These Deniers must not be allowed to contradict the "Truth" of irreversible Global Warming* taking place....
Posted on 08/03/2013 4:04:52 PM PDT by grundle
A new peer-reviewed paper published in Energy & Environment analyzes 24 years of data from the European Meteosat weather satellite and finds global temperatures decreased over the period 1982-2006. According to the authors, “Our observations point to a decrease in planetary temperature over almost the entire hemisphere, most likely due to an increase of cloudiness.”
“The cloud filtered temperature change patterns, in figure 2c, indicate that the largest decrease occurs in the more cloudy regions of the hemisphere: the tropics and the temperate zones, while in the desert belt the temperature decrease is much smaller. This suggests that cloudiness changes could be the mechanism behind the observed global cooling since 1982: an increase in cloudiness would decrease global radiation and increase rainfall and evapotranspiration. Both effects tend to decrease the surface temperature.”
Full paper available here
Meteosat Derived Planetary Temperature Trend 1982-2006
Andries Rosema1, Steven Foppes1, Joost van der Woerd1
1EARS Earth Environment Monitoring Ltd., Delft, the Netherlands Kanaalweg 1, 2628 EB Delft, the Netherlands
Abstract
24 year of Meteosat hourly thermal infrared data have been used to study planetary surface temperature change. Thermal infrared radiation in the 10.5-12.5mm spectral window is not affected by CO2 and only slightly by atmospheric water vapor. Satellite thermal infrared data have been converted to brightness temperatures as prescribed by Eumetsat. Hourly brightness temperature images were then composed to corresponding noon and midnight temperature data fields. The resulting data fields were cloud filtered using 10, 20 and 30 day maximum temperature substitution. Filtered data were subsequently averaged for two 10 yearly periods: 1986-1995 and 1996-2005. Finally the change in brightness temperature was determined by subtraction. In addition nine locations were selected and data series were extracted and studied for the period 1982-2006. Our observations point to a decrease in planetary temperature over almost the entire hemisphere, most likely due to an increase of cloudiness. Two small areas are found where a considerable temperature increase has occurred. They are explained in terms of major human interventions in the hydrological balance at the earth surface.
Sunspots correlate inversely with cloud cover. This is due to the sun’s interference with Earth-bound cosmic rays which encourage cloud formation.
The more sunspots (or solar flares), the less clouds on Earth, the warmer the planet.
Recently, a trend of low or no sunspots has been observed.
Watch out! As recent as the era of Charles Dickens, a similar period of low sunspot activity correlated with vastly colder temperatures. In fact, you could walk across a frozen Thames in Dickens’s day.
We are being lied to, and in all likelihood being setup for a major fall.
Ah, but, but, uh, cosmic rays are cause by global warming! Yeah, that's it!! And cosmic rays cause clouds, and clouds cause cooling so, see, we were right!! Global warming is causing global cooling! Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah!
Both are full of Liberals, therefore, Liberals cause global warming.
Maybe they're rubbing too many sticks together.
That is probably going to be their response too
Cosmic Rays —> Clouds —> Cooling
Sunspots —> Less Cosmic Rays —> Less Clouds —> Warming
Of course, no grants, Oscars or Nobels for this analysis.
These Deniers must not be allowed to contradict the "Truth" of irreversible Global Warming* taking place....
...Obama issues an Executive Order to the Sun...
....to increase it's magnetic field....
and make a good crop of sunspots before elections in 2016....
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades.
The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age....and lasted 400 years.
Good luck surviving with no electricity and GE modified seeds.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news203746768.html#jCp
Does this mean that there is a purely coincidental plane crash in their future?
Bump....
bump to the top
BTW Global temps are falling: http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/08/02/new-satellite-dataset-finds-global-temperatures-decreased-from-1982-2006/ But facts mean about as much to these assholes as laws mean to obama.
>> In fact, you could walk across a frozen Thames in Dickens’s day.
It’s worth noting that in the winter of 1775-1776, Henry Knox moved 50 some large artillery pieces from Fort Ticonderoga in New York to Boston. This involved crossing the *frozen* Hudson River with guns weighing over 5000# for the largest pieces.
It will be interesting to see the Warmists response if we start to see winters like that again due to a fall in solar output.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_train_of_artillery
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