For a long time now, there has a been a massive discrepancy between the satellite data and Warmist models and “ground data”. Well, obviously, that was a big issue for the Cult of Climastrology. So they did what they do best: modify the data
Climate change sceptics suffer blow as satellite data correction shows 140% faster global warming
Climate change deniers and sceptics have long pointed to satellite data showing lower temperatures than those recorded on the ground.
However, new research has found an explanation for this apparent discrepancy.
The orbit of satellites around the Earth gradually decays over time due to friction in the Earth’s atmosphere and this gradually changes the time they pass over any one spot and this obviously has a significant effect on the temperature.
Using information from the satellites, the scientists, Dr Carl Mears and Frank Wentz, of Remote Sensing Systems, a California-based research company, developed a new method of correcting for the changes.
Obviously, they found something startling
And what they found was startling.
The rate of warming was about a third higher at 0.174 degrees Celsius per decade between 1976 and 2016, compared to 0.134C per decade.
Is anyone surprised that massaging and adjusting the data with a “new method” suddenly gave them not only an outcome that accords with the Warmist’s talking points, but is even worse than thought?
Writing in the Journal of Climate, the scientists said: “The changes result in global-scale warming … about 30 per cent larger than our previous version of the dataset.
Of course it did.
BTW, this still wouldn’t prove that the warming is mostly/solely caused by Mankind.
Oh, and I wrote this in the morning for posting in the p.m., ran across this
https://twitter.com/SteveSGoddard/status/880756744447774720
