[thenightwriterblog] The Night Writer: Man, that water's cold

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Posted by The Night Writer:
Man, that water's cold
http://thenightwriterblog.powerblogs.com/posts/1206158883.shtml


   ... Deep, too!
   From [1]NPR:

     The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat
     by Richard Harris
     March 19, 2008 · 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.
     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.
     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.

References

   1. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025<br/>