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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.

James M. Taylor is senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and
managing editor of Environment & Climate News.
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Kill da wabbit! 5 days
ago

A few things:

1. I remember back
in the 1970's and early 80's when these same climatologists were running
around like Chicken Little. Only THEN it was man made Global Cooling that
was the issue. We're heading into a NEW Ice Age if we don't do SOMETHING! It
didn't catch on. So it was dropped, no new government grants for further
ahem...'study'.

2. You're going to tell me these guys can predict
with accuracy what the weather will be like in 20, 50 or 100 years but my
local weatherman can't tell me if it WILL rain in the 5 day forecast?
Please. For a couple of decades we had a local meteorologist, retired now,
who REFUSED to do more than a 3 day outlook. Why? Because any further than
that was PURE GUESS WORK, his words.

3. I just love how they use the
flooding of Venice as PROOF of rising ocean levels because of glacial melt.
It couldn't have anything to do with the fact it was built in a swamp, as a
defensive measure, on posts driven into the mud and the weight of the city
is making it sink. It's called subsidence people. Strange how rising sea
level's are affecting only one port city in the Med..

4. Now that
they got busted, they want to go from calling it 'Global Warming' to
'Climate Change.' You can't have it. Ofcourse the climate changes, the
Earth's weather, the Earth itself, is a dynamic system! You can't accurately
model a dynamic system, there are too many variables. Anyone of us can go
see numerous land locked or dive to see sunken port city's of antiquity. The
silting up of harbors, subsidence, upthrust and yes the falling and rising
ocean levels ALL occurred PRIOR to the Industrial Revolution and are ALL
natural.

The Emperor has no clothes on.

AusMale 2 days ago

ExxonMobil strikes
again.................DUH

Greg 3 days ago

I get a kick out of all you people who
put all your trust in those vaunted 'climate change scientists' as if it's a
foregone conclusion that they are morally pure. I got news for you -
scientists are people just like the rest of us who may have ulterior motives
of preserving their jobs by perpetuating their pet theories as long as the
gravy train keeps running. I guess the saying "There's a sucker born every
minute" needs a slight updating. Make that "There's a sucker indoctrinated
every minute", and it's probably more accurate.

Brian 5 days ago

meanwhile Al Gore continues to
perpetuate his global warming fraud to make himself rich!

Phil 4 days ago

Sounds like a child wrote that
article... I guess repeating the same statement 15 times can persuade most
Americans to believe
anything

Blah 5 days ago

he Real Scientists, with scientific and
repeatable data to back their statements beat him to the #$%$ punch a long
time ago. Al's so-called scientists have produced no such data and, in fact,
refuse to produce theirs for examination.He is getting angry as he and his
naysayers are being called frauds and extortionists. Their taxpayer funding
will soon be drying up as more people realize that his ramblings are nothing
but "snake-oil"
salesmanship.

Tom M 4 days ago

The many, many, many observable proofs
that humans have destabilized the planet's climate by burning their filthy
fossil fuels blow a hole in the propaganda piece above by Taylor, who
"works" for the Heartland Institute, a right-wing propaganda mill that
pushes a corporate-driven, fascism-light agenda. Taylor loses badly on this
one.

Rich 4 days ago

This article is laughable. The
conclusions drawn by the author illustrate scientific illiteracy.
If you
care about the truth you will disregard this hatchet piece and examine how
actual scientists interpret this data.
James Taylor, you obviously have
expertise in this area, have you also no integrity?

Rodriguez 6 days
ago

Global warming is real. And, the only
cure for it is a global socialist world order; preferably with Barack Obama
as the King of this new world order.

...or, at least that's what they
tell me on TV...

IrishMC 5 days ago

So the "proven science" is no longer
proven?? Can we hold off on the carbon tax...oh wait, we've already spent
that money

Arbutus Dave about a week
ago

Data through the eons indicate a couple
of interesting things about climate:
1) It changes.
2) Warm good, cold
bad.

Pat Patterson about a week
ago

Mein alarm ist kaput!

Eric 5 days ago

O.k., I'll skip the alarmist models and
use the consensus ones. Guess what? We're still screwed.

Tanin about a week ago

How do I report misleading propaganda
written by climate change skeptics citing work by climate change skeptics
made to look like news on
Yahoo?

Silver Hammer 2 weeks
ago

If the sun changes it's output by more
than +/-5%, we are all dead.

Andy about a week ago

So now NASA is bad for blowing the crap
out of the global warming hoax. When they used to print articles that NASA
supported this claim it was front page news. People you were duped so why
don't you just admit it and move on to your next endeavor.

Ugly Truth 2 weeks
ago

I'm alarmingly alarmed that these
alarmist alarms could alarmingly be so alarmingly wrong in such an
alarmingly wrong alarmist fashion. Alarmed, I tell you! Alarmed! Gotta go
set my alarm clock so I'm not alarmingly late for work in the alarming
morning or my boss will be alarmed.

AaronA 2 weeks ago

I counted 13 "alarmist". Did I miss
one?

mike about a week ago

Global warming is not so much a
scientific phenomenon as a continuing and very destructive political
phenomenon. The concept of man-caused global warming is #$%$ pure and
unadulterated. A volcano can explode anywhere in the world and put probably
ten times the carbon dioxide and pollutants into the planet's air as man
does in a decade. You know what the real dead giveaway is about this bogus
theory? Mikhail Gorbachev (that's right, good ol' Gorby) started pushing the
theory back in the '90's as a way to keep the dead hand of Socialism on the
necks of humanity. Look it up. He's big on this crap. Is he a scientist? No,
just a retired dictator with an ax to grind. He saw then that the Left could
use this theory to cripple Western industrialized nations because of their
increasingly uneducated populations and the politicization of science in
those nations. Give him credit. He's right close to success. His only
problem is, real scientists are fighting back with facts, and facts still
resonate with a majority of the American people, who appreciate electric
light instead of candles and cars instead of bicycles and buses. For most
Americans, the 12th Century was long ago, not just around the corner
again.

Tanin about a week ago

It's a paper written by a couple of
climate skeptics from Alabama that manage the radiometer on the Terra
satellite. The radiometer measures light reflected from the Earth. Their
readings show that more heat is reflecting from the Earth. Their conclusion
is so off it's embarrassing. They conclude that since the Earth is emanating
ever more heat, this must mean that global warming is not happening. That's
like saying "My oven is emanating more heat, therefore it's not getting
hotter."

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