Climate Change Alarmists: Satellites Are Lying

Right up until the release of this video, satellite data has been accepted as the most accurate way to measure global temperatures. In fact, this accuracy was acknowledged by NASA twenty-five years ago, and they’re actual experts.

More recently, though, climate alarmists have grown increasingly resentful of the satellite temperature record because of its pesky refusal to show the warming trend they’d like it to show. Instead of warming, the RSS and UAH satellite data shows that the earth’s temperatures have remained flat for over 18 years – the so-called “Pause.”

Hence the alarmists’ preference for the land- and sea-based temperature datasets which do show a warming trend – especially after the raw data has been adjusted in the right direction. Climate realists, however, counter that these records have all the integrity of Enron’s accounting system or of Hillary’s word on what really happened in Benghazi.

Given the embarrassment the satellite data has been causing alarmists in recent years – most recently at the Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “Data or Dogma” hearing last December – it was almost inevitable that sooner or later they would try to discredit it.

In the video, the line taken by the alarmists is that the satellite records too have been subject to dishonest adjustments and that the satellites have given a misleading impression of global temperature because of the way their orbital position changes over time.

These sound plausible criticisms till you look at this graph provided by one of the scientists criticized in the video, John Christy of the University of Alabama, Huntsville.

What it shows is how closely the satellite data corresponds with measurements taken using a completely independent system – balloons. If the satellites are lying then so are the balloons.

Christy told Breitbart:

There are too many problems with the video on which to comment, but here are a few.

First, the satellite problems mentioned here were dealt with 10 to 20 years ago. Second, the main product we use now for greenhouse model validation is the temperature of the Mid-Troposphere (TMT) which was not erroneously impacted by these problems.

The fact that somebody went to so much time and expense to bring attention to satellite data must mean that they’re pretty desperate to solidify their theories.

This might be because we’re supposed to be hearing from NASA, NOAA and various other other organizations in the coming weeks about what was the hottest year in the modern instrumental record. With any luck, this myth will be laid to rest once and for all. However, even if their data proves that global warming isn’t real, will the government actually let them tell us that? That’s the question that should be on everybody’s mind.

Source: breitbart.com