In the blog below I mentioned two questions I had about global climate. One concerned the data from satellite measurements and the other concerned ARGO (ocean buoy measurements).
My blog below includes the satellite data which shows clearly that we had a global surface temperature decline during the period that NOAA, Hansen and other researchers present data for a global surface temperature rise.
Now I find in the recent blog of the same scientist, Anthony Watts, that the data from ARGO has been published and analyized. ARGO measures the active 3,000 buoys out of 5,000 floating in the entire world's oceans that sink and bob to make countless measurements and then transmit them to a satellite collection system.
The issue from ARGO global ocean measurement deals with simple physics. If the global atmosphere is warming then the surface of the oceans (top few thousand feet) must be absorbing some heat in order to keep the air on the surface warmer.
No chart is needed on this one. Measuring the amount of heat in the top of the ocean over the most recent six years (ocean temperature doesn't change very fast or easily) the data shows that ocean heat declined not increased. The global atmosphere can not be in a long term warming phase if the ocean is losing heat.
It is time for James Hansen, Al Gore, the UN's IPCC and the global media to do the honorable thing: commit seppuku.