Here is a press release on a study that shatters climate alarmists assumptions via National Review Online:
“The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost to space during and after warming than the climate models show,” Spencer said. “There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans.”
Not only does the atmosphere release more energy than previously thought, it starts releasing it earlier in a warming cycle. The models forecast that the climate should continue to absorb solar energy until a warming event peaks.
Instead, the satellite data shows the climate system starting to shed energy more than three months before the typical warming event reaches its peak.
“At the peak, satellites show energy being lost while climate models show energy still being gained,” Spencer said.
This is the first time scientists have looked at radiative balances during the months before and after these transient temperature peaks.
Applied to long-term climate change, the research might indicate that the climate is less sensitive to warming due to increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere than climate modelers have theorized. A major underpinning of global warming theory is that the slight warming caused by enhanced greenhouse gases should change cloud cover in ways that cause additional warming, which would be a positive feedback cycle.
Instead, the natural ebb and flow of clouds, solar radiation, heat rising from the oceans and a myriad of other factors added to the different time lags in which they impact the atmosphere might make it impossible to isolate or accurately identify which piece of Earth’s changing climate is feedback from manmade greenhouse gases.
“There are simply too many variables to reliably gauge the right number for that,” Spencer said.
Here is a video of Dr. Roy Spencer on with Lou Dobbs.
Then Mario said,
Skeptics have long been able to point to inconvenient facts that cast doubt on the climate alarmists’ consensus — for example, the fact that temperatures have apparently risen much less slowly in the last 20 years than in the 20 before that, although everyone agrees there is more CO2 in the atmosphere now then there was then. But this is virtually the first time that central assumptions and predictions of the models used by the International Panel on Climate Change — the basis of climate policy and treaty negotiations around the world — has been flatly refuted by hard evidence. To repair to Karl Popper, the precise theory of the climate alarmists has been falsified by factual data — and must now be modified or abandoned, which is what happens to most theories. The “chaos theory” trend of 20 years ago was right after all — we don’t know everything, in particular where the climate is concerned. The planet may be warming — but there are far too many potential causes for us to really understand what is happening, or to predict what will happen in coming decades. Much more will doubtless be written about this — and heard, in congressional testimony — as folks start to realize just how deeply these new data undermine the claims of the climate alarmists.
But this is hopefully the beginning of the end of the Democrats’ demented fascination with imposing devastating burdens on the American economy in the service of a “scientific” consensus that is now facing death by a thousand inconvenient truths.
The last sentence is spot on! We can only hope that this occurs but I doubt that the progressives will go down quietly.
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The "global warming hoax" is simply a tool used by many on the left to advance their agenda. That said, many believe it to be a fact!
global warming seems to be many things.
ditto the other comments
and add to them....global warming - a kind of religion for the faithless.
Global warming alarmists have been useful idiots for the left for years. Al Gore is one of the biggest useful idiot out there. They don't care about facts, they only act on emotion.
Yep, that is why they started calling it climate change. That can mean anything they want it to mean.
Thank you for doing this post. I've had this NASA study on my list things I wanted to write on and something else keeps taking priority. This study should put the global warming issue to bed for good; but the envirterrorist will just ignore it I am afraid.
"Global Warming" is nothing more that the Green Wing of the Communist Party. Our MSM and Liberal politicians will carry on as though this were never reported. Meanwhile, we will lose one of the greatest inventions known to man to this stupidity ... The Light Bulb!
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