Doesn't weather balloon data contradict this?
Not exact matches
But
data from
weather balloons and satellites don't match the projections.
But
data from
weather balloons and satellites don't match the projections.
The same issues have dogged other attempts by climate scientists to glean clues on climate trends from bodies of
data collected by satellites and
weather balloons for other reasons (
not to mention ongoing attempts to discern climate patterns in tree rings, ice layers, and other natural substitutes for thermometers; remember the «hockey stick» debate?).
Consequently it won't fully appear in the satellite or
weather balloon data, which record temperatures in that layer, until this year.
The year 1979 saw the launch of the first temperature - gauging satellites, and suddenly we were
not limited to
data from ground stations, sea buoys, merchant vessels, and
weather balloons.
But, using
data from
weather balloons accumulated over 35 years, these researchers find this is
not so.
But
weather balloon observations (including the NOAA
data set) do
not indicate cloud cover fraction.
It can
not be done from the
weather balloon data; it can be separated out only from the satellite
data where clouds are visible.
The satellite
data and the
weather balloon data are the best evidence we have of whether warming is occurring, and that evidence demonstrates that it is
not.
I do
not know the accuracy of the NCEP reanalysis
data on upper tropospheric humidity, but the direct measurement of humidity by
weather balloons seems preferable to the very indirect determination from satellite
data.
The satellite
data and
weather balloon temperatures are
not nearly as «hard» as they were portrayed in the hearing.