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BLOGASSAULT on Friday, April 16, 2010 6:48:27 PM
Kevin Trenberth and John Fasullo, climate scientists at the
National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, say that only about half of the heat believed to have built up in the Earth in recent years can be accounted for. New instruments are needed to locate and monitor this missing heat, they say, which could be storing up trouble for the future.
"The heat will come back to haunt us sooner or later," Trenberth said. "The reprieve we've had from warming temperatures in the last few years will not continue. It is critical to track the build-up of energy in our climate system so we can understand what is happening and predict our future climate."
Maybe if we gave them more money they could find out were that extra heat is, you think? But what if they extra heat they can't find never turns up? Then what? Well, obviously, they will need more money to fiqure out why!