Yulegoat said:
Well, there is. It can be seen from the satellite data and weather station data as well as in melting glaciers. The meltdown will continue for a long time as it is also one of the delayed effects Mnementh mentioned. The huge East Antarctica is so large and isolated that it's gaining mass though because of increased precipitation. |
Actually ...
"Unlike the surface-based temperatures, global temperature measurements of the Earth's lower atmosphere obtained from satellites reveal no definitive warming trend over the past two decades. The slight trend that is in the data actually appears to be downward. The largest fluctuations in the satellite temperature data are not from any man-made activity, but from natural phenomena such as large volcanic eruptions from Mt. Pinatubo, and from El Niño. So the programs which model global warming in a computer say the temperature of the Earth's lower atmosphere should be going up markedly, but actual measurements of the temperature of the lower atmosphere reveal no such pronounced activity."
<a href="http://science.nasa.gov/NEWHOME/headlines/essd06oct97_1.htm">Source: NASA</a>
A very disturbing thing in the entire global warming debate is that satellite data is being ignored in favour of far less accurate surface data. Just as a side note, why are the skeptics always far better informed than the believers in the Global Warming debate?
