Well no, actually, that's illogical. Cooling can not be defined as warming, being that they mean the opposite thing, right? Have I got that right?
Here's what NPR has to say about it:
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.
This is puzzling in part because here on the surface of the Earth, the
years since 2003 have been some of the hottest on record. But Josh Willis at
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the oceans are what really matter when it
comes to global warming.
The buoys can dive 3,000 feet down and measure ocean temperature. Since
the system was fully deployed in 2003, it has recorded no warming of the global
oceans.
"There has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really
significant," Willis says. So the buildup of heat on Earth may be on a brief
hiatus. "Global warming doesn't mean every year will be warmer than the last.
And it may be that we are in a period of less rapid 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, there is something mysterious going on. It appears that scientific data is being ignored, or reinterpreted to support a scenario which is contradicted by the data itself. It would seem that money and notoriety have become part of the scientific method.
That is mysterious, isn't it?
In fact, it would seem that what is "anthropogenic" about Global Warming is that it is the theory itself, not the temperatures, which are man-made.
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