It was a cold month in hell for global-warming alarmists.
First came word last month that the
Interior Department had suspended a top scientist who helped turn polar bears into a fuzzy white symbol of the climate-change movement: Think baby seals — but much, much bigger.
Then there arose further doubts about some critical global-warming data.
First, the bears: Researcher Charles Monnett is being probed over “integrity issues” linked to his 2006 paper that argued polar bears were drowning as rising temperatures melt ice caps.
He’s no small potatoes: Al Gore used Monnett’s work to manipulative effect in his film “An Inconvenient Truth.” And the paper led directly to the 2008 classification of the bears as a “threatened” species, whose survival is allegedly at risk due to global warming.
Of course, even the data on warming are suspect, as a study published last month in the journal Remote Sensing shows.
The study looked at
NASA satellite data from 2000 to 2011 and found that the atmosphere has been releasing far more heat into space than warming models predicted.
That’s key: Alarmists say carbon-dioxide emissions trap heat in the atmosphere, triggering dangerous climate changes. But satellite observations “suggest there is much more energy lost to space . . . than the climate models show,” the study found.
While we have had only one day to examine Andy Dessler’s new paper in GRL, I do have some initial reaction and calculations to share. At this point, it looks quite likely we will be responding to it with our own journal submission… although I doubt we will get the fast-track, red carpet treatment he got. 
Cartoon by Josh
The editor of a science journal has resigned after admitting that a recent paper casting doubt on man-made climate change should not have been published.
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