gary lawrence murphy wrote and say hello to the cool oooo this is going to cause some stir of course not some people just don t want to be confused by the facts summary as part of an ongoing nasa uah joint project dr john christy of uah and dr roy spencer of nasa s marshall space flight center use data gathered by microwave sounding units msus on national oceanic and atmospheric administration tiros n satellites to get accurate direct measurements of atmospheric temperatures for almost all regions of the earth but some plonker will come up with yet another computer model predicting global warming and storms and floods in NUMBER years even though it can t predict next week s weather and predict widespread cooling in some parts of the globe which is now part of global warming and will get plenty of publicity for even more conclusive scaremong h h h h h h h h h proof globally however the satellite data show a cooling trend of NUMBER NUMBER degrees celsius per decade since the first noaa tiros n satellites went into service umpteen studies have already shown that temperature variations when even detectable in the noise go either way depending on which data you look at of great concern to scientists is the lack of consistency in the way readings are taken the construction of nearby roads parking lots runways and buildings may cause the temperature to rise a little due of urbanization this temperature change may be an artifact of a local asphalt effect rather than a long term widespread climate change one study from vienna showed long term warming from thermometers at the airport and none from other sites another study with data from antarctica which was touted as supporting global warming while being free from this urbanization effect later turned out to be dominated by the time of day at which the airplane that made the measurements flew i may have mentioned this one bNUMBER there are no facts only interpretations friedrich nietzsche bullshit rob _ 