Baltimore Weather Examiner: Oceans are cooling according to NASA

Two separate studies through NASA confirm that since 2003, the world's oceans have been losing heat. In the peak of the recent warming trend, 1998 actually ranked 2nd to 1934 as the warmest year on record.

More claptrap from Nicholas Stern: Time for a green industrial revolution - 21 January 2009 - New "Scientist"

Since my colleagues and I published the Stern Review on the economics of climate change in 2006, it has become apparent that the risks and potential costs are even greater than we originally recognised. Global emissions of greenhouse gases are growing more quickly than projected, the ability of the planet to absorb those gases now appears lower than was assumed, the potential increases in temperatures due to rising gas concentrations seem higher, and the physical impacts of a warming planet are appearing at a faster rate than expected.

Climate Research News » Hockey Team Plays in Antarctica

Nothing to do with President Obama’s first full day in office, I’m sure, but it just happens to coincide with a new paper in the journal Nature entitled, ‘Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year,’ by Eric J. Steig, David P. Schneider, Scott D. Rutherford, Michael E. Mann, Josefino C. Comiso & Drew T. Shindell.

Some names to conjure with there, including Rutherford and Mann who are part of the ‘Hockey Team’ involved in the infamous ‘Hockey Stick’ graph saga. So who better to call on when much of Antarctica isn’t playing ball with global warming. But wait! There is more fun to be had here - Real Climate, which includes Michael Mann, have previously said, “A cold Antarctica and Southern Ocean do not contradict our models of global warming.” You just can’t lose when playing the ‘consistent with climate models’ game can you!? Presumably, the findings of this new paper don’t contradict climate models either.