Ocean Warming Data Confirm Climate Models - Wash. Times (?!?)

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Boulder, CO, Jun. 6 (UPI) -- Clear evidence of human-produced warming in the oceans verifies some of the most important predictions of climate models, suggesting it is time for action instead of argument about the existence of greenhouse warming, according to a paper by Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists.

A paper appearing in the June 3 issue of the journal Science by Tim Barnett, a marine physicist at Scripps, and colleagues reported that a strong warming signal has penetrated the world's oceans over the last 40 years that cannot be explained by natural internal climate variability or by solar or volcanic forcings -- but is consistent with human causes. "The thing that is nice about our deal is that we found that most of the heat increase has gone into the oceans, and the oceans are the flywheel of the global climate system," Barnett told UPI's Climate. "We looked at where the biggest signal was. If your models are going to be any good, you'd like to get that one right -- and they sure did."

Barnett's group found a close agreement between observed warming signals in the oceans and the predictions of two prominent climate models: one called the Parallel Climate Model used by the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and one used by Britain's Hadley Centre in Exeter.

The results indicate the climate models can be trusted for any important predictions."

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And then this, from the tail end of the column itself:

Dan Whipple is a veteran environmental reporter. UPI Science News will be discontinuing this column in two weeks. E-mail: [e-mail]

I guess we can't have any of that so-called "science" disrupting the Moonie Times, now can we? :eyes:

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050606-111933-8954r.htm

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1. And The White House Will Continue To Deny The Problem.....

...of global warming