Global Warming Is Real

or,

So, You Still Believe In The Tooth Fairy (And Anthropogenic Global Warming)?

For those who are not following this matter closely, please take a moment to catch up on what the ARGO project is all about, here (UCSD) and here (UW).

Okay, everybody up to speed? Great.

Now, check out what ARGO has to tell us about the rapid warming of the global ocean waters:


Image taken from
the National Oceanographic Partnership Program website

okay, so what?

So, here is hard evidence of a short-term oceanic global cooling trend and you never heard about it until just now.

If there had been hard evidence from such a reliable source as ARGO that the oceans were heating, Al Gore would be all over his Internets crowing about it and you would see it all over the nightly news. Above the fold on the New York Times. Global warming theories contraindicated? Well, maybe we'll just spike that one.

This of course leaves it to the pundits to tell each other what it means, and to suffer ad hominem attacks by way of response in various internet arguments.

Are you ready to panic about anthropogenic globalwarming yet?

Maybe you should wait until you hear that NASA had a little oopsy and revised global temperatures downward recently, doing rather a lot of damage to folks who rely on the hocky stick graph.

(by the way, they should be relying on it less, since the guy who made it used a program that guaranteed he'd get one no matter what)
(Which was easier when he didn't include data that prevented any hockey-stick action)

You like all those fancy graphs? Go here for a primer
And your head could explode when you see all these fancy proxy graphs

BUT BUT the scientists say that the earth will heat! The computer models says so!

Hold on there.

The models are not exactly the be-all-end-all of reliability.

Folks, Global warming is REAL. We can't go from an ice age and glaciers all over the place to having farms where the glaciers were, without global warming.

I won't mention that the Flood probably did a lot of the work attributed to glaciers, if you don't say the warming since the planet was icy, was all caused by man

The sun, it heats us.

Duh?