Key Argument for Global Warming Critics Evaporates

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Key Argument for Global Warming Critics Evaporates Ker Than
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com
1 hour, 39 minutes ago


For years, skeptics of global warming have used satellite and weather balloon data to argue that climate models were wrong and that global warming isn't really happening.

Now, according to three new studies published in the journal Science, it turns out those conclusions based on satellite and weather balloon data were based on faulty analyses.

The atmosphere is indeed warming, not cooling as the data previously showed.

While surface thermometers have clearly shown that the Earth's surface is warming, satellite and weather balloon data have actually suggested the opposite, that the atmosphere was cooling.

Scientists were left with two choices: either the atmosphere wasn't warming up, or something was wrong with the data.

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[BlueEyedSon]

1. Hard to deny global climate change now, huh?

[phantom power]

3. Unfortunately, they will continue to deny it with ease.

This argument became politicized/religion-ized a long time ago, and any facts of the matter are pretty peripheral to what people believe now.

That's sad news, because it means people will continue to deny what's happening around them.

[Canuckistanian]

2. What's needed now is a study to take all those inconsistencies

and factor them out. Just a small test, maybe a year long. Then the spike can be driven into this global warming denial.

For people in the far north, global warming is a daily reality. It's the people in the south that need the shock to their system.