New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism

[bernzeppi]

For many years Spencer, along with John R. Christy, has maintained an atmospheric temperature record derived from satellite microwave sounding unit measurements, commonly called the "UAH" record record (see also satellite temperature record). This was once controversial as until the late 1990s the satellite record erroneously showed a net global cooling trend, at odds with the radiosonde and surface record.

Oh my... Roy was wrong!

He's never been able to admit his mistake.

[jburr36]

ROTFL! No science organization that reaps million$ from government or politicians who make revenue generating policy off of global warming is going to be impressed with data, studies, science that contradicts the very 'science' that they get funding for. In fact, in most realms those scientists funded by the very governments to produce scientific results that politicians use to create revenue generating policies is a massive direct conflict of interest and should be totally discredited.

[livingproofof]

Now Spencer is saying that data from NASA's Terra satellite supports his controversial claim. This already shows the Forbes headline to be somewhat misleading: it's not that NASA data are blowing a hole in anything. It's that Spencer's interpretation of NASA data are blowing... something, somewhere.

[livingproofof]

But that interpretation depends on a climate model created by Spencer, and a number of climate scientists, having read the paper, are not impressed. Andrew Dessler, for example, from Texas A&M University, says in an email to me that

[livingproofof]

Overall, the argument made in all of these papers... is extremely weak. What they do is show some data, then they show a very simple model with some free parameters that they tweak until they fit the data. They then conclude that their model is right. However, if the underlying model is wrong, then the agreement between the model and data proves nothing.

[livingproofof]

If Spencer were right, then clouds would be a major cause of El Niño cycles — which we know is not correct. Talk to any expert [on those cycles] and tell them that clouds cause [them] and they'll laugh at you.

[VideoGundamXYZ]

Dr Roy Spencer is an "inconvenient truth" for Al Gore, IPCC and other climate alarmists. Reminds me of climate change reports from Australia's CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology where disclaimers indicated that the authors of the report were not responsible for the accuracy of temperature predictions since assumptions made during climate simulations are due to lack of knowledge about climate. It is these models, not experimental data, that are driving government policy and this is wrong !