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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.
"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. "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.
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.
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