RSS temperature data bites the dust !
RSS now has "recalculated" atmospheric temperatures recently produced by Mears and Wentz, who are principals in Remote Sensing Systems (RSS).
One unadjusted competitor with the Earth System Science Center (ESS) is at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).
Greenhouse gas warming occurs in the lower troposphere.
Are greenhouse gases causing dangerous global warming?
According to the greenhouse gas theory, and reports by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and other global warming nuts, this warming trend is to be most pronounced over the tropics (roughly 20 degrees South and North of the Equator.
The "new" lower troposphere RSS dataset “(Version 4, compared to Version 3.3) didn’t really change in the tropics.
The "new" RSS dataset does not resolve the discrepancy between observed temperature trends in the lower troposphere.
UAH sattelite data is now clearly superior to RSS data.
• UAH satellite data are validated by measurements from weather balloons, RSS data are not.
• In the latest adjustments UAH uses empirical data to adjust for the diurnal satellite drift. RSS uses computer model estimates.
• Two satellites disagree with each other (NOAA-14 and 15). The UAH team removed the one they think is incorrect. RSS keeps both inconsistent measurements.
• RSS keeps the warming error before 2002, probably caused by diurnal drift, but fixes the error after then.
The effect is a steeper overall warming trend.
• UAH uses a more advanced method with three satellite channels. RSS uses only one channel, but three angles.