Posted on 08/12/2004 7:30:42 AM PDT by areafiftyone
New Findings Show Earth is Not Getting Warmer; Studies Also Show Climate Models Break from Reality Says NCPA Scholar
To: National Desk, Science and Environment reporters
Contact: Sean Tuffnell of the National Center for Policy Analysis, 800-859-1154 or stuffnell@ncpa.org
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Contrary to popular myth the Earth is not warming significantly, according to new research published last month in Geophysical Research Letters by scientists with the universities of Rochester and Virginia.
The reports note two important findings that run counter to the view that human activity is causing catastrophic global warming.
"It's been known for some time that satellites and surface thermometers give different temperature trends," said one of the reports' co-authors Prof. S. Fred Singer, president of the Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP). "We now have independent confirmation that the satellite results are correct and that the climate is not warming." Prof. Singer, an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) is also a former director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service.
Proponents of global warming theory have long pointed to thermometer measurements at the Earth's surface as proof that the Earth is warming. Other scientists have pointed to balloon and satellite readings of temperatures in the Earth's lower atmosphere that show no significant warming. The scientists from the universities of Rochester and Virginia employed a new, independent way of determining the temperature, using historic meteorological climate data to construct temperature values for each grid cell of the Earth at an equivalent height of two meters. This analysis agreed with the satellite and balloon measurements, establishing that the disparity is close to the surface and mainly in the tropics.
In another report, the Rochester/Virginia scientists found that the computer climate models used to assert that the introduction of greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide (CO2), into the atmosphere is causing the Earth to warm, and that the effect increases with altitude becoming twice as strong at about three miles up, are in stark contrast to the actual data of the past quarter-century. Comparing the results from the three commonly cited climate models with four independent observational data sets, the scientists found that the models all showed temperatures increasing with altitude, while the actual observations showed the opposite occurred.
"If the global climate is not warming, why all the fuss?" asked Singer. "The whole issue of controlling CO2 emissions is moot."
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The NCPA is an internationally known nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute with offices in Dallas and Washington, D.C., that advocates private solutions to public policy problems. NCPA depends on the contributions of individuals, corporations and foundations that share its mission. The NCPA accepts no government grants.
I'll see your Gasp and raise you a Gasp.
I could tell you that. Its been one of the coolest summers in ages here. It hasn't been over 80 degrees more than 3 or 4 times so far this August and July never got above the mid-80s!
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Global warming is here, its here. The first part of August and it has been in the 40's in the mornings here in the midwest.
Oh, no!!!!!!! We are suffering Global Temperature Stagnation!!!!!
As John Kerry would say, Al Gore lied, Who Cares! (/sarcasm)
Gore lied, people fried!
My electric bill will be the lowest ever for this summer :-)
In Wisconsin, record low maximum temperatures established as far back as the 1880s were broken yesterday.
Global Warming My A$$
When I awoke this morning to the sound of my SUV sobbing in the driveway, I had no idea.
Plant a flower today for the anti-American Keyoto Treaty folks.
When I awoke this morning to the sound of my SUV sobbing in the driveway, I had no idea.
Plant a flower today for the anti-American Keyoto Treaty folks.
JUST THINK what you would be driving if Al Gore had been president..LOL
Actually my A$$ is hot right now so there is global warming!
Pfft, that's nothin'! (wink) Yesterday the high for the day was 61, and 59 the day before in Mpls! We're down in the 40's at nite!
Obviously you fail to grasp the nuances of the Global Warming Argument. "Global Warming" does not simply mean that the Earth gets warmer. It can also mean that the Earth gets cooler. Additionally, it can mean that the Earth remains the same temperature.
The important point is not the actual temperature of the Earth. What's important is that it is the fault of the United States, who must pay dearly for making the planet whatever temperature it is at any given time.
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