Argos monitoring systems must be burned at the stake

Damned little heretical machines just aren't lying like humans want them to:

They drift along in the worlds' oceans at a depth of 2,000 metres -- more than a mile down -- constantly monitoring the temperature, salinity, pressure and velocity of the upper oceans.

Then, about once every 10 days, a bladder on the outside of these buoys inflates and raises them slowly to the surface, gathering data about each strata of seawater they pass through.

These 3,000 yellow sentinels -- about the size and shape of a large fencepost -- free-float the world's oceans, season in and season out, surfacing between 30 and 40 times a year, disgorging their findings, then submerging again for another fact-finding voyage.

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When they were first deployed in 2003, the Argos were hailed for their ability to collect information on ocean conditions more precisely, at more places and greater depths and in more conditions than ever before.

No longer would scientists have to rely on measurements mostly at the surface from older scientific buoys or inconsistent shipboard monitors.

So why are some scientists now beginning to question the buoys' findings? Because in five years the little blighters have failed to detect any global warming. They are not reinforcing the scientific orthodoxy of the day, namely that man is causing the planet to warm dangerously. They are not proving the predetermined conclusions of their human masters. Therefore they, and not their masters' hypotheses, must be wrong.

Facts are an itch-bay aren't they?

Via Mike at Cold Fury who opines:

It’s all bullsh*t of the rankest sort, of course. But what else could anyone expect from shameless liars of Al Gore’s ilk?

Hmm... sound familiar?

Comments

[Bill Smith]

Amazing, isn't it, how 3,000 of these things could all malfunction in the very same way.

[richard mcenroe]

This is just more proof of the awesome dark power of Dick Cheney and Halliburton!

"These aren't the submarine drones you're looking for..."