[cogitator]

I don't see the contradiction. Warming of the troposphere raises the height of the tropopause.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

There is no observation of temperature increase. Just an increase in the area under study. I understand that an increase in the mass (assuming this accompanies an increase in thickness) of the troposphere could imply an increase in the total heat content, given that the observed temperature is constant. However, it most definitely does not imply an increase in the rate of heat flow into that mass. It would make sense to observe an increase in observed temperature followed by an increase in height/mass and say that the latter was a reaction to the former. However, there is quite definitely no such observation.