Study Reconciles Data in Measuring Climate Change

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 3, 2006; Page A03

A government study released yesterday undermines one of the key arguments of
climate change skeptics, concluding there is no statistically significant
conflict between measures of global warming on the earth's surface and in
the atmosphere.

For years some global warming critics had pointed to the fact that satellite
measurements had recorded very little warming in the lower atmosphere, while
surface temperature readings indicated that the earth is heating up. Now the
U.S. Climate Change Science Program, an interagency body, has concluded the
two data sets match...

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