If sea level rise is accelerating, wouldn’t land based astronomers have to correct their sidereal clocks more often to compensate for the slowing of the Earth’s rotation due to conservation of momentum because of all the additional new ocean water caused by ice melt off Greenland and other land glaciers expanding the oblate spheroid at the Earth’s equator? I still haven’t seen a clear explanation of that.
The moment there’s the tiniest sign of an acceleration in sea level rise, as measured by the Earth’s spin rate, which is the only measurement that can’t be fudged, a thousand papers will shoot to all the journals in a mad rush to claim credit for discovering definitive proof of global warming. And yet that has never happened.
The data from the Argo floats, if I recall correctly also go against the rising sea temperature narrative. But maybe I’m wrong. I don’t follow it closely.
They measured an increase at a rate of 0.02 degrees per century.
The Argo floats are amazing pieces of technology, and are equipped with temperature measuring devices (platinum resistance thermometers) that are both super accurate (+/- 0.001 C) and stable (recovered floats show the PRTs in calibration after years of service). Indeed, they outdo any surface weather station.
But there are only 3,881 of them in 361 million square kilometers of oceans. If they were uniformly spaced, there would be 305 km between floats. But they’re not. They drift, and so chaotically clump and un-clump geodetically.
Every 10 days, an Argo float will surface, take a GPS location reading, submerge to 2,000 meters depth, measuring temperature, salinity, and other parameters along the way, then surface, take another GPS location reading and broadcast the data via satellite link to participating locations. Then they sink to a safe depth to await the next cycle.
The data are truly exquisite. But their use is anything but. Because of model requirements, the oceans are “gridded” – that is, divided into equally spaced surface points with lines running from there to the center of the Earth. Data from each float’s transit is then interpolated from where it actually was taken to the pre-established grid points with data from the nearest floats surrounding those grid points. The validity of that interpolated “data” is highly questionable, especially since the point spacing can vary in three dimensions (drift while submerged is unknown, but finite) over a single sample period. More importantly, the reported “data” do not reflect data taken at the location reported – just as surface temperature data (aside from satellite measured) are never actual measurements, only interpolated values.
I therefore doubt the validity of any trend analysis purporting to show a 0.02 C per century change in a 722 million cubic kilometer water volume using data smashing techniques which serve mainly to delete as much information as possible.
I read some background on him a while ago. He has experience with preachers (I think his father or maybe grandfather was one), and he acts like one as a result.
The actual content may not be millenarian Christianity, but the delivery is the same. H*llfire and d*mnation is second nature, as well as ranting.
Must have been his grandfather. His father was a US senator who got rich off oil investments…and probably the usual graft.
I keep hoping against hope that that alcoholic will sometime say something that is true.
Which will be a first, for him.
Still waiting.
Wow….it’s not hyperbola, he actually did say the oceans are “boiling” :
“The Oceans Are Boiling” – Al Gore RIPS World Leaders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD32KagxG_g
He does sound unhinged (lunatic) though.
If sea level rise is accelerating, wouldn’t land based astronomers have to correct their sidereal clocks more often to compensate for the slowing of the Earth’s rotation due to conservation of momentum because of all the additional new ocean water caused by ice melt off Greenland and other land glaciers expanding the oblate spheroid at the Earth’s equator? I still haven’t seen a clear explanation of that.
The moment there’s the tiniest sign of an acceleration in sea level rise, as measured by the Earth’s spin rate, which is the only measurement that can’t be fudged, a thousand papers will shoot to all the journals in a mad rush to claim credit for discovering definitive proof of global warming. And yet that has never happened.
The data from the Argo floats, if I recall correctly also go against the rising sea temperature narrative. But maybe I’m wrong. I don’t follow it closely.
They measured an increase at a rate of 0.02 degrees per century.
The Argo floats are amazing pieces of technology, and are equipped with temperature measuring devices (platinum resistance thermometers) that are both super accurate (+/- 0.001 C) and stable (recovered floats show the PRTs in calibration after years of service). Indeed, they outdo any surface weather station.
But there are only 3,881 of them in 361 million square kilometers of oceans. If they were uniformly spaced, there would be 305 km between floats. But they’re not. They drift, and so chaotically clump and un-clump geodetically.
Every 10 days, an Argo float will surface, take a GPS location reading, submerge to 2,000 meters depth, measuring temperature, salinity, and other parameters along the way, then surface, take another GPS location reading and broadcast the data via satellite link to participating locations. Then they sink to a safe depth to await the next cycle.
The data are truly exquisite. But their use is anything but. Because of model requirements, the oceans are “gridded” – that is, divided into equally spaced surface points with lines running from there to the center of the Earth. Data from each float’s transit is then interpolated from where it actually was taken to the pre-established grid points with data from the nearest floats surrounding those grid points. The validity of that interpolated “data” is highly questionable, especially since the point spacing can vary in three dimensions (drift while submerged is unknown, but finite) over a single sample period. More importantly, the reported “data” do not reflect data taken at the location reported – just as surface temperature data (aside from satellite measured) are never actual measurements, only interpolated values.
I therefore doubt the validity of any trend analysis purporting to show a 0.02 C per century change in a 722 million cubic kilometer water volume using data smashing techniques which serve mainly to delete as much information as possible.
I read some background on him a while ago. He has experience with preachers (I think his father or maybe grandfather was one), and he acts like one as a result.
The actual content may not be millenarian Christianity, but the delivery is the same. H*llfire and d*mnation is second nature, as well as ranting.
Must have been his grandfather. His father was a US senator who got rich off oil investments…and probably the usual graft.
Al Gore failed out of Divinity school.