Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:21:23 -0600 (CST)
From: "Dean Stinson-O'Gorman" <deanso-AT-cs.uregina.ca>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Global Warming


On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Russell Pearson wrote:

> 
> Global warming is measured in two ways:
<snip>
> 
> What do they reveal? well the land based measurements show a trend towards
> global warming, but the baloons and satellites do not reveal any such
> trends. 
> 


Hi folks,

Allow me to add a brief comment on the above bit of misinformation used by 
the anti-global warming people:  

All general circulation models of climate change predict a cooling of 
the stratosphere as part of the process of increasing ground 
temperature with an enhanced greenhouse effect.  Thus, the satellite 
measurements of stratospheric temperatures, which are fundamentally more 
inaccurate than ground-based measurements anyway, SHOULD 
demonstrate a cooling trend.  This actually confirms global warming.

> 
> Global warming? Let's keep the question mark! 
> 

No need.  Increased CO2 concentration from industrial output, along with 
even more rapidly increasing concentrations of more potent greenhouse 
gases like methane, will increase the planet's average temperature 
significantly.  

Dean

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Dean Stinson O'Gorman

deanso-AT-cs.uregina.ca
dean-AT-physics.mcgill.ca




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