But for more than 20 years, there have been available two independent measures of temperature one from Microwave Sounding Units onboard satellites and the other from radiosondes sent aloft with weather balloons that show no net warming at all from 5000 feet skyward. This summary of the full report the only portion that typically is read is what is usually cited as the Consensus of Scientists . If that was the 1996 consensus, it was largely a consensus of ostriches, not scientists. In other words, our models don't work. For once, our eyeballs have triumphed over our computers.
Most people use a weather forecast to plan the future.
The Kyoto Protocol on climate change was a response to a climate forecast. When it finally became clear that Washington was going to get buried in the last snowstorm, the Federal government shut itself down. Virtual Climate Alert draws upon the expertise of Greening Earth Society science advisors and is coordinated by New Hope Environmental Services of Charlottesville, Virginia.