I almost feel sorry for global warming cultists. Almost.

**Posted by Phineas

Pope Al — Pay no attention to the facts! The science is settled!

I mean, when one of the central tenets(1) of your faith is shown to be wholly, absolutely wrong and all you can do is stand there slack-jawed and watch like a Philistine as the temple comes crashing down around you, it can be a bit… disheartening.

Truth hurts, doesn’t it? (Emphases added)

NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.

Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite, reports that real-world data from NASA’s Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.

“The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost to space during and after warming than the climate models show,” Spencer said in a July 26 University of Alabama press release. “There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans.”

In addition to finding that far less heat is being trapped than alarmist computer models have predicted, the NASA satellite data show the atmosphere begins shedding heat into space long before United Nations computer models predicted.

The new findings are extremely important and should dramatically alter the global warming debate.

Yeah, you bet they will, if they hold up.(2) Key to the “science” of dangerous man-caused climate change is the idea that the carbon-dioxide man dumps into the atmosphere, rather than being beneficial to plants and otherwise harmless, throws the Earth’s thermostat off and causes dangerous levels of warming — seas rising, ice caps melting, deserts expanding, etc. But not because the CO2 directly warms the atmosphere, though it may do that a teensy bit, but because it traps heat indirectly that should otherwise radiate to space by causing an increase in humidity and cirrus clouds.

See where this is going?

By discovering that the Earth releases far more heat than the UN’s models and releases it far earlier in the process than assumed(3), the central driving mechanism of anthropogenic global warming is shown to be nothing more than a myth, a chimera.

It is shown to be wrong, and with it the whole structure of dangerous man-caused climate change collapses.

Not that this will end this nonsense overnight. Too many people, businesses, and governments have too much false pride, money, and political objectives staked on AGW being true. The British government is enthusiastically driving its economy back into the dark ages in the name of solving a problem that does not exist. The Obama administration is grasping for control over the US economy via EPA regulations meant to control “carbon pollution.” Alarmist scientists are desperate to preserve their reputations and grant money, and companies like GE and BP are investing a lot to profit from the “green technology” that’s supposedly meant to save us from global warming — and in government mandates that force us to use that technology.

Then there’s the question of faith, coming back to the title of this post. For many, “Green” or “Gaea” is a religion, though most might deny it. Full of loathing for capitalism and seeing an out of control climate as fit punishment for what we’ve done to the Earth, it’s important to them that carbon dioxide really be a demon, rather than plant food. Living the “green life,” rather than simply being sensible stewardship of the environment and not fouling one’s own nest, becomes a quest for virtue and atonement. And, like any zealot, they have to make sure we live their faith, too, whether we want to or not.

Thus Spencer and Braswell’s findings have to be devastating to alarmists who stop to think about them, and I almost feel sorry for them. Almost.

Nah. Not even close.

LINKS: Spencer and Braswell’s article in Remote Sensing (PDF). More at Hot Air, Power Line, and Pirate’s Cove.

RELATED: Oh, my. Polar Bear-gate? Fraud in the Warmist community? Say it ain’t so! *cough*Climategate*cough* A caution.

Footnotes:
(1) Pet peeve: people who either misspell the word as “tenent” or misuse “tenant.”
(2) Yes, if. Science is about testable hypotheses, not consensus or settled science. Spencer and Braswell’s results have to be subjected to falsification.
(3) All the UN/IPCC computer models are based on boatloads of assumption, guesswork, and very little (and that often “adjusted”) empirical data, unlike the study at hand. That’s not science, that’s a rigged game.

(Crossposted at Public Secrets)

10 Responses to "I almost feel sorry for global warming cultists. Almost."

A Mindful Webworker says:

July 29, 2011 at 9:30 pm

The NASA data confirms what has been said all along: the computer models were based on false assumptions. Garbage In, Garbage Out. And this is making the rounds at various blogs and news sites, helped no doubt by Drudge’s linkage.

I found this to be even more significant, though.

The chief of the world’s leading physics lab at CERN in Geneva has prohibited scientists from drawing conclusions from a major experiment. The CLOUD (“Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets”) experiment examines the role that energetic particles from deep space play in cloud formation. CLOUD uses CERN’s proton synchrotron to examine nucleation.

But we are free to interpret the data. What controls earth’s heat? Clouds. What makes clouds? Cosmic rays. What causes cosmic rays? Solar activity. So, when the sun is quiet, less cosmic rays, less clouds, more heat. When the sun is active, more cosmic rays, more clouds, more heat. That’s one aspect.

Another aspect is the cosmic rays from elsewhere in the galaxy, producing cyclic cooling — the ice ages.

I’m no scientist, but I think I’ve read that right. Feel free to check my understanding:
CO2 Theory About to Take Another Big Hit?
The next climate debate bombshell
CERN ‘gags’ physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment
Global Warming Finally in the Deep Freeze?
Lisa says:

July 30, 2011 at 12:05 am

Fantastic. That is the best thing I’ve read all month. Thanks.
Carlos says:

July 30, 2011 at 12:42 am

Enjoy it while you can, the “scientists” (read: phony liars and cheats) at the University of East Anglia and their cohorts at the United Nations, the US Weather Service, NASA and the all-knowing LSM will have this whole thing “debunked” in a matter of days.

After all, Saint Al would never mislead or lie to us.

Would he?
Tom TB says:

July 30, 2011 at 8:18 am

Since I live on the same tidal cove where I was moved when I was 3 months old in 1955; I can assure everyone that THE SEAS ARE NOT RISING! It’s still a mud flat twice a day, and I’ll never have a deep water water marina :((
Jonapope says:

July 30, 2011 at 10:23 am

Yes it truly is sad for the global warmist. Especially in a year like this where there has been extreme heat in most of the US. But it is fantastic for the rest of us!

I agree with one of the early commenters though that we only need to wait until next week when the scientist will “fix” the flaw in that discovery.
ThePaganTemple says:

July 30, 2011 at 12:19 pm

Saint Al needs to be joined by Saint Mitt, who it seems stands to gain financially (or at least his company does) from Global Warming Climate Change technology.
George Robinson says:

July 30, 2011 at 1:22 pm

The only measured increase in global warming occurred antecedent to an AlGore rally. The tragedy was that the participants seemed to be expelling from both ends simultaneously, as the room temperature rose the ambient air became less stable until it reached combustible mass. AlGore’s imminent departure was signaled by the ignition of the most inneficient jet engines ever built mounted on his private jet. The resultant explosion triggered the sinking of the California coast into the Pacific. No one noticed for months.
ThePaganTemple says:

July 30, 2011 at 2:11 pm

By the way, here’s the story about how Romney stands to benefit from Global Warming Technology through his company Bain
Aarradin says:

August 1, 2011 at 3:08 pm

I’ve been making this argument for 20+ years, its VERY nice to finally have proof.

When I first heard the alarmists going on and on about ‘greenhouse gases’, my immediate reaction was that what makes greenhouses work is the glass walls and ceiling that retain the heat. Our planet has nothing similiar: there’s absolutely nothing to prevent heat from being dissipated to space.
Noelegy says:

August 1, 2011 at 5:44 pm

If you haven’t already, read “State of Fear” by Michael Crichton. It’s about how scaring the pants off people for the cause of global warming is big business. Very good read. Don’t see it getting made into a movie, somehow: I guess global warming skepticism isn’t as sexy as genengineered dinosaurs.

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