Not exact matches
This
claim is missing one key point: the
temperature series used to determine
global warming trends is the combined Land and
Ocean series.
Jeff Masters, a meteorologist with a bent to blaming every weather event on
global warming, chose to make some extreme
claims about hot
ocean temperatures that are... er... well, bizarre for someone with a science background.
How on earth anyone
claims to know the total
global average
temperature today, including all layers of the
oceans and atmosphere, begs belief.
Claims that
global warming is not happening on the basis of short - term
ocean temperatures are not supported by the evidence.
In a new study, researchers
claimed that a group of methane - munching microbes that live in rocky dwellings on the seafloor could be preventing large amounts of greenhouse gas from reaching the surface of the
ocean and the atmosphere, where it could contribute to rising
global temperatures.
Their predictions — based on an analysis of natural cycles in water
temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic
oceans — challenge some of the
global warming orthodoxy's most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the
claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.
No doubt, if and when the Gulf Stream fails and North Atlantic
temperatures plunge (as happened repeatedly during
global warming events in the recent history of Earth, due to ice melt flowing into the
ocean)-- denialists will
claim «
global cooling».