Global warming 140% faster since 1998

[Binkie The Clown]

https://www.carbonbrief.org/major-correction-to-satellite-data-shows-140-faster-warming-since-1998

A new paper published in the Journal of Climate reveals that the lower part of the Earth’s atmosphere has warmed much faster since 1979 than scientists relying on satellite data had previously thought.

Researchers from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS), based in California, have released a substantially revised version of their lower tropospheric temperature record.

After correcting for problems caused by the decaying orbit of satellites, as well as other factors, they have produced a new record showing 36% faster warming since 1979 and nearly 140% faster (i.e. 2.4 times larger) warming since 1998. This is in comparison to the previous version 3 of the lower tropospheric temperature (TLT) data published in 2009.

Climate sceptics have long claimed that satellite data shows global warming to be less pronounced than observational data collected on the Earth’s surface. This new correction to the RSS data substantially undermines that argument. The new data actually shows more warming than has been observed on the surface, though still slightly less than projected in most climate models.



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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. and the survival of the human race is up to Donald J. Trump...

Boy do I HATE every person who voted for him or not at all or 3rd party.

Boy do I.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I wonder why the graph dips so much in 2016?

If the Donald saw this he would falsely claim it was due to him.

Anyone choosing to have children should really reconsider that choice for two reasons:
1. Overpopulation of the earth.
2. I wouldn't want any innocent, thinking being subjected to the dismal future on Earth.

[Duppers]

3. "Anyone choosing to have children should really reconsider"

+100


Adding: If they are choosing to have children they are either grossly ignorant or in total denial. They do not respect science.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Most arguments to this are from people who have religious beliefs

which I try to avoid if possible. I go with facts (not alternative truths).

[Duppers]

8. I was going to add that.

Btw, I cleaned up my last sentence above. I don't even remember what it was suppose to be - I should just disable autocorrect.

[BigmanPigman]

9. I wish I could too but do not know how.

Help from DU was great but I couldn't understand a word of it. Tech talk is like Greek to me.

[Duppers]

11. Sorry I cannot help.

I once found how but I need to search again.

[Binkie The Clown]

4. I think that children born today may die of catastrophic ecosystem failure before old age. n/t

[BigmanPigman]

5. Perhaps not directly die, but certainly will endure negative repercussions.

Most likely wars, famine, loss of finances and property, illness, migration, nutrition, etc. will occur across the planet.

[Binkie The Clown]

7. Heat waves can kill. Widespread crop failure can kill. That's the sort of thing I meant. n/t

[NickB79]

12. That's what makes me wake up in a cold sweat some nights

My daughter is 7, and my wife doesn't understand why I don't want another child

[hatrack]

10. But but but The Pause! But but Climategate! But but Emaillllzzzzzzzz!!!