Earth Sky Stars » sea level rise http://earthskystars.net/blog blog for earthskystars Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:35:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The oceans are warming, not cooling — a climate skeptic myth dispelled … http://earthskystars.net/blog/2009/01/18/the-oceans-are-warming-not-cooling-a-climate-skeptic-myth-dispelled/ http://earthskystars.net/blog/2009/01/18/the-oceans-are-warming-not-cooling-a-climate-skeptic-myth-dispelled/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:48:13 +0000 Bill Clugston http://earthskystars.net/blog/?p=99 A study published in 2006 by John Lyman at Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and Josh Willis of NASA reported a surprising finding, the world’s oceans were cooling rather than warming as would be expected with global climate change. This report was immediately hailed by climate change skeptics as proof that global warming was a myth, just a normal aberration in the earth’s climate cycle. Unfortunately, for the skeptics, it wasn’t true.

Josh started to see disturbing errors in his data, and like all scientific data, his data was subject to review and correction. Josh found the largest problem in his data came from a robot floating sensor called Argo. A chunk of the temperature data was from Argos with defective temperature sensors. With the defective readingswarming removed from the data the cooling almost disappeared. A second piece of sensor data, readings from a expendable thermometer called a XBT, made the early readings of ocean temperature appear to warm. Read the full tale of Josh Willis’ scientific sleuthing at the NASA Earth Observatory.

Sorry skeptics, better luck next time!

Bill Clugston, a Climate Change believer

]]> http://earthskystars.net/blog/2009/01/18/the-oceans-are-warming-not-cooling-a-climate-skeptic-myth-dispelled/feed/ 0 How The Netherlands is dealing with Climate Change http://earthskystars.net/blog/2008/12/28/how-the-netherlands-is-dealing-with-climate-change/ http://earthskystars.net/blog/2008/12/28/how-the-netherlands-is-dealing-with-climate-change/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:30:14 +0000 Bill Clugston http://earthskystars.net/blog/?p=70 Global Climate Change has many potential hazards. One of the more likely hazards is a planet-wide rise in sea level. Rising sea levels make already low-lying coastal regions (Bangladesh, Netherlands, New Orleans, to name a few) more vulnerable to flooding from storms.

The Netherlands (Holland) is dealing with Climate Change on several fronts. To deal with Global Warming, Holland has a massive wind power program to reduce the production of greenhouse gases. To deal with the rising ocean (24% of the country is below sea level), the Dutch have instituted a massive public works program. An excellent Wired.com article details how the Dutch, masters of dealing with flooding and storm, are coping with Climate Change.

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