At least over there at NPR, where Glenn Reynolds has noted this article, and quoted this key graf:
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.
Or it could mean that THERE AIN'T NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING.
The article goes on in this breathless vein, trying to find reasons why the oceans would be cooling but the air warming:
In recent years, heat has actually been flowing out of the ocean and into the air. This is a feature of the weather phenomenon known as El Nino. So it is indeed possible the air has warmed but the ocean has not. But it's also possible that something more mysterious is going on.
Yeah...like THERE AIN'T NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING.
Willis says some of this water is apparently coming from a recent increase in the melting rate of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica."But in fact there's a little bit of a mystery. We can't account for all of the sea level increase we've seen over the last three or four years," he says.
But I thought that melt rate had backed off and ice was coming back in both places? I'm sure I read articles about how some areas of Greenland that had recently become habitable again had significant ice encroachment this past winter, and that for the small area of Antarctica where there is significant melting, there's a vastly larger area that's piling on the ice at record rates.
Trenberth and Willis agree that a few mild years have no effect on the long-term trend of global warming. But they say there are still things to learn about how our planet copes with the heat.
Yeah -- like, when you go looking for something specific and fit only the useful data to your preconceived notions and ignore the stuff that doesn't fit, you can find just about anything. Which is the sad state of "climate science" today, unfortunately.
