Bloomberg reports:
“We don’t really know yet what the explanation is for the slowdown,” said Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. “The most favored explanation at the moment is that more of the heat absorbed by the oceans is being sucked down into deeper waters than before.”
We don’t even know what we don’t know.
But that never stops the continued attack on prosperity by the rent seekers.
“We don’t really know yet what the explanation is for the slowdown”
Of course they know. They are scrambling to find a plausible excuse, so they can KEEP THEIR JOBS.
“more of the heat absorbed by the oceans is being sucked down into deeper waters than before.”
So, warm water sinking, fire and brimstone coming down from the sky, rivers and seas boiling, forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, the dead rising from the grave, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
There is a strong possibility that the long-standing scientific consensus with regards to the laws of hydrodynamics has been wrong or at least incomplete. Global Warming consensus, however, is stronger than ever.