The Absurd Report

Global Warming: Computer models used by environmentalists predict imminent and disastrous climate change. But actual temperature measurements by high-tech equipment show something completely different.

An early scene in the sci-fi disaster flick “The Day After Tomorrow,” showing what allegedly will happen to the planet if we continue to ignore Al Gore’s warnings on global warming, shows three of the film’s secondary characters at some kind of scientific station in Scotland. They’re watching as automated data buoys in the Atlantic Ocean report sudden drops in water temperature resulting from melting Arctic ice stopping the Gulf Stream, which warms the Northern Hemisphere.

“I don’t understand what’s supposed to be going on,” says one of the three, an oceanographer.

Apparently neither do the film’s creators, Al Gore or any of his climate-change cultists. For actual measurements of actual oceans by actual instruments have thrown cold water on the theory that such a scenario could ever occur or is in fact occurring now.

As Lorne Gunter reported Monday in Canada’s National Post, the first of 3,000 new automated ocean buoys were deployed in 2003. They amounted to a significant improvement over earlier buoys that took their measurements mostly at the ocean’s surface.

The new buoys, known as Argos, drift along the oceans at a depth of about 6,000 feet constantly monitoring the temperature, salinity and speed of ocean currents. Every 10 days or so a bladder inflates, bringing to the surface readings taken at various depths. Once on the surface, they transmit their readings to satellites that retransmit them to land-based computers.

The Argos buoys have disappointed the global warm-mongers in that they have failed to detect any signs of imminent climate change.