The last paragraph is the most informative of the whole article... Just a short term cycle, or something more.... Only opportunistic greenie politicians and some journalists looking to make their names and a few quick bucks will have a definite and doubt-free position on this.
The understanding of the science of climate modeilling is still to immature to make very sensible long-term predictions...
But just about right for political grand-standing, screaming newspaper headlines and as a new, big-picture cause for greenies and paleo-lefties to desperately grasp onto to somehow feel they have some relevence...
Easy to scare housewives and school children to get them to participate in save the world marches/demonstrations etc
" Rintoul said the Argos would provide a huge boost to climate research.
"They will revolutionise how we understand the ocean, in particular to determining climate change and shorter climate cycles," he said.
"One of the real challenges for us when we try to answer the question of 'is this climate change?' is that we only have measurements from a few southern snapshots," he said.
"We haven't measured it continuously in time so it's hard for us to tell the difference between a cycle, something moving up and down, and a long-term trend. That's the real challenge."
