Monday, 23 March 2009

Our cooling oceans...

...Al Gore's preposterous statement that the science of global warming was settled continues to be defied by scientists. Ongoing studies into cloud and cosmic ray intereaction, (see CERN here) stratospheric temperature measurements (see the IBUKI programme here) and ocean temperature measurements will ultimately give us more definitive answers to climate questions.The latest results from the ARGO sea temperature measurement programme confirm ocean cooling over the last 5 years...

...THERE are 3,000 free-drifting buoys in the world’s ocean; first deployed in the year 2000 they allow continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean.There has though been some difficulty in interpreting the data from these buoys. Initial signs of cooling were dismissed as due to technical errors subsequently corrected based on a small sample of the 3,000 buoys known as profiling floats.

Craig Loehle has analysed the data from only the profiling floats for ocean heat content from 2003 to 2008. In a paper recently published in the journal Energy and Environment he has concluded that there has been ocean cooling over this period.

Dr Loehle’s findings are consistent with satellite and surface instrumental records that do not showing a warming trend over recent years...more from Jennifer Marohasy here... and WuWT here...

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