Do the global satellite
temperature measurements
match the global
climate models
used to scare people
about climate change ?
No, they're not even close
No real measurements
( weather satellite,
weather balloons, and
surface thermometers )
match the computer game
predictions !
The computer game
Global Circulation
(climate) Models,
on average, predict
almost triple the
actual warming
measured by
weather satellites
... satellites whose
data are confirmed by
weather balloon data.
Those satellites are ignored
by NASA and NOAA because
they always choose the
measurement methodology
showing the most warming
-- surface thermometers.
They choose surface data
in spite of the fact that
a majority of our planet's
surface has no measurements,
or has missing measurements !
Our planet's surface
is divided into 2,592
5 degree latitude by
5 degree longitude grid cells,
but a majority of grids
have no temperature data,
or are missing data,
so they are "infilled"
with wild guesses made
by government bureaucrats,
who have predicted a lot of
global warming ( their jobs
require that belief ),
so they are biased
toward showing
more warming !
Surface temperature
measurements used
by NASA and NOAA
have also been repeatedly
"adjusted" to show
more warming !
These suspicious "adjustments",
usually making the past cooler,
have created a growing gap
between warmer surface data
and temperature data from
weather satellites and weather
balloons.
UAH
(University of Alabama Huntsville)
and RSS
(Remote Sensing Systems)
satellite temperature data
are the only truly global
temperature measurements
... there are only small
unmeasured gaps
over the poles.
Both UAH and RSS
satellite data
show only one-third
of the warming
that had been
predicted by
global climate models
... making it obvious
the climate models
are failures!
Post World War II warming
began in roughly 1975.
The satellite records begin in 1979.
Raw data are from different satellites,
and require large adjustments.
UAH lower troposphere
(TLT) data
matches radiosonde
(weather balloon) data,
suggesting the UAH
adjustments were valid.
UAH had historically showed
slightly more warming than RSS.
But RSS TLT data were adjusted
in 2015 to show over +0.2 degrees C.
more warming since 1979 than UAH.
To me that means the RSS adjustments
are suspicious, but the difference is small.
Satellites use microwave sounding
unit (MSU) sensors to measure
radiances in various wavelength bands,
which require mathematical calculations
to obtain temperatures.
Three MSU units
measure temperatures
at three elevations:
MSU2: The middle troposphere (TMT)
MSU3: The upper troposphere /
lower stratosphere (TTS)
MSU4: The lower stratosphere (TLS)
None of the MSU units measure
the lower troposphere (TLT)
directly, so TLT data are obtained
by using a weighted average
of the outputs of the three MSUs.
TLT lower troposphere data
are a weighted average
of three measurements
between the surface and
a maximum elevation
of about 13km.
Adjustments to satellite raw data
are made for such things
as orbital drift, diurnal drift,
calibration, instrument heating
and time-of-observation biases
... and are constantly being revised.
UAH has revisited its adjustments
over ten times since 1992.
All data and revisions are
available to the public, very
much unlike NOAA and NASA.
Radiosondes, or weather balloons,
use resistance thermistors
to measure temperatures
as they rise through the atmosphere.
Radiosonde balloons are usually
released from weather stations on land.