“What all the climate models suggest is that, when you’ve got warming from additional carbon dioxide, this will result in increased water vapour, so you’re going to get a positive feedback. That’s what the models have been indicating.
What this great data from the NASA Aqua satellite … (is) actually showing is just the opposite, that with a little bit of warming, weather processes are compensating, so they’re actually limiting the greenhouse effect and you’re getting a negative rather than a positive feedback….
I think they’re about to recognise that the models really do need to be overhauled and that when they are overhauled they will probably show greatly reduced future warming projected as a consequence of carbon dioxide….
The policy implications are enormous. The meteorological community at the moment is really just coming to terms with the output from this NASA Aqua satellite and (climate scientist) Roy Spencer’s interpretation of them. His work is published, his work is accepted, but I think people are still in shock at this point.”“
–Jennifer Morohasy, biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs.
“His work is published, his work is accepted, but I think people are still in
shockdenial at this point.â€There, fixed it for ya.
OMG! You mean we did not fully understand how our climate really works?!
Who’da Thunk?
BTW, this is how science works. You put forth a theory, you get supporting data, and you work with it while all the time trying to prove your theory wrong, and when data arrives to prove you wrong, you modify your theory to account for the new data, or you toss it out.
If you don’t allow your theory to change, then you are a hack, not a scientist.
If you are curious about global warming findings (with graphics) that were funded by neither government nor industry see http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/pangburn.html .
Significant recent warming of planet earth ended in 1998. The carbon dioxide level continues to increase. If it wasn’t for the 22 year period from 1976 to 1998 when the atmospheric carbon dioxide level and average global temperature happened to increase at the same time, the term ‘greenhouse gas’ would be virtually unknown and Kyoto and the rest of the Global Warming Mistake would never have happened. The challenge is to un-brainwash much of the public and get some climatologists and the IPCC to abandon their self serving agenda.
Thanks, Dan! Very, very interesting graphs!