The recent Global Warming report. What's the deal.

[theophilus]

It purports to be by NASA and here is a site:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/189147/20110729/global-warming-nasa-climate-change-ipcc-un-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-satellite-date.htm

Now isn't this the one that even the author states that his report is being twisted? Why is it that when I Google this I don't find any disagreement? This is all over the place and I don't see how we have a chance if everyone is reading this crap. Is there any hope on this? What is the story with this report?

[GliderGuider]

1. It's been fully debunked.

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/29/282584/climate-scienists-debunk-latest-bunk-by-denier-roy-spencer/
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/07/misdiagnosis-of-surface-temperature-feedback/
http://www.livescience.com/15293-climate-change-cloud-cover.html

There's plenty of disagreement, from real scientists. A word of earning, when you see the names "Roy Spencer" or "Heartland Institute" run, don't walk, to the nearest exit.

[theophilus]

2. Thanks for this. It is as I suspected. I am very disheartened, however,

by the way these "lies and made up facts" are trumpeted and the uneducated eat it up with a spoon. It is so depressing to me. I love nature and humans, too. I see so much needless suffering ahead if we don't act soon. The great mass of Americans don't even seem to know what is going on. Tragic.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. International Business Times are lying when they call it a 'NASA' study

The author took some data from NASA, and, as GG's links show, tried to interpret it in a variety of dodgy ways that never would have passed peer review in a climate change-oriented publication (Remote Sensing is about collecting geographical data, not analysing it). IBTimes is very pro-big business, so would cheer anything that gladdens Exxon etc.

[theophilus]

4. Thanks for the info. I think being this pro-business is being anti-human

in this context. I guess they hope to stimulate trade with aliens in the future? Stupidity. Evil. Greed.