Thursday, May 22, 2003
GLOBAL WARMING ?
Best Data Shows Very Little
Here's an article from Space Daily reporting on a recent study that compared data from satellites and balloons over a long period of time. The conclusion? "[A] a dataset that shows global atmospheric warming at the rate of about 0.07 degrees C (about 0.13 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade since November 1978."
"That works out to a global warming trend of about one and a quarter degrees Fahrenheit over 100 years," said Dr. John Christy, who compiled the comparison data. "That's a definite warming trend, which is probably due in part to human influences. But it's substantially less than the warming forecast by most climate models, and it isn't entirely out of the range of climate change we might expect from natural causes."
Of course, I expect this to be buried by the mainstream press. Who needs facts when everyone knows that global warming is a real and present danger, right?
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 8:39 PM
