Analysis of NASA Satellite Data Suggests UN Climate Models are Full of Hot Air
**Written by Doug Powers
Stand down, Green Helmets!
From Forbes by way of Yahoo News:
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.
So maybe we won’t have to spend $76 trillion to “green” the world?
From the report (PDF):
Yet, as seen in Figure 2, we are still faced with a rather large discrepancy in the time-lagged regression coefficients between the radiative signatures displayed by the real climate system in satellite data versus the climate models.
In all fairness, I wouldn’t expect computer models to be spot-on simulations of the real climate system, but in honest research I would expect computer models to, at least once in a while, not always coincidentally err on the side of the equation that just happens to make Al Gore richer and serve as “evidence” that the UN should be further funded to police the impending catastrophe.
Computer models of possible hurricane trajectories usually contain an array of possibilities based on a number of variables, but if the UN’s climates models were used, Hurricane Global Warming would always be poised for a direct hit on wherever the most wealth can be transferred.
And in related “Al Gore hardest hit” news…
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated for scientific misconduct, possibly over the veracity of that article.
Charles Monnett, an Anchorage-based scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, or BOEMRE, was told July 18 that he was being put on leave, pending results of an investigation into “integrity issues.” But he has not yet been informed by the inspector general’s office of specific charges or questions related to the scientific integrity of his work, said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
On Thursday, Ruch’s watchdog group plans to file a complaint with the agency on Monnett’s behalf, asserting that Obama administration officials have “actively persecuted” him in violation of policy intended to protect scientists from political interference.
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The article and presentations drew national attention and helped make the polar bear something of a poster child for the global warming movement. Al Gore’s mention of the polar bear in his documentary on climate change, “An Inconvenient Truth,” came up during investigators’ questioning of Gleason in January.
On September 14th, Al Gore wants us to connect the dots, but we don’t really need to wait until then.
**Written by Doug Powers
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I’m sure The Pretender in Chief’s Ministry of Propoganda will make note to ignore any findings that get in the way of the leftist narrative.
I’m sure Ed Schultz will set us all straight on this tonight on MessNBC.
There is no hotter air anywhere.
This and the skewed Polar Bear mass die off/drowning etc propoganda.
Three in a week … all proving global warming is a huge lie.
How many are one bit shocked at this? If lies weren’t coming out on this gw mess, we wouldn’t have a mess at all! The bottom line, follow the billions of money given for this lie.
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But Al told us the science was settled. WTF?
Between this and the skinny kids epidemic, my whole universe is being turned upside down. Now I don’t know what to believe.
But this may make the GW idiots change their tunes to claim that the earth is going into another ice age and people in Africa will need parkas and mukluks.
Until quite recently the “science was settled” that the Earth owed its thick atmosphere to the protective barrier of our magnetic field. Now the current belief is that the field actually causes a net atmospheric loss. Just like rain forests turned out to be a net “greenhouse gas” gain.
Making predictions is always something of a risk, but when predictions are made based on offering a path to additional power to the world’s governments in exchange for increasing funding, bad science is always the result.
And these fact help support what has been known for a long time –
Algore has all the hot air!
What a con artist. Get a job dufus.
Question: who gets/got the $’s received for carbon credits that have been extorted from companies, due to the GLOBAL WARMING LIES cra#? What did “they” do with those big bucks?
Wow, Obama was right. His election is when the sea levels stopped rising.
I’m sure much of it was used to meet and exeed the lifestyle needs of certain important leaders in the cause of global environmental justice.
I liked this comment at hotair:
Indeed, global warming alarmism continues to be derailed. Does anyone actually believe in CAGW anymore?
But, but, but the computer model SAYS the atmosphere traps the greenhouse gases! Somebody tell NASA that their reality check HAS to be wrong…
It doesn’t matter. We have a criminal government and no one will stop them. They are gonna keep stealing your money, get used to it.
This guy was uncovered during the most left-wing administration in history? He must have really screwed the pooch.
One of my favorite sites…Junk Science
It’s funny that we knew in our guts that Global warming was a farce and that the GW supporters were lying. Too bad it took this long to expose the truth. Maybe we would not have had all that cap & trade regulation stuff shoved at us by our stupid politicians.
This is a lot more important than it sounds at first. Since NASA was a knowing co-conspirator in perpetuating this fraud, they are now supplying real data proving that they were wrong. Now if the Scripps Institute and University of East Anglia would follow their example, they may also be on the road to restoring some credibility.
Related: The surface data collection stations are (often) collecting data from the hot air exhaust of air conditioning units.
And we are burning food (re: corn) to “save the planet.” stupid, Stupid, STUPID!!!
Yes, because we so desperately need one! And Lord knows there aren’t enough enviro groups already?
One of the recent mantras coming from The Professional Left has been “anti-science syndrome”. They’ve fallen head over heels in love with it any time we so much as threaten to pull the plug on their faux ‘research’.
So what’s the first thing Prog’s do when their wet dream comes true and the Soft Coup becomes reality..? Shut down NASA.
See, only studies that involve the support of GW are actual ‘science’. Everything else is “supporting the military industrial complex”.
Can I have my light bulbs back – or do I still have to use those Pelosis?
Too bad this report won’t change a thing as Pravda USA will bury it.
“Our Interview with Emily Litella at 11:00!”
To be fair to Al Gore – in his personal experience, everywhere he goes a hot gas seems to follow…
Some people here are missing the point. NASA just confirmed that the amount of heat being produced on earth is not the issue. Whatever is happening on the surface, the planet is efficiently releasing the heat into space.
Oh yeah… Brian Williams will be leading with this story tonight… MSM willful ignorance is at defcon 5… “Nothing to see here, move along…”
Speaking of light bulbs, here is a video that takes these little darling to task! Rand Paul does a great job on this gal!
http://videos2view.net/smackdown.htm
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Phil that’s not lost on me.
The point is ( that’s exactly WHY Prog’s want the program shut down! ) NASA probably has silly stuff like pee tests and dress codes, security clearances and the like!
They just don’t know how to party.
How about a House investigation on NASA, Hanson, Gore and the AGW sham artists?
Did you know that polar bears in the antarctic are extinct now? Gone! Completely!
GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!
And all the penguins in the Arctic are gone too!!!
Oh, the humanity!!!
And the sweet little Artic Fox, gone, poor baby!
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Great! Now Phil just launched the Universe Warming scam of the century.
We MUST decrease the amount of waste heat escaping from the planet and super-heating the universe!”
You really don’t need to give them ideas…
Military bases all over the nation are being forced to go green.
At JBPHH (Joint Base Pearl Harbor – Hickam) solar electric cells are being installed everywhere at a cost of millions. My family tells me that the same thing is happening at Tinker A.F.B. in Oklahoma.
I wonder how much of it is to “save” money over the long run, and how much is it to provide jobs in the local communities. These contracts are worth millions to ‘green’ industry.
CAGW?
Computer Animated Global Warming?
We’ve had great success at our Guard base employing local initiatives just fine thankyouverymuch! Shaved $10k a month of our power bill by having airman shut their AC off when not in the room etc.
Further… beating them to the punch we’re part of a pilot program to generate our own on Base ind. of the grid. But no, we don’t need the Green Gag.
Great. Saves money and doesn’t cost a thing.
If it saves money, great. If it winds up costing more in the long run but ‘saves the planet’ and provides jobs to Union workers so that they can make campaign donations to Barry, then I’m against it.
I am not against frugality. I am against light, smoke, and mirrors. Being green is fine; being Green is political correctness.
I draw the same similarity in someone being a Black American and being a black American.
Great. Saves money and doesn’t cost a thing.
If it saves money, great. If it winds up costing more in the long run but ‘saves the planet’ and provides jobs to Union workers so that they can make campaign donations to Barry, then I’m against it.
I am not against frugality. I am against light, smoke, and mirrors. Being green is fine; being Green is political correctness.
I draw the same similarity in someone being a Black American and being a black American.
Now we know why Obama’s admin wants to cut NASA funding
did anybody seek a comment from newt? we always knew
global warming,climate change, oh my god it’s hot, alarmists were wrong all alongOkay, obviously the satellites are malfunctioning, most likely because of…GLOBAL WARMING!!!
Now we know why Obama’s admin wants to cut NASA funding
Now we know why Obama’s admin wants to cut NASA funding
Okay, obviously the satellites are malfunctioning, most likely because of…GLOBAL WARMING!!!
What does NASA know about climate? They need to stick to their primary purpose in life – to help Muslims feel good about their contributions to science.
Okay, obviously the satellites are malfunctioning, most likely because of…GLOBAL WARMING!!!
Since it disagrees with our President….science is racist.
I fully expect the Obama Administration, along with the E.P.A., to address this new information….
You said it, Southpaw.
I could equalate Albert Gore Jr. to a modern Snake Oil Merchandiser.
Hangfire,
The full details aren’t being made public just yet but from what they can tell us, it’s a very decentralized approach.
Multiple gen’s rather than a Mondo set-up ( w/ an Emerg. backup ) I guess in order to qualify you had to be able to show a certain level of improvement of your own accord?
INSOFAR as the base C.O, e’f ‘Green’, I’m the skipper and I SAID so. There. All the explanation you’ll ever ‘need’?
Global smarming goons are like the priests of Baal: 1 kings 18:25 Now Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”
26 So they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, “O Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice; no one answered. Then they leaped about the altar which they had made.
27 And so it was, at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.” 28 So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their custom, with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. 29 And when midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice. But there was no voice; no one answered, no one paid attention.
LOL they just keep screaming to that groundhog
Sorry, OldGoat, but the reason he wants to cut NASA, is to funnel it’s good works, money, and expertise, to the poor Muslim nations, in a effort to raise their self-esteem. Don’t you remember the NASA Director’s speech from some months ago?
It’s about reinstilling the “pride” of of the Islamic people, whose forefathers were at the top of the list in scientific discoveries, yada yada yada….
…and do so, at the American taxpayers expense.
UN: Dead Agency, dead science. Next!
THAT I understand.
I’m a bit of a stick in the mud, I guess. I get upset when congress orders DoD to go ‘Green.’ I look all around this base and see contractor’s installing solar cells and solar water panels (which are great, by the way; I have on my home. I love hot water!)
At the same time, I am also seeing rotation dates extended (no money for transfers and shipping household goods), downsizing ships AND personnel, deployments being extended, training cuts, etc. due to lack of funding.
It sometimes seems that we are doing the moral equivalent of installing a swimming pool in your backyard while the roof needs new shingles.
This won’t sway the globull warming/climate redistribution zealots. They’ll just claim these reports and actions are all lies and deception.
I’m waiting for a prominent politician to call this nonsense what it is.
A steaming pile of bull.
I’m also waiting for one of them to put American citizens first by calling illegal immigration what it is.
A crime that deserves punishment.
So I could be waiting a while……
not really, at least the snake oil salesman gave you a bottle, you could wash out the bottle and use it for a vase. but algore doesn’t give you anything useful, except a large tax bill. oh, sorry, did i say useful, i meant useless, my bad.
I just joined this thread and haven’t had time to read the posts. I will, though! I love what you guys write!!
My scientific opinion? DUH!
That’s it.
Earthquakes (tectonic shifts) and volcanic eruptions dump more CO2 into the atmosphere than mere humans ever could. So here’s my idea: we take every liberal/progressive and use them to plug the fissures of earthquakes (above ground or below water), and we drop them on earthquakes to prevent the massive CO2 releases. If and until the left figures out how to resolve these two huge CO2 release problems, they just plain need to shut the hell up, because everything progressives say about the subject is an absolute and outright lie. Do we see a pattern here, hmmmm???
That opinion would rate genius compared to Man/Bear/Pig.
I’d just throw out a simple reminder re: methods/techniques/measurement precision/etc
Such a finding is even possible because of the newer generation of space-borne sensing platforms. They had to be developed, tested and most importantly, calibrated accurately. Maybe the data (and climate ‘reality’) has been with us for some time, but the newer techniques and methods developed allowed scientists to capture better the complex reality of global weather/climate patterns (?)
Kudos to the academicians and researchers that dared to think and publish such data. Sometimes the most important voices that need to be heard are the ones that most do not agree with.
While I am not a proponent, generally, of ‘global warming’ theory, conserving resources and making things more efficient does serve the interest of our nation and humankind overall.
At the same time, humans should think seriously of resource consumption vs. carrying capacity/sustainability, and find, and work towards, a long-term sustainable population level. Human population growth, unchecked into the future, will eventually reach a point where catastrophic changes to the natural and economic environments WILL occur.
That puts you WAY AHEAD of Al Gore.
You are Einstein compared to Al Gore’s chimp at the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Attention: Al Gore, UN
Ruh roh. Somebody in the Thugacracy forgot to buy off the NASA nerds.
Expect truckloads of freshly printed greebacks to show up at NASAs’ front door in the next 48 hours.
Retraction to follow…..
so far $100 billion spent on global warming nut job research…just keep being proven wrong…nay, nothing wrong with our givewrnment…nothing but a total “reset” is needed to help.
I think we can all take this up a notch.
We can’t assume that our Congress critters know of this. So how about we make it go viral and bombard them w/ the information followed up with a simple request.
“So Obama, in light of the actual facts, what about those EPA CO2 regulations you forced by fiat? Are you going to change your position or should we impeach you?”
We have already connected the dots and the verdict is: 1) Al Gore has been positioning himself to score financially; 2) Al Gore is full of chutzpah; and, 3) Al Gore is certifiably nuts and ready for a padded room.
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And meanwhile–despite the mounting evidence that Globull “Warming” really is B.S.–Comrade Obama and his Ilk keep destroying our economy with taxpayer subsidies to the corn based ethanol, wind turbine, and solar panel scam energy sources.
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Despite the fact that their energy cost is 2X to 5X the costs of traditional coal fired plants. Which are being shut down to “save” the planet. Despite their meeting current anti-pollution standards.
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Higher energy costs, more lost jobs in the Gulf oil and gas and coal industries. With coming shortages and rolling blackouts. And more demand to recharge the “planet saving” electric cars.
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Keep up the good work, Comrade and Ilk. We’re coming for you in Nov. 2012. When TSUNAMI II hits you–you will never see it coming. You’re giving us “free” energy and more free (aka jobless) time now. And you will be rewarded with lots of new “free” time–aka FUNEMPLOYMENT.
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John Bibb
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Even the chimp is smarter than Al Gore. At least, the chimp would have sense to get in out of the heat. Oh, I meant cold. Or whatever it happens to be at the moment.
PhredE #64,
Family size is and should always remain a choice of the parents. PERIOD ! And the earth is not now nor will it ever be overpopulated any time in the near future.
Some years ago it was explained that the total of earth`s population, if divided into 4 person families and given 1/4 or 1/2 acre lots (I can`t remember which), enough land for a good sized house and room for a garden and nice yard, the total land required would be about the size of Texas.
“Regions” of the earth are overpopulated and vast areas of land are grossly mis-managed, but the earth IS NOT OVERPOPULATED ! The idea that it is or soon will be is as great a hoax as GoreBull Warming !
I’m surprised a roving sensor does not follow Al Gore around. That would truly inflate the readings.
What! They do have a roving sensor following Gorebull? Wow, learn something new every day.
/sarc off
ChapBix #74,
I would imagine that AlBore has been advised to stay away from “heat-seeking missle test ranges” !
Geez, this was one of the big scarey chicken little thingies in the 70′s when I was a looney lib (UW Madison no less). Soon, the population will exceed the planet’s ability to sustain us. Mass starvation, violence, genocide, death, lions and tigers and bears, OH MY! The other big scare was, oh yeah, GLOBAL COOLING! New Ice age is coming ya know.
I notice Man/Bear/Pig has been hanging under the radar with all the new revelations that he’s a freakin’ liar. Go figure.
Can we get an “Amen” …
… from Newt Gingrich?
Swede,
It has become more widely known that Margaret Sanger and her bunch were directly involved in getting DDT banned, the truth being that she and they hated blacks, and banning DDT would exterminate countless numbers of blacks by malaria and other mosquito-born illnesses. Sick.
I remember the global cooling scare of the early `70s too. In the late `70s or early `80s, the late great Paul Harvey exposed (for me) that the same socialist east Europeans who started the early green / environmental movement also started the global cooling hoax. It`s been the same ones since with the addition of new idiot blood that has morphed it into global-warming /-climate change /-climate disruption. The main point: it has been a socialist hoax from the beginning !
I can honestly claim I never believed it !
People have been revealing that he’s a liar for 20 years. He still seems to be making money at it, though. As with all con men, at first you blame them for being dishonest. After awhile, you have to start blaming all of the people who are still stupid enough to give them their money, even when they know that they’re dishonest.
Hold the horses. The new Nasa data was plugged into the global warming model and guess what?
The results still show that man made carbon is causing the earth to heat up and is still destroying the planet. We still need to elimnate the use of fossil fuels.
Otherwise my brother in laws solar energy business will fail and the mercury lightbulbs I purchased will be obsolete. Not to mention all that recycled paper I bought that was recycled by bleaching the toner. Now that bleach is in our water supply.
Global warming must be a fact or I will have egg on my face and lose all my funding.
I think it was Rachel Carson.
Hangfire,
Sorry, you are right; my name recall is not what it used to be. MS was involved in the population control movement, which the DDT ban was an integral part. Socialists all !
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see… or is it the other way around?
Anyway, the old saying holds true “If you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with bullsh!t!. I, for one, am sick and tired of the bullsh!t!
I, for one, cannot understand why anyone would believe AlGore. After all, he IS a politician. And what do politicians do best? LYE!!
I, for one, cannot understand why anyone would believe AlGore. After all, he IS a politician. And what do politicians do best? LIE!!
I, for one, cannot understand why anyone would believe AlGore. After all, he IS a politician. And what do politicians do best? LIE!!
Oops!
Sorry ’bout the previous multiple submissions. I was having “computer issues” (most likely due to global warming).