New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism
By James Taylor | Forbes – Wed, Jul 27, 2011
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New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism
NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.
Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real-world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.
"The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost to space during and after warming than the climate models show," Spencer said in a July 26 University of Alabama press release. "There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans."
In addition to finding that far less heat is being trapped than alarmist computer models have predicted, the NASA satellite data show the atmosphere begins shedding heat into space long before United Nations computer models predicted.
The new findings are extremely important and should dramatically alter the global warming debate.
Scientists on all sides of the global warming debate are in general agreement about how much heat is being directly trapped by human emissions of carbon dioxide (the answer is "not much"). However, the single most important issue in the global warming debate is whether carbon dioxide emissions will indirectly trap far more heat by causing large increases in atmospheric humidity and cirrus clouds. Alarmist computer models assume human carbon dioxide emissions indirectly cause substantial increases in atmospheric humidity and cirrus clouds (each of which are very effective at trapping heat), but real-world data have long shown that carbon dioxide emissions are not causing as much atmospheric humidity and cirrus clouds as the alarmist computer models have predicted.
The new NASA Terra satellite data are consistent with long-term NOAA and NASA data indicating atmospheric humidity and cirrus clouds are not increasing in the manner predicted by alarmist computer models. The Terra satellite data also support data collected by NASA's ERBS satellite showing far more longwave radiation (and thus, heat) escaped into space between 1985 and 1999 than alarmist computer models had predicted. Together, the NASA ERBS and Terra satellite data show that for 25 years and counting, carbon dioxide emissions have directly and indirectly trapped far less heat than alarmist computer models have predicted.
In short, the central premise of alarmist global warming theory is that carbon dioxide emissions should be directly and indirectly trapping a certain amount of heat in the earth's atmosphere and preventing it from escaping into space. Real-world measurements, however, show far less heat is being trapped in the earth's atmosphere than the alarmist computer models predict, and far more heat is escaping into space than the alarmist computer models predict.
When objective NASA satellite data, reported in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, show a "huge discrepancy" between alarmist climate models and real-world facts, climate scientists, the media and our elected officials would be wise to take notice. Whether or not they do so will tell us a great deal about how honest the purveyors of global warming alarmism truly are.
James M. Taylor is senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment & Climate News.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Theory of Evolution Has Another Claim Proven Wrong
Darwin's "Exhibit A" may have collapsed
New find puts Archaeopteryx in dino class
It's okay for dinosaurs to have feathers
IT'S evolutionary science's biggest told-you-so.
For nearly 150 years, dino boffs have been wagging their fingers at each other in a war over whether the winged Archaeopteryx deserves to be venerated as the first bird.
Most of them were happy to go along with the theory that Archaeopteryx sat squarely at the root of the broad group of proto-birds, known as Avialae, from which our modern feathered friends have emerged.
The emblematic creature was also held up as a case study of evolutionary transition, to wit, from dinosaur to bird.
And not just any old case study — Archaeopteryx's apparent role as evolutionary placeholder signalling the transition from dinosaur to bird was Charles Darwin's favourite example.
Over the years, a few brave scientists have gingerly expressed doubts about the theory.
They said Archaeopteryx's bird-like characteristics — feathers, the wishbone, three-fingered hands — were also showing up in proper dinosaurs.
But when they get an idea into their heads, scientists are hard to shift. And all the classic classification signs kept placing Archaeopteryx on the so-called phylogenetic tree showing the shift from dinosaur to bird.
Enter Xing Xu, a professor at Linyi University in China's Shandong Province and discoverer extraordinaire of dinosaur fossils, in particular, a new species unearthed in northern China.
In Liaoning Province, Prof Xu and his team unearthed a dinosaur — Xiaotingia — which was roughly the size of a chicken and weighed less than a kilo.
It shared a host of key characteristics with Archaeopteryx but seemed, at the same time, to fall into another group of non-avian dinos called Deinonychosauria.
A standard computer analysis confirmed as much, but at the same time produced a stunning result — when Xiaotingia is added to the classification table, Archaeopteryx gets reclassified into the same group.
It turns out Archaeopteryx, the iconic 150 million year old "original bird", is probably just another dino with feathers, of which there are many, the researchers said.
It is hard to imagine a tougher fall from evolutionary grace.
"In other words, Archaeopteryx was no longer a bird," Lawrence Witmer, a professor at Ohio university's Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, said in a commentary in Nature.
Xiaotingia, it turns out, was the smoking gun that sceptical scientists had been looking for.
Surprised by their findings, Xu and his team ran the analysis again, but this time without the newly discovered species.
Archaeopteryx was restored — in error, they now knew — to its previous perch.
"Perhaps the time has come to finally accept that Archaeopteryx was just another small, feathered, bird-like theropod fluttering around in the Jurassic," Prof Witmer said.
One reason it has been so hard for biologists to embrace this idea may have more to do with history than science.
The first Archaeopteryx specimen was discovered, with uncanny timing, less than two years after the publication of Darwin's game-changing Origin of the Species.
With an evenly matched blend of avian and reptilian features, it became — in textbooks and public debate —"Exhibit A" in explaining the transformative power of natural selection and evolution.
"The familiar fossils have guided almost all scientific thought about the beginnings of birds," Prof Witman said, including himself among those led astray.
Its reclassification, he added, is likely to "rock the palaeontological community for years to come".
So who are the new candidates for king of the roost?
No single species is likely to ever gain the stature that Archaeopteryx once had, Prof Xu said.
But among the new pretenders, three newly discovered creatures stand out — Epidexipteryx, Jeholornis, and Sapeornis.
AFP July 28, 2011 8:13am
www.tencommandmentstoday.com
New find puts Archaeopteryx in dino class
It's okay for dinosaurs to have feathers
IT'S evolutionary science's biggest told-you-so.
For nearly 150 years, dino boffs have been wagging their fingers at each other in a war over whether the winged Archaeopteryx deserves to be venerated as the first bird.
Most of them were happy to go along with the theory that Archaeopteryx sat squarely at the root of the broad group of proto-birds, known as Avialae, from which our modern feathered friends have emerged.
The emblematic creature was also held up as a case study of evolutionary transition, to wit, from dinosaur to bird.
And not just any old case study — Archaeopteryx's apparent role as evolutionary placeholder signalling the transition from dinosaur to bird was Charles Darwin's favourite example.
Over the years, a few brave scientists have gingerly expressed doubts about the theory.
They said Archaeopteryx's bird-like characteristics — feathers, the wishbone, three-fingered hands — were also showing up in proper dinosaurs.
But when they get an idea into their heads, scientists are hard to shift. And all the classic classification signs kept placing Archaeopteryx on the so-called phylogenetic tree showing the shift from dinosaur to bird.
Enter Xing Xu, a professor at Linyi University in China's Shandong Province and discoverer extraordinaire of dinosaur fossils, in particular, a new species unearthed in northern China.
In Liaoning Province, Prof Xu and his team unearthed a dinosaur — Xiaotingia — which was roughly the size of a chicken and weighed less than a kilo.
It shared a host of key characteristics with Archaeopteryx but seemed, at the same time, to fall into another group of non-avian dinos called Deinonychosauria.
A standard computer analysis confirmed as much, but at the same time produced a stunning result — when Xiaotingia is added to the classification table, Archaeopteryx gets reclassified into the same group.
It turns out Archaeopteryx, the iconic 150 million year old "original bird", is probably just another dino with feathers, of which there are many, the researchers said.
It is hard to imagine a tougher fall from evolutionary grace.
"In other words, Archaeopteryx was no longer a bird," Lawrence Witmer, a professor at Ohio university's Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, said in a commentary in Nature.
Xiaotingia, it turns out, was the smoking gun that sceptical scientists had been looking for.
Surprised by their findings, Xu and his team ran the analysis again, but this time without the newly discovered species.
Archaeopteryx was restored — in error, they now knew — to its previous perch.
"Perhaps the time has come to finally accept that Archaeopteryx was just another small, feathered, bird-like theropod fluttering around in the Jurassic," Prof Witmer said.
One reason it has been so hard for biologists to embrace this idea may have more to do with history than science.
The first Archaeopteryx specimen was discovered, with uncanny timing, less than two years after the publication of Darwin's game-changing Origin of the Species.
With an evenly matched blend of avian and reptilian features, it became — in textbooks and public debate —"Exhibit A" in explaining the transformative power of natural selection and evolution.
"The familiar fossils have guided almost all scientific thought about the beginnings of birds," Prof Witman said, including himself among those led astray.
Its reclassification, he added, is likely to "rock the palaeontological community for years to come".
So who are the new candidates for king of the roost?
No single species is likely to ever gain the stature that Archaeopteryx once had, Prof Xu said.
But among the new pretenders, three newly discovered creatures stand out — Epidexipteryx, Jeholornis, and Sapeornis.
AFP July 28, 2011 8:13am
www.tencommandmentstoday.com
Monday, July 4, 2011
10 Rules For Peace and Prosperity.
I have the Power To Decide
You have the ability to make your own decisions. why would you want to other people make decisions for you?
Criminals have decisions made for them when they are imprisoned by a court of law.
If other people are making decisions for you, then you are not a free person, you are a prisoner. Only free people can make decisions for themselves.
I will stay true to my goals
Many people make wish lists. Many people have dreams. Few people have a vision for their life.
Life is a journey that you can determine to take and make your own. How you live it will depend on the goals to which you commit yourself. If you have no goals, you cannot not make a commitment to them. If do not commit yourself to a goal, you have no vision of how your life should be lived and you will end up impoverished.
I will keep my word
People who do not keep their word have no integrity. Integrity is the most important element to becoming a fulfilled and happy human being.
Many salespeople are known for bending the truth and not keeping their word. However, being a great sales person and not being trusted has consequences.
If other people do not keep their word, at least you will always be respected for keeping your word. You will be trusted and this means people will want to do business with you.
I will do my due diligence
The proverb "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread" wasn't coined for nothing.
You can trust every human being to be human, which means that they are untrustworthy and will generally take you down and rip you off at the first opportunity.
While it is unwise for you to call every one you meet a liar and a cheat, it is wise to do your own due diligence and obtain information from independent sources before making a commitment to anything.
I will respect the views of others
Not every body will respect your views. Many people will claim that their guess is always better than your guess. Nevertheless, always respect the right of other people to have a guess, even if they do not know what they are talking about.
You do not have to act upon the guesses of other people, even if you acknowledge that they might have a valid point of view (the emphasis is on the MIGHT and not the "have").
I will not dwell on insults
When you dwell on the insults of other people, it is they that have power over you.
When you dismiss insults immediately, as soon as they reach your ears or are seen by your eyes, you will find that you are free to do other things and enjoy the rest of the day.
I will not involve myself in other people's relationships.
Two's company, three's a crowd, therefore do not invite trouble for yourself by getting involved in other people's relationships. Let other people work out their own problems without your expertise.
If you want to get involved with another person, always make sure the coast is clear, unless you are thinking of starting World War 3.
I will think of alternatives
There is more than one way to skin a cat, according to the proverb.
If you haven't learnt to think outside the square or become a lateral thinker, at least consider that there are always two sides to a coin. And, just in case you were wondering, even a circle has two sides: the inside and the outside.
I will not repeat gossip
Gossip is the realm of the poor, the petty and the wanton (that is the have-nots). Yes, where there is smoke, there is fire, but remember what a person might be cooking on that fire could be her dinner. Just make sure it is not you.
I will focus on developing my own skills
While it is good to admire other people's abilities, don't become a spectator in life. Much of the fun is in the doing, rather than in the booing, as you watch your heroes get older.
Learn new skills that are in line with your life's vision habitually and you will succeed, naturally, with no great effort and simply as a matter of course. Assuming this is the course that you have set in how you want to live your life, so you can enjoy peace and prosperity.
www.tencommandmentstoday.com
You have the ability to make your own decisions. why would you want to other people make decisions for you?
Criminals have decisions made for them when they are imprisoned by a court of law.
If other people are making decisions for you, then you are not a free person, you are a prisoner. Only free people can make decisions for themselves.
I will stay true to my goals
Many people make wish lists. Many people have dreams. Few people have a vision for their life.
Life is a journey that you can determine to take and make your own. How you live it will depend on the goals to which you commit yourself. If you have no goals, you cannot not make a commitment to them. If do not commit yourself to a goal, you have no vision of how your life should be lived and you will end up impoverished.
I will keep my word
People who do not keep their word have no integrity. Integrity is the most important element to becoming a fulfilled and happy human being.
Many salespeople are known for bending the truth and not keeping their word. However, being a great sales person and not being trusted has consequences.
If other people do not keep their word, at least you will always be respected for keeping your word. You will be trusted and this means people will want to do business with you.
I will do my due diligence
The proverb "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread" wasn't coined for nothing.
You can trust every human being to be human, which means that they are untrustworthy and will generally take you down and rip you off at the first opportunity.
While it is unwise for you to call every one you meet a liar and a cheat, it is wise to do your own due diligence and obtain information from independent sources before making a commitment to anything.
I will respect the views of others
Not every body will respect your views. Many people will claim that their guess is always better than your guess. Nevertheless, always respect the right of other people to have a guess, even if they do not know what they are talking about.
You do not have to act upon the guesses of other people, even if you acknowledge that they might have a valid point of view (the emphasis is on the MIGHT and not the "have").
I will not dwell on insults
When you dwell on the insults of other people, it is they that have power over you.
When you dismiss insults immediately, as soon as they reach your ears or are seen by your eyes, you will find that you are free to do other things and enjoy the rest of the day.
I will not involve myself in other people's relationships.
Two's company, three's a crowd, therefore do not invite trouble for yourself by getting involved in other people's relationships. Let other people work out their own problems without your expertise.
If you want to get involved with another person, always make sure the coast is clear, unless you are thinking of starting World War 3.
I will think of alternatives
There is more than one way to skin a cat, according to the proverb.
If you haven't learnt to think outside the square or become a lateral thinker, at least consider that there are always two sides to a coin. And, just in case you were wondering, even a circle has two sides: the inside and the outside.
I will not repeat gossip
Gossip is the realm of the poor, the petty and the wanton (that is the have-nots). Yes, where there is smoke, there is fire, but remember what a person might be cooking on that fire could be her dinner. Just make sure it is not you.
I will focus on developing my own skills
While it is good to admire other people's abilities, don't become a spectator in life. Much of the fun is in the doing, rather than in the booing, as you watch your heroes get older.
Learn new skills that are in line with your life's vision habitually and you will succeed, naturally, with no great effort and simply as a matter of course. Assuming this is the course that you have set in how you want to live your life, so you can enjoy peace and prosperity.
www.tencommandmentstoday.com
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