Re: REALITIES OF GLOBAL WARMING

From: Eric Swanson (swanson_at_notspam.net)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:40:27 +0000 (UTC)

In article <4176bf35$0$78279$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, no.spam@spam.net says...
>
>Ever since the Kyoto agreements I've been always very much in favor of
>restricting emissions. This ofcourse heavily influenced by our European
>governments who keeps denying other views. Lately I've been reading into
>a more opposing view.
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>Another interesting story extends on debunking Mann's et al
>data-interpretations (the famous "Northern
>Hemisphere Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences,
>Uncertainties, and Limitations" piece that heavily influenced the
>European point of view). The Winter 2003-2004 story in 21st Century
>features an article "The Ice Age Is Coming". It shows that there are
>more interpretations of data than our European government would like us
>to believe.
>
>Article:
>http://21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/Ice_Age.html

This article contains some basic errors and many of the points discussed on
this forum over the past 6 or 7 years. My favorite is the graph ( Figure 8)
lifted from Spencer and Christy's web site. The commentary associated with
it states that there is a global cooling of -0.06 deg C/decade. This is no
longer the case, as the data now shows a warming of about 0.08 deg C/decade.
Other researchers that have analyzed the same data have presented results
that indicate an even larger warming.

Spencer and Christy have not updated the web page referenced since 1998.
The graph was lifted from:
   http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/MSU/msusci.html
This web page states that there is a warming trend of +0.04 deg C/decade.
But, this web page also is out of data, having not been updated since 2002.
I asked NASA about this and Roy Spencer agreed that, yes, the web page needed
to be updated. That was on 25 August, 2004........... 

-- 
Eric Swanson --- E-mail address: e_swanson(at)skybest.com   :-) 
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