Sunday, September 11, 2016

Sorry Deniers, Even Satellites Confirm Record Global Warming - by Joe Romm

The planet just had its hottest 12 months on record.

The people who deny the facts of climate science for a living have had a really tough time recently.

For years they had been dining off the “there’s been no warming since 1998” talking point.  But that one was mortally wounded when 2014 became the hottest year on record — and then it died entirely when 2015 blew away the 2014 record.  And now a stake is being driven through the heart of this vampire again and again as every month of 2016 has been totally crushing both the record for hottest month and the record for hottest 12 months on record.

Satellite data confirms global warming. Credit: University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH)] Click to Enlarge.
It’s just hard to keep pretending not to see the warming trend — even if that’s your job.  The NASA chart at left of land and ocean surface temperature makes clear there was no slow-down, no pause in long-term warming.  If anything, warming is speeding up.

And so Ted Cruz and his fellow climate science deniers retreated to the (equally false) “satellites find no warming since 1998” talking point.

You will no doubt be shocked, shocked to learn that the satellite data has, in fact, confirmed global warming for a long time.  Indeed Dr. Roy Spencer and Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) reported earlier this year that the satellite data shows a “Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978 [of] +0.12 C [0.22F] per decade.”  And Spencer and Christy are both leading deniers themselves!

You can see that yourselves in the data, which Spencer updates at the start of each month:

Higher highs and higher lows — the warming trend is quite clear in the satellite data.

Read more at Sorry Deniers, Even Satellites Confirm Record Global Warming

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