Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Sky is Not Falling

Once again we find that a climate computer model is not actually the same as climate reality (tip to Instapundit):

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.

The climate scientist "consensus" doesn't understand the climate and their efforts to tell us how to solve something--at enormous costs--they haven't proven is a problem is just amazing.

UPDATE: The climate scientists counter-attack, claiming the study does not "debunk" man-caused global warming and the associated claims of bad things and advice for what we should do.

That's fine. In this post I didn't claim the study debunks global warming. I said it shows that the models are not reality and we shouldn't base policy on assumptions that the model is reality. Even the study author agrees with the counter-attack's point, saying:

Spencer agreed that his work could not disprove the existence of manmade global warming. But he dismissed research on the ancient climate, calling it a "gray science."

And even a critic of Spencer's study gets the bigger point:

Dessler, the A&M climatologist said that he doubted the research would shift the political debate around global warming.

"It makes the skeptics feel good, it irritates the mainstream climate science community, but by this point, the debate over climate policy has nothing to do with science," Dessler said. "It's essentially a debate over the role of government," surrounding issues of freedom versus regulation.

Global warming is just the latest excuse to impose socialist economic and government structures on people who want nothing to do with them and can only be scared into letting it happen.