Interesting that the global warming crowd has told us — with absolute certainty — that the science of global climate change “is settled” and that the 1990′s were (did you hear me? I said they WERE!!!!!!!) the hottest years on record (1934 and 1921 mean nothing).
The claim regularly goes out that our science allows us to know the potential changes in the so-called average temperature for the planet, down to a tenth of a degree, and a century into the future.
However, this new discovery intrigues me enough to question how we could have “known” all of these things for years when we only just proved that major ocean currents in the southern oceans are connected.
A DEEP sea current flowing past Sydney has been found to be part of a long-sought “missing link” thought to connect all the world’s southern oceans.
CSIRO scientists who discovered the current say it plays a crucial role in controlling not only the world’s temperature but the food supply for marine life around the globe. …
Ken Ridgway, a scientist with the CSIRO Ocean Flagships research program, said yesterday that because the current travelled at great depths its temperature and salinity, as well as the nutrients swept along with the flow, changed little.
As a result it played an important role in stabilising the world’s temperatures, and ensuring the survival of sea life. Monitoring changes in such a stable system should provide pointers to global climate change.
