New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hold In Global Warming Alarmism;
NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.
Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite, reports that real-world data from NASA’s Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.
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The new findings are extremely important and should dramatically alter the global warming debate.
Or they could, if the purpose of the debate were actually science, and not wealth transfer.
“Or they could, if the purpose of the debate were actually science, and not wealth transfer.”
Precisely. Indeed the study “should” alter the global warming debate. Trouble is, pretty much every finding that counters the AGW myth, but specifically those that knock the CO2 foregone conclusion of doom and disaster, is actively suppressed and ignored lest it derail the public gravy train.
The Alarmists should be called Climate Liars. Real science has proven the global warming religion is one huge scam. The Climate Liars can’t rely on the facts because the facts prove them wrong so they resort to lying. Lying is their business; it puts money in their pockets and food on their table. Without the lies these people would be unemployed.
No, no, no, no. The science is settled. The science is settled! THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!!
That is all. Now, stop trying to confuse me with facts.
The liars house of cards is crumbling but too slow for my liking. Will this new information make the CBC National? I doubt it.
I am afraid that the points that Mark and Owen make will prevail.
Even Alykhan Velshi, who is a supporter of the oil sands and who was the communications director for Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and now runs EthicalOil.org, a blog set to relaunch on Thursday, still talks about “Climate change is one of the biggest challenges mankind faces,”.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ex-tory-message-maven-tailors-his-spin-to-oil-sands/article2112313/
The lack of evidence that there likely is no such thing as a supreme being watching over us all is not changing many of the minds of those believers either.
Don’t hold your breath … a believer is a believer is a believer.
Rational, inquiring minds are always skeptical.
It’s all part of the insanity that is human civilization and that’s what makes it interesting … I guess.
And, don’t forget, this most certainly means the oil companies now have a grip on NASA. 🙂 /sarc
It’s still gauche among public figures, lobyists, etc to not publicy be 100% onboard with the “climate change” or whatever they’re calling it now scam. To win we must get to the point where openly questioning the “climate change” theory is acceptable. Not sure how to do that.
I wonder when British Columbia will withdraw its asinine carbon tax…waiting …waiting ….waiting…
Oh yes, I forgot, carbon taxes have become just another way for governments to suck yet more money from tax payers.
Most people also thought the Berlin Wall would never fall. Well, it did – practically overnight and without any resistance from the ‘our socialist way is better crowd’.
In 1989 they begrudgingly realized the cause was lost and so moved on to the mother of all socialistic schemes – climate alarmism.
I predict this (bowel)movement will fall quicker and harder because their case is so fraudulent – as kate’s link here demonstrates.
Lets not forget that this data is already -downplayed- because lots of Big Kahunas at NASA have a vested interest in Global Warming, and they have a lot of control over who says what. Their damage control efforts are already rolled in to this release.
Therefore the actual -science- is probably a lot worse than even this paper makes it seem.
The link to the study is down, error 504 timeout, and mysteriously it’s not in google’s cache yet.
KevinB nails it.
Don’t tell me the width of tree rings ( speed of tree growth ) has anything to do with anything other than temperature – what, are you stupid? Yeah, your lawn, the tomatoes in your garden , and rosebushes all grow faster when you feed them and water them, but not trees. Trees are different, their rate of growth is determined strictly by the temperature outside: everyone knows that the word tree is short for their real name, treemometer, after all! Next thing you wingnuts will be telling the world is that their are no trees in the Sahara desert!
There are l
lots of them there! (sarc)
// max
The link to the study is down, error 504 timeout, and mysteriously it’s not in google’s cache yet. //
Right. From SDA to yahoo [Taylor of Heartland] to pielke to the PDF which doesn’t load.
mdpi are an open access platform. The whole site is timing out.
Keepclicking.
Just Put the Model Down, Roy
Mainly about Specer’s methodology –
// Supposing Spencer does try to go back and quantify parameter sensitivity, then good luck with that, because his newer models all have MORE THAN 30 FULLY ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS (alpha, beta, and diffusion coefficients for heat transfer between layers). After Tim Lambert over at Deltoid read my review of Spencer’s book, he posted a quotation from the famous mathematician, John von Neumann.
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. //
But, but, CBC has deemed both the BOEMRE polar bear farce and NASA’s report on flawed computer models not fit to print. Now that we’re aware of the $12.5 billion the BBC pension fund has sunk in climate change investments, this whole AGW scam just keeps getting hotter and hotter. What will tomorrow’s news bring – CBC invests pension funds in CanWEA members’ companies and green industry?
Well, it is encouraging to see the term “alarmists” used repeatedly in a news article on a supposedly mainstream Web site like Yahoo. I realize the author is from the Heartland Institute, which is very much a climate realist organization, but the fact that Yahoo lets the article stand on its own merits is encouraging. Means it will get read by some people who would never otherwise encounter it.
Amazing what happens when real scientists with access to real technology get a chance to look into things for themselves.
Al Gore should be on the endagered species list.
So far as I can tell, the exposure of this fraud has not fazed Obama or the UN one bit. Obama’s EPA is preparing ultimatums/regulations on all fossil fuel electric utilities, which will double US uyility bills. Once the EPA has saddled the US with this, the next logical step will be a push by the Democrats for a high US tariff on goods from all countries who refuse to do the same, as a way to ” level ” the playing field. Unfortunately, the AGW scam will not be dead until the voters kick the Democrats out of office.
Or they could, if the purpose of the debate were actually science, and not wealth transfer.
You got that right. Money trumps truth every time.
NASA has satellites? I thought their primary objective was Muslim outreach.
From the article itself:
“From a modeling standpoint, this lack of progress is evidence of the complexity of the myriad
atmospheric processes that combine to determine the sign and magnitude of feedbacks. It is also due to
our inability to quantify feedbacks in the real climate system, a contentious issue with a wide range of
published feedback diagnoses [1] and disagreements over the ability of existing methods to diagnose
feedback [3,4].”
So much for “settled science”
I’ve read the paper. I won’t pretend to understand some of the minutiae, but it seems to reinforce a previous discussion/paper pointing out the incredibly robust heat dissipating effects of water vapor, clouds and especially thunderstorms and rainstorms. It explains why the temperature of Singapore, 4 deg off the equator and surrounded by water, stays within a range between 24C and 33C.
It also seems to point out the impossibility of teasing out confounders in assessing radiative and non-radiative feedbacks as well as the IPCC’s models’ hugely under-estimating the heat dissipating capacity of the atmosphere.
I’d love to get the comments of a physicist on the article.
Speaking of gaping holes, whatever happened to the ozone hole? I haven’t heard about it in more than ten years. We were supposed to have been fried by now.
Or did switching from styrofoam to paper cups solve that problem.
Re. the ozone hole, I think it caused a bunch of cancer, or was it heart attacks, and then it moved on. CO2 is now the culprit.
Global Warming ate my homework
Ian Plimer wrote in his book Heaven and Earth that the hole in the ozone layer over the south pole was a natural occurring one due to the unique circular polar winds and extreme cold. Over time high altitude winds would return the hole to normal, which of course is what happened so the panic-driven media lost interest.
Darn fine book, too.