Leatherhead Matters

This map of the world’s oceans shows the deployment of over 3000 floating, temperature and salinity measurement robots deployed by the Argo collaboration in 2003. This project has just hit the news in the USA because NPR (National Public Radio) has just reported on the first 5 years of data on temperature trends in our oceans.

The Argo project makes an important contribution to our understanding of Climate Change since,  80-90 percent of global warming goes into the oceans and the ocean’s warming should be aligned with hypothetical global warming trends.

The robots are programmed to cycle to their measuring depth and then surface & transmit their data via satellite.

So, the measurements from over 3000 robots confirm the hypothesis of global warming, right? Well much to the chagrin of the 2500 IPCC politically funded scientists and other eco warriors….No!

The data shows zero, zilch,nada increase in ocean temperatures and actually shows a very small decrease, since 2003. How can these actual measurements from 3110 robots not confirm the new religion of global warming? Should we now start asking for tax rebates from our Government, for all those green taxes we are paying? Are all those carbon credits, now devaluing like other parts of our economy?

In the NPR program, Kevin Trenberth, one of the more alarmist IPCC members, invents a new hypothesis to try and explain the Argos project data….we may be going through a period of Global Clouding! He thinks that the cooling effects induced by clouds might be responsible for the discrepancy between the actual data & the global warming hypothesis. Oh dear Kevin! This isn’t science as I know it, it’s scrambling to make the data fit your hypothesis rather than the other way round.