Global not so warming again.

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<p>[The</a> Mystery of Global Warming’s Missing Heat : NPR](<a href=“http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025]The”>The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat : NPR)</p>

<p>"Kevin Trenberth at the National Center for Atmospheric Research says it’s probably going back out into space. The Earth has a number of natural thermostats, including clouds, which can either trap heat and turn up the temperature, or reflect sunlight and help cool the planet. </p>

<p>That can’t be directly measured at the moment, however. </p>

<p>“Unfortunately, we don’t have adequate tracking of clouds to determine exactly what role they’ve been playing during this period,” Trenberth says.</p>

<p>It’s also possible that some of the heat has gone even deeper into the ocean, he says. Or it’s possible that scientists need to correct for some other feature of the planet they don’t know about. It’s an exciting time, though, with all this new data about global sea temperature, sea level and other features of climate.</p>

<p>“I suspect that we’ll able to put this together with a little bit more perspective and further analysis,” Trenberth says. “But what this does is highlight some of the issues and send people back to the drawing board.”</p>

<p>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"</p>

<p>To summarize, we really don’t know how this crap works but they will give us millions if we scare people so party on Garth.</p>

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<p>There’s legitimate and well-supported scientific debate over the causes and consequences of climate change among experts who devote their lives to studying the fantastically-complex field of Earth science. What’s unfortunate is that people feel the need to take a dissenting view to its illogical extreme, i.e. “It’s not well-understood, which makes it overhyped/wrong/an empty attempt at scaring people.”* There’s a substantial middle ground between “complete fabrication” and “going to kill us within two years.” </p>

<p>There’s debate over whether or not dark matter consists of weakly-interacting massive particles or massive-compact halo objects, but you don’t see non-physicists going nuts over what one side or the other says. Thus, while recognizing the danger of blindly trusting consensus, I leave the mechanics of global warming to the smart people to figure out. I’ve met a few climatologists, and most of them are quiet, nerdy folks who don’t look like the type with political agendas. </p>

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<li>I don’t know if that’s actually your opinion at all, so I’m not responding to your post specifically.</li>
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