ibejim's Blog

Back in 2002, NASA launched the "'AQUA" satellite, The puropose of Aqua was to  collect data on water vapour and cloud formations, along with temperature.

Now, what the climate model data (which provides information many pro-warmers use to  help form thier theories) suggest that with carbon dioxide enhanced warming, you should also have an increase in water vapour . Guess what? So far, data provided by AQUA suggest... IT AIN"T HAPPENING!!

The following was taken from and interview done by ABC's Michael Duffy , with Australian  biologist and senior member of Australia' s institute of public affairs, Jennifer Marohasy (yeah she's a biologist, but I found the interview interesting).....

Duffy: "Can you tell us about NASA's Aqua satellite, because I understand some of the data we're now getting is quite important in our understanding of how climate works?"

Marohasy: "That's right. The satellite was only launched in 2002 and it enabled the collection of data, not just on temperature but also on cloud formation and water vapour. What all the climate models suggest is that, when you've got warming from additional carbon dioxide, this will result in increased water vapour, so you're going to get a positive feedback. That's what the models have been indicating. What this great data from the NASA Aqua satellite ... (is) actually showing is just the opposite, that with a little bit of warming, weather processes are compensating, so they're actually limiting the greenhouse effect and you're getting a negative rather than a positive feedback."

Duffy: "The climate is actually, in one way anyway, more robust than was assumed in the climate models?"

Marohasy: "That's right ... These findings actually aren't being disputed by the meteorological community. They're having trouble digesting the findings, they're acknowledging the findings, they're acknowledging that the data from NASA's Aqua satellite is not how the models predict, and I think they're about to recognise that the models really do need to be overhauled and that when they are overhauled they will probably show greatly reduced future warming projected as a consequence of carbon dioxide."

Duffy: "From what you're saying, it sounds like the implications of this could beconsiderable ..."

Marohasy: "That's right, very much so. The policy implications are enormous. The meteorological community at the moment is really just coming to terms with the output from this NASA Aqua satellite and (climate scientist) Roy Spencer's interpretation of them. His work is published, his work is accepted, but I think people are still in shock at this point."

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The whole story can be found here..http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,251
97,23411799-7583,00.html

Maybe mother earth can take better care of herself than we think. Seems to me that the more we learn, the less we actually know, or THINK we know.