NEW Evidence Of Global Warming demolishes chief argument of sceptics

[G_j]

NEW Evidence Of Global Warming Stumps Sceptics

The Statesman - Calcutta,India
LONDON, May 7. -

Powerful new evidence for global warming has been discovered
by scientists funded by the US government, demolishing the chief argument of sceptics who deny that the phenomenon is real.

A new analysis of satellite data has revealed that temperatures in a critical part of the atmosphere are rising much faster than previously thought, strengthening the scientific consensus that the world is warming at an unnatural rate.
The discovery resolves one of the most contentious anomalies in climate science, which has often been invoked by the Bush administration to questions whether man-made global warming is happening.

While it is generally accepted that surface temperatures are increasing by an average of 0.17 degrees Centigrade per decade, satellites have been unable to detect a parallel trend in the troposphere — the lowest level of the atmosphere, extending 10 km above the ground, in which most weather occurs.

This lack of tropospheric warming has long puzzled scientists, as it is predicted by all the major models of climate change. It has also been seized on by a small but vocal minority of scientists, who have used it to raise doubts about whether global temperatures are rising at all. The enigma, however, has now been explained by a team led by Dr Qiang Fu, of the University of Washington in Seattle.

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http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=3&id=70836&usrsess=1
The findings, details of which were published yesterday in the journal Nature, provide one of the final pieces of proof that global warming is taking place, and that it is a human-induced phenomenon.

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[muriel_volestrangler]

1. A thread in the Environment forum

with some more links about this particular story.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x8271

[teryang]

2. Chairman of ExxonMobil disputing science

...right now on Charlie Rose saying nobody knows what causes it.

Here's some more bullshit: we spill only one teaspoon per million barrels shipped. I guess he never walked on a beach in Texas or looked at the Gulf of Mexico flying into Houston.

The only interesting thing he's stated is that nobody in the industry believed Wolfowitz claim that Iraqi oil would fund reconstruction.

When directing conversation toward conservation for the first time, (he didn't bring it up) he says we should use all resources and people more efficiently too. That's all he had to say about it. "There's no quick fixes to problems in energy industry." And no thanks to him, the CEO of the largest energy company in the world. He describes the status quo response as "benign neglect."

His main focus is on opening more countries to exploitation of their resources.

[G_j]

3. "benign neglect."

that would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. How about well funded, aggressive neglect of facts?

[Jim__]

4. The Statesman - Calcutta

Personally, I consider global warming to be the most important issue facing the world today. After reading your post, I scanned msnbc, cbs news and reuters for this story and didn't find it.

Maybe if a few more people die from the heat this summer, they'll report that and tell us that "some scientists" think this may be related to the alleged phenomenon of global warming.