percent to 90 percent of global warming involves heating up ocean waters. They hold much more heat than the atmosphere can. So Willis has been studying the ocean with a fleet of robotic instruments called the Argo system. The buoys can dive 3,000 feet down and measure ocean temperature. Since the system was fully deployed in 2003, it has recorded no warming of the global oceans.

Call me stupid but may I suggest that there hasn't been any warming of the oceans?

"There has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant," Willis says. So the buildup of heat on Earth may be on a brief hiatus. "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."

Oh, okay. There has been cooling and at no time in the past five-years has there been any warming. So it must mean a period of less rapid warming even though there's been no warming on record. Got it? This pretzel logic is giving me a headache.

One possibility is that the sea has, in fact, warmed and expanded — and scientists are somehow misinterpreting the data from the diving buoys.

But if the aquatic robots are actually telling the right story, that raises a new question: Where is the extra heat all going?

Again with the scientists. Lay. Off. The. Scientists.

When these good men and women were reporting higher temperatures (and supporting global warmingist's doctrine) they were interpreting the data flawlessly, now, not so much. Perhaps the belief in global warming is...how to put this kindly...bullshit.

"I suspect that we'll able to put this together with a little bit more perspective and further analysis," Trenberth says. "But what this does is highlight some of the issues and send people back to the drawing board."

Translation, we need time to spin the data to make it look as if global warming is not a farce or is not slowing or else we lose the gravy train of grants from suckers who we've conned into believing global warming is real--cha-ching!. "Back to the drawing board" means we have a new grant proposal and we may just be able to claim this global warming thing exists until it's time to retire.

Update: More from Sweetness and Light and AJ Strata.

Update: Tim Blair linked. Thanks buddy, we all love an Aussielanche. AJ Strata did as well but the link is wrong and I can't seem to find his e-mail address on the site to tell him so.