I thought this NPR Report mentioned on Glenn Beck's radio show was kind of amusing. Apparently, scientists are puzzled at data from a network of about 3,000 robots that measure the ocean's temperature. In looking at data since the network went online in 2003, they've found no evidence of warming and in fact, temperatures have dipped slightly.

In fact, 80 percent to 90 percent of global warming involves heating up ocean waters. They hold much more heat than the atmosphere can. So Willis has been studying the ocean with a fleet of robotic instruments called the Argo system. The buoys can dive 3,000 feet down and measure ocean temperature. Since the system was fully deployed in 2003, it has recorded no warming of the global oceans.

"There has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant," Willis says. So the buildup of heat on Earth may be on a brief hiatus. "Global warming doesn't mean every year will be warmer than the last. And it may be that we are in a period of less rapid warming."

This last statement really cracked me up. Ummmmm.... you can't get "less rapid warming" than when things are cooling. I guess I have a different understanding of the term "warming" than Dr. Willis. I was always taught that "warming" means temperatures are rising.

Their explanation for this cooling of the oceans is either that Global Warming is "taking a breather" or that things are really warming, but "scientists are somehow misinterpreting the data." I might suggest another theory. Perhaps the science of global climate change isn't so settled as Al Gore and others seem to believe.