http://climategate.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/04-Rosema.pdf
A new, peer reviewed study published in “Energy & Environment” comes to the stunning conclusion that global temperatures have actually been dropping since 1986. This conclusion, at best, obliterates the claims that there is a global warming consensus.
The “Meteosat Derived Planetary Temperature Trend – 1982-2006” study took satellite derived temperature data from 1986-2006 that was collected using a European satellite system which measures thermal infrared radiation (similar to those red to blue heat maps that weather.com uses.)
Incredibly, here are the key excerpts from the study’s conclusion which reveals the scientist’s bias going into doing the research:
“The amazing finding of the present study is that we do not observe global warming in the period 1982-2006, but significant cooling. What could be the cause?”
After recapping methodology and some key findings that support the conclusion, the study ends by bluntly stating what they believe was the cause of the cooling trend:
“[C]loudiness changes could be the mechanism behind the observed global cooling since 1982: an increase in cloudiness would decrease global radiation and increase rainfall and evapotranspiration. Both effects tend to decrease the surface temperature.”
After all these years, will the global warming disciples have their collectives legs cut out from under them because it was more cloudy than usual during the very years they claimed it was supposed to be getting warmer?
We already know that even the staunchest global warmists concede that warming hasn’t occurred in the past fifteen years, but this study forces us to re-think everything we have been told.
The study is particularly troubling when combined with Russian weather scientists who contend we are heading for a new cooling period, the startling fact that this year Antarctic (South Pole) ice is increasing at record levels, and that the North Pole has hit freezing temperatures about a month earlier than the norm.
(ABSTRACT24 year of Meteosat hourly thermal infrared data have been used to study planetarysurface temperature change. Thermal infrared radiation in the 10.5-12.5mmspectral window is not affected by CO2 and only slightly by atmospheric watervapor. Satellite thermal infrared data have been converted to brightnesstemperatures as prescribed by Eumetsat. Hourly brightness temperature imageswere then composed to corresponding noon and midnight temperature data fields.The resulting data fields were cloud filtered using 10, 20 and 30 day maximumtemperature substitution. Filtered data were subsequently averaged for two 10yearly periods: 1986-1995 and 1996-2005. Finally the change in brightnesstemperature was determined by subtraction. In addition nine locations wereselected and data series were extracted and studied for the period 1982-2006. Ourobservations point to a decrease in planetary temperature over almost the entirehemisphere, most likely due to an increase of cloudiness. Two small areas arefound where a considerable temperature increase has occurred. They are explainedin terms of major human interventions in the hydrological balance at the earthsurface. )
