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March 29, 2010

Another Global Warming Lie Collapses: The Gulf Stream Is Not Slowing Down
— Gabriel Malor

Gore ~~weeps!~~ laughs all the way to the bank. Notice the suggestion that maybe, maybe there are natural cycles at work in the world around us:

The Gulf Stream does not appear to be slowing down, say US scientists who have used satellites to monitor tell-tale changes in the height of the sea.
Confirming work by other scientists using different methodologies, they found dramatic short-term variability but no longer-term trend.
A slow-down - dramatised in the movie The Day After Tomorrow - is projected by some models of climate change.
The stream is a key process in the climate of western Europe, bringing heat northwards from the tropics and keeping countries such as the UK 4-6C warmer than they would otherwise be.
The satellite record going back to 1993 did suggest a small increase in flow, although the researchers cannot be sure it is significant.
"The changes we're seeing in overturning strength are probably part of a natural cycle," said Josh Willis from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California.
"The slight increase in overturning since 1993 coincides with a decades-long natural pattern of Atlantic heating and cooling."

So let me get this straight. Simulations by some of the most well-known and important climate scientists tell us that global warming is slowing the Gulf Stream and could render the UK and northern Europe a frozen wasteland unless we return them, and ourselves, to pre-industrial sustainable societies. But some yahoos with a satellite actually went out and measured the thing?

Well, I know who I'm gonna believe.

Thanks to commenter, erm...Upscale Community Organizing Thought Criminal.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 09:05 AM | Comments (44)
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1
and so it ends...

Posted by: This is Candygram...Plumber...Landshark at March 29, 2010 09:06 AM (3njmu)

2
'ello

Posted by: This is Candygram...Plumber...Landshark at March 29, 2010 09:07 AM (3njmu)

3 You filthy, Big Oil funded Christianist Creationalist Deniers!

I ban you all!

*anybody want a calendar?*

Posted by: Charles Johnson, Bicycle Molesting Pervert And Science Guy at March 29, 2010 09:08 AM (xlzoZ)

4
A Gulfstream, you say? How much you want?

Posted by: Mike Steele - International Man of Expenditures at March 29, 2010 09:09 AM (fx8sm)

5 nanny nanny nanny! I can't hear you. I'm still planning to help the Dims cram Crap & Tax down your throats.

Posted by: Linseed Gwaham at March 29, 2010 09:10 AM (ucq49)

6 My Gulfstream hasn't slowed down one bit.

Posted by: Rush Limbaugh at March 29, 2010 09:11 AM (QKKT0)

7 You mean when we use advanced up to date technology we discover that the end of the worlders are completely full of shit? Wow what a shock. Isn't this about the same as the fact that satellite data concerning temperature has also proven their claims to be complete bunk?

Posted by: buzzion at March 29, 2010 09:11 AM (oVQFe)

8 Yes, but our new models say that the gulf stream not slowing down actually will cause more global warming! Mother Gaia is dying!

Posted by: Science as Religion at March 29, 2010 09:12 AM (OKZrE)

Ha ha, I love how the biggest loon --someone who is actually charged!-- threatening a congressman is from a blue state and threatened a Republican!

Bwahahahaha!

Posted by: logprof at March 29, 2010 09:12 AM (Mmw0q)

10 I pray that the day comes when global warming bullcrap goes the way of disco and people are embarrassed to admit they were 'into it'.

Posted by: negentropy at March 29, 2010 09:12 AM (27KAF)

11 The Red Cross launched an emergency appeal Monday for nearly one million dollars to help thousands of herders in Mongolia who have lost their livestock to one of the worst winters in decades.

Posted by: Rat Patrol at March 29, 2010 09:12 AM (dQdrY)

12 Note how that came from the BBC. Hahahahaha; OBama has done shit and dabbled in it.

The BBC has been a major liberal news outlet for a long time. They backed AGW to the hilt. But OBama shit on the British, was rude to the Queen and has generally just pissed the British off.

So the BBC has switched gears, AGW is now shit because OBama wants it. The BBC will rip it to shreds to spite OBama.

Hahahahahaha, yes, that special relationship is gone!

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2010 09:13 AM (QrA9E)

13 "The research is published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters." Or denier central as Gore calls it.

Posted by: Dr. Spank at March 29, 2010 09:13 AM (I1/U/)

14 We'll just see whether the Gulf Stream has slowed down wihen these SOBs get my subpoenas.

Posted by: Rep. Henry "Airscoop" Waxman (D) Nostrilstan at March 29, 2010 09:14 AM (QKKT0)

. . . they found dramatic short-term variability but no longer-term trend.

Yeah, those short-term thingys are called tides you fucking retards.

Posted by: 57 States at March 29, 2010 09:14 AM (kbH+o)

16 Hey, I may be old, but I'm not slowing down.

Posted by: the gulfstream at March 29, 2010 09:15 AM (Vu6sl)

17 2010 is the year the Leftists dropped their masks and forge ahead in their headlong power grab under the banner of "Global Warming" despite proof that it as all a lie. This never was about climate, always about power, It will be the end of them, hopefully.

Posted by: maddogg at March 29, 2010 09:17 AM (OlN4e)

18 All I want to know is, if we can do away with all this global whatever and Cap'n Tirade shit soon. Also, can we please not have anti-dumping laws against Korea? It is causing me major headaches.

Posted by: di butler, unlicensed pharmacist at March 29, 2010 09:17 AM (S3xX1)

19 And I'm not slowing down either, no matter what my wife says!!!

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 29, 2010 09:18 AM (0GFWk)

20 But it is slowing down! The earth's rotation is speeding up, so it only seems to be running at the same speed! So these numbers are wrong wrong wronG!

We're all doomed !! unless you buy some of my carbon offsets!

Posted by: Al Gore, hiding in his bunker complex in the Tennessee mountains at March 29, 2010 09:19 AM (27KAF)

21 Facts? Liberals don't need no stinkin' facts! Full speed ahead!

Posted by: wherestherum at March 29, 2010 09:20 AM (gofDd)

22 The scenario of a permanent slow down or halt via an ice dam was highly unlikely anyway, and based on a partially discredited theory that the ice ages are caused by catastrophic fresh water flooding in the arctic. The ice ages are now thought to be a result of global tilt, which makes the onset a slow process (as shown by the paleo record). But the Warmists did not get the memo.

Posted by: pat at March 29, 2010 09:20 AM (vZL64)

23 Tax carbon trading profits at 100%. See how fast this goes away.

Posted by: Rat Patrol at March 29, 2010 09:21 AM (dQdrY)

10 Hey, pick another analogy! I like disco! And by like I mean I can tolerate it on my iPod work-out shuffle.

Here's any number of acceptable comparisons: Furbies, the Cheatriots Patriots, Melrose Place, Mark McGuire, tight-rolling jeans circa 1989, and of course Barry Sotero.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 29, 2010 09:22 AM (pLTLS)

25 I have a fever. Will Obamacare cover me?

Posted by: Grandmother Gaia at March 29, 2010 09:23 AM (GwPRU)

Frak da friggin gulf stream...where da LESBIANS!!!

Posted by: Drunkin M Steele at March 29, 2010 09:23 AM (pr+up)

27 13 I have a constituent that you won't believe and I know you won't, but her sister died, this poor woman had no dentures. Until we get cap on trade passed she still won't have dentures. This is the last chance as far as I'm concerned on the export business. We have fallen behind and no longer the biggest manufacturer in the world and lost our technological edge. We have an opportunity to do that, but the major part of the success of that is getting this cap on trade bill passed.

Posted by: Louise Slaughter at March 29, 2010 01:13 PM (IhHdM)

*Raises a brick*

Posted by: Pyrocles at March 29, 2010 09:25 AM (xzSvW)

28 Gore was talking about his Gulfstream. He's been flying slower to save gas.

Posted by: kansas at March 29, 2010 09:28 AM (mka2b)

29 pa paa paa paaa poopity pooooooooooooooo!

Posted by: Andy Rand at March 29, 2010 09:28 AM (mhD2v)

30 Yeah, a friend of mine was using this bullshit to explain the chilly British winter.

Posted by: logprof at March 29, 2010 09:29 AM (Mmw0q)

31 11 The Red Cross launched an emergency appeal Monday for nearly one million dollars to help thousands of herders in Mongolia who have lost their livestock to one of the worst winters in decades.

Posted by: Rat Patrol at March 29, 2010 01:12 PM (dQdrY)

--Are Mongolians considered Asian? Brown? Are they Muslim? Since I have never travelled beyond the local Wal-Mart, I know nothing about the world so I don;t know why I should hate them and let them die.

Posted by: logprof, racist teabagger at March 29, 2010 09:32 AM (Mmw0q)

32 I know nothing about the world so I don;t know why I should hate them and let them die.

Posted by: logprof, racist teabagger at March 29, 2010 01:32 PM (Mmw0q)

They live the life the lefties are selling. Gaia will kill them if she can.

I fear Global Cooling because the sun hates us. We need a snuggie in every yurt.

Posted by: Rat Patrol at March 29, 2010 09:37 AM (dQdrY)

33 In other news, blood pressure medicine appears to slow spread of cancer. BBC Science section.

Posted by: pat at March 29, 2010 09:40 AM (vZL64)

34 We have changed the wording of our assertion to say, instead of a Gulfstream slow-down, Climate Change will cause a Gulfstream Change. There, disprove that, you Gaia-hating deniers!

Posted by: Climate Change model team at March 29, 2010 10:03 AM (wpuKF)

35 Did anyone watch any of the Egypt-themed shows on the Discovery Channel? Fascinating, and for more than just the mummies. The archaeologists on one show hypothesized that because of natural changes to the gulf stream over 4000 years ago, CLIMATE CHANGE occurred (and yes, they actually used that phrase), creating the Sahara and forcing nomadic peoples in northern Africa to adapt and congregate to the Nile. In summary, climate change over 4000 years ago led to the creation and rise of the Egyptian Empire. One more thing to throw in the faces of global warming doomsdayers; not all climate change is man-made, and not all of it is bad

Posted by: LizLem at March 29, 2010 10:43 AM (lSuMX)

36 JWF has another good one up. Global warming idiots freeze to death in Antarctica.

Posted by: maddogg at March 29, 2010 10:44 AM (OlN4e)

37 Posted by: maddogg at March 29, 2010 02:44 PM (OlN4e)

If that wasn't so sad it would be funny. It shows you how utterly clueless the true believers are. Evidently these people were too stupid to even realize they should consult an expert while planning their trip BEFORE going down there.

Oh well, Darwin at work.

Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2010 10:56 AM (QrA9E)

38 38 anyone know what he was a professor of? July in the Southern hemisphere is winter.
His wife isn't much smarter "He kept talking about when they 'get down to chili', and I thought they were talking about the order in which they would consume their food supplies", Mrs. Schneider recounted. "I had no idea they were talking about Chile, the country from which you usually fly or sail in order to reach Antarctica".

Posted by: Jamie at March 29, 2010 11:25 AM (CTJDC)

39 Thanks to commenter, erm...Upscale Community Organizing Thought Criminal.

Heh. I knew I liked this guy.

Posted by: FUBAR at March 29, 2010 01:55 PM (1fanL)

40 Hell yeah! Let's listen to them when what they say confirms what we already believe!

Posted by: smijer at March 29, 2010 02:29 PM (b3chg)

41 I can't help but think that the scientists who wrote this report are probably about at least as smart as us concerning their fields of expertise. Which is weird, since their field is related to climate change. But it's nice not to have to intellectually tower over *all* the climate scientists!

Posted by: smijer at March 29, 2010 02:34 PM (b3chg)

42 I remember one of the preeminent oceanographers in the world sent a peevish letter to Science Magazine after they had published some silly AGW screed oggy-boogying about how the Gulf Stream was going to stop and OMGWTF we're all gonna die!
Using a block of calculations, he pointed out that the only two things that could stop the Gulf Stream were:
A. Halting the rotation of the Earth, or
B. Moving the continents around (which plate tectonics is going but it's going to take a bit more than 50 years).

Posted by: Nemo from Erewhon at March 29, 2010 04:09 PM (5mWrT)

43 global warming is the main problem now.we need unity to solve this

Posted by: yeast infection treatment at November 16, 2010 08:41 AM (olwoq)

44 we must try to stop global warmimg

Posted by: fat burning exercises at November 16, 2010 06:54 PM (JIhhW)

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