New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hold In Global Warming Alarmism
By JAMES TAYLOR
Jul. 27 2011
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
http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/8/1603/pdf . 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.
The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost
to space during and after warming than the climate models show,
Spencer said in a July 26 University of Alabama press release
http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/new-paper-on-the-misdi\
agnosis-of-surface-temperature-feedbacks-from-variations-in-earth%E2%80%\
99s-radiant-energy-balance-by-spencer-and-braswell-2011/ . There
is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is
especially big over the oceans.
In addition to finding that far less heat is being trapped than alarmist
computer models have predicted, the NASA satellite data show the
atmosphere begins shedding heat into space long before United Nations
computer models predicted.
The new findings are extremely important and should dramatically alter
the global warming debate.
Scientists on all sides of the global warming debate are in general
agreement about how much heat is being directly trapped by human
emissions of carbon dioxide (the answer is not much). However,
the single most important issue in the global warming debate is whether
carbon dioxide emissions will indirectly trap far more heat by causing
large increases in atmospheric humidity and cirrus clouds. Alarmist
computer models assume human carbon dioxide emissions indirectly cause
substantial increases in atmospheric humidity and cirrus clouds (each of
which are very effective at trapping heat), but real-world data have
long shown that carbon dioxide emissions are not causing as much
atmospheric humidity and cirrus clouds as the alarmist computer models
have predicted.
The new NASA Terra satellite data are consistent with long-term NOAA and
NASA data indicating atmospheric humidity and cirrus clouds are not
increasing in the manner predicted by alarmist computer models. The
Terra satellite data also support data collected by NASA's ERBS
satellite showing far more longwave radiation (and thus, heat) escaped
into space between 1985 and 1999 than alarmist computer models had
predicted
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/30/lindzen-on-negative-climate-feedb\
ack/ . Together, the NASA ERBS and Terra satellite data show that for
25 years and counting, carbon dioxide emissions have directly and
indirectly trapped far less heat than alarmist computer models have
predicted.
In short, the central premise of alarmist global warming theory is that
carbon dioxide emissions should be directly and indirectly trapping a
certain amount of heat in the earth's atmosphere and preventing it
from escaping into space. Real-world measurements, however, show far
less heat is being trapped in the earth's atmosphere than the
alarmist computer models predict, and far more heat is escaping into
space than the alarmist computer models predict.
When objective NASA satellite data, reported in a peer-reviewed
scientific journal, show a huge discrepancy between alarmist
climate models and real-world facts, climate scientists, the media and
our elected officials would be wise to take notice. Whether or not they
do so will tell us a great deal about how honest the purveyors of global
warming alarmism truly are.
James M. Taylor is senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland
Institute http://heartland.org/ and managing editor of Environment
Climate News
http://www.heartland.org/environmentandclimate-news.org/index.html .
