<div dir="ltr"><div>It's a Chinese hoax!</div><div><br></div><div>Actual article referenced at bottom.</div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="gmail-article__title" style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:normal;font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:38px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Yes, Donald Trump did call climate change a Chinese hoax</h1></div><div><a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/03/hillary-clinton/yes-donald-trump-did-call-climate-change-chinese-h/">http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/03/hillary-clinton/yes-donald-trump-did-call-climate-change-chinese-h/</a><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/major-correction-to-satellite-data-shows-140-faster-warming-since-1998">https://www.carbonbrief.org/major-correction-to-satellite-data-shows-140-faster-warming-since-1998</a></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:25px;line-height:46px;font-size:30px;font-family:"PT Serif",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">A new </span><a href="http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0768.1" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(47,143,206);text-decoration-line:none">paper</a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> published in the Journal of Climate reveals that the lower part of the Earth’s atmosphere has warmed much faster since 1979 than scientists relying on satellite data had previously thought.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:25px;line-height:36px;font-size:20px;font-family:"PT Serif",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Researchers from </span><a href="http://www.remss.com/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(47,143,206);text-decoration-line:none">Remote Sensing Systems</a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> (RSS), based in California, have released a substantially revised version of their lower tropospheric temperature record.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:25px;line-height:36px;font-size:20px;font-family:"PT Serif",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">After correcting for problems caused by the decaying orbit of satellites, as well as other factors, they have produced a new record showing 36% faster warming since 1979 and nearly 140% faster (i.e. 2.4 times larger) warming since 1998. This is in comparison to the previous version 3 of the lower tropospheric temperature (TLT) data </span><a href="http://images.remss.com/papers/rsspubs/Mears_JTECH_2009_TLT_construction.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(47,143,206);text-decoration-line:none">published in 2009</a><span style="box-sizing:border-box">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:25px;line-height:36px;font-size:20px;font-family:"PT Serif",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Climate sceptics </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/01/29/ted-cruz-keeps-saying-that-satellites-dont-show-warming-heres-the-problem/?utm_term=.903f114e4c94" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(47,143,206);text-decoration-line:none">have long claimed</a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> that satellite data shows global warming to be less pronounced than observational data collected on the Earth’s surface. This new correction to the RSS data substantially undermines that argument. The new data actually shows more warming than has been observed on the surface, though still </span><a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/study-why-troposphere-warming-differs-between-models-and-satellite-data" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(47,143,206);text-decoration-line:none">slightly less</a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> than projected in most climate models.</span></p></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><a href="http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0768.1">http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0768.1</a><div><div class="gmail-hlFld-Title" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:FontAwesome,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div class="gmail-publicationContentTitle" style="margin-bottom:30px"><h1 class="gmail-chaptertitle" style="font-size:24px;margin-bottom:20px;font-family:"PT Sans";margin-top:32px">A satellite-derived lower tropospheric atmospheric temperature dataset using an optimized adjustment for diurnal effects</h1></div></div><div class="gmail-copyrightStatement" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:FontAwesome,sans-serif;font-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