People who make a living by pushing the idea that climate change (AKA global warming) is a fantasy are getting a bit of pushback from the data. (Darn that data. It's such a nuisance for wingnuts. Can't they just be left in peace with their fantasies?)
The story goes like this: the Pacific Ocean should be heating up because of climate change...but it's not. "See?" the idiots scream, "I tollja climate change was just a demonic illusion! Praise Jeebus, who will always protect us!"
Alas for the wingnuts, it seems that scientists will have the final say in this matter. Unlike religious fabulists, scientists look for real-life answers to real-life problems in, of all places, real-life data. They knew the heat that should be in the Pacific Ocean had to go somewhere, so they followed its trail. It turns out the heat traveled to the Indian Ocean, where it is waiting patiently for its day on the stage. Read the linked article to find out how it got there. To sum up: mystery solved. But as the article notes:
The story goes like this: the Pacific Ocean should be heating up because of climate change...but it's not. "See?" the idiots scream, "I tollja climate change was just a demonic illusion! Praise Jeebus, who will always protect us!"
Alas for the wingnuts, it seems that scientists will have the final say in this matter. Unlike religious fabulists, scientists look for real-life answers to real-life problems in, of all places, real-life data. They knew the heat that should be in the Pacific Ocean had to go somewhere, so they followed its trail. It turns out the heat traveled to the Indian Ocean, where it is waiting patiently for its day on the stage. Read the linked article to find out how it got there. To sum up: mystery solved. But as the article notes:
The finding by the team appears to be both good and bad news. The good news is that it adds credence to global warming theories—the bad news is that it means that it is possible that at some point in the future all that heat in the ocean could be released back into the atmosphere, creating a sudden temperature spike which would almost assuredly cause massive worldwide problems for those of us that caused the problem in the first place.We are entering a very frightening era and we do not have rational, informed leaders to guide us through the coming crisis. It's not Satan that's coming, as so many gay-hating religious people fear, it's deadly heat. The times, they are a'changing...and we are so unprepared.
The finding by the team
appears to be both good and bad news. The good news is that it adds
credence to global warming theories—the bad news is that it means that
it is possible that at some point in the future all that heat in the
ocean could be released back into the atmosphere, creating a sudden
temperature spike which would almost assuredly cause massive worldwide
problems for those of us that caused the problem in the first place.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-05-global-captured-pacific-ocean-indian.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-05-global-captured-pacific-ocean-indian.html#jCp
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