First, NASA has spent about $30 million a year on a system of robot buoys that are supposed to measure ocean temperatures. Guess what they are finding? Oceans have cooled. Check it out:
Argo is a global array of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that measures the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean. This allows, for the first time, continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean, with all data being relayed and made publicly available within hours after collection.
Argo deployments began in 2000 and by November 2007 the array is 100% complete. Today's tally of floats is shown in the figure above.While the Argo array is currently complete at 3000 floats, to be maintained at that level, national commitments need to provide about 800 floats per year (which has occurred for the past three years).
Ocean temperature is the key to global temperature (which would make sense, given that the vast majority of the face of the planet is covered by ocean):
Josh Willis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the oceans are what really matter when it comes to global warming.
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. "There has been a very slight cooling..."
Danny Huddleston says "[i]t might just be worth 20 million if it helps to calm down global warming hysteria." I agree - some things are just worth paying for.
Second, the world's foremost hurricane forecaster is being black-balled because of his open skepticism of man-made climate change. Excerpts:
By pioneering the science of seasonal hurricane forecasting and teaching 70 graduate students who now populate the National Hurricane Center and other research outposts, William Gray turned a city far from the stormy seas into a hurricane research mecca.
But now the institution in Fort Collins, Colo., where he has worked for nearly half a century, has told Gray it may end its support of his seasonal forecasting.
As he enters his 25th year of predicting hurricane season activity, Colorado State University officials say handling media inquiries related to Gray's forecasting requires too much time and detracts from efforts to promote other professors' work.
But Gray, a highly visible and sometimes acerbic skeptic of climate change, says that's a "flimsy excuse" for the real motivation — a desire to push him aside because of his global warming criticism.
Among other comments, Gray has said global warming scientists are "brainwashing our children."
Bill Gray is a prime example of Ben Stein's recently released movie, "Expelled". The movie talks about how our educational system tries to squash any dissent from the typical left-wing agenda-driven curriculum, like evolution. The point here is that academia has made a monolithic decision to run out anyone who doesn't toe the line, whether it's about evolution, man-made climate change, or any other hot button topic. For CSU to run out a titan of the field like Gray is the best example there is of neglecting actual educational results in favor of politically-oriented brainwashing.
This is what happens when the liberalism infection spreads so far that it takes over. These things will continue until the American people stand up and refuse to allow this idiocy. It's up to you and me...what are you going to do about it?
There's my two cents.
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