It is now obvious, other than to the most dedicated HAF, that the whole notion of CO2-caused global warming has followed the example of the dodo! It is patently clear that given an increase of CO2 of 11% over the last 22 years (no doubt helped along by all those Chinese coal-driven power-stations which open at the rate of one a week, or is one a day?), then global temperatures should be rocketing with daily queues forming for sun-block and parasols. Alas, the best this measely old globe could manage by way of an increase in temperature from 1989 to 2011 was - wait for it - a pathetic 0.2C. In fact the only red faces around are not due to sun burn but to the embarrassment of the HAF 'scientists' who fed the data to the IPCC who then produced their wildly exaggerated forecasts:
Desperately seeking an umbrella under which to hide their embarrassment, not their sun-burnt skins, the HAF 'scientists' have now come up with a real corker: the heat they absolutely and definitely forecast, they now say, is actually hidden at the bottom of the ocean! (Oh, yeah, right, OK, now why don't you take your pills and have a nice lie down?) As the 16 scientists point out in a reply to the criticism leveled at them by the likes of Trenberth & Co (dedicated HAFs, all of them):
The ARGO system of diving buoys is providing increasingly reliable data on the temperature of the upper layers of the ocean, where much of any heat from global warming must reside. But much like the surface temperature shown in the graph, the heat content of the upper layers of the world's oceans is not increasing nearly as fast as IPCC models predict, perhaps not increasing at all. Why should we now believe exaggerating IPCC models that tell us of "missing heat" hiding in the one place where it cannot yet be reliably measured—the deep ocean?
What will they think of next? This blog in its usual fair and open-minded way is open to suggestions as to where all that missing heat is hiding but I must ask you to observe the proprieties. Suggestions to the effect that the barmaid at the Dog and Duck is definitely hiding some considerable heat down the front of her blouse will not be allowed! (Er, unless you tell me where the Dog and Duck is located!)
They started as duds and became crooks, the HAFs. You probably saw the like in the motor trade, Duffers.
Posted by: dearieme | Thursday, 23 February 2012 at 18:21
I say, steady on, DM, old chap, that's a bit near the knuckle. "Dud", I was indubitably; "crook" . . . weeeeell, it all depends how you look at it, I mean, fair's fair, your honour, ooops, sorry, I mean, DM!
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 23 February 2012 at 19:39
Great fun isn't it. We're at the slapstick stage now - custard pie theories flung across the lecture theatre.
Of course warm water sinks to the bottom of the oceans - it's lighter than cold water which makes it more inclined to wander off.
Even my crusty old physics teacher would have laughed his socks off.
Posted by: A K Haart | Thursday, 23 February 2012 at 20:05
I'd laugh a bit more if only it wasn't costing me so much!
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 23 February 2012 at 21:39