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New Satellite Data Contradicts Carbon Dioxide Climate Theory
2011-10-31
Global warming alarmism is turned on its head and the supposed role of carbon dioxide in climate change may be wrong, if the latest evidence from Japan's scientists is to be believed.

Japanese national broadcaster, NHK World, broke the astonishing story on their main Sunday evening news bulletin (October 30, 2011). Television viewers learned that the country's groundbreaking IBUKU satellite, launched in June 2009, appears to have scorched an indelible hole in conventional global warming theory.

Standing in front of a telling array of colorful graphs, sober-suited Yasuhiro Sasano, Director of Japan's National Institute for Environmental Studies told viewers, "The [IBUKU satellite] map is to help us discover how much each region needs to reduce CO2 [carbon dioxide] emissions."

Posted by:tipper

#14  See also TOPIX > GHG EMISSIONS: ITS THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES THAT NEED HELP.

and

* SAME > WORLD LEADERS MUST FIND THE CASH TO FULFILL CLIMATE CHANGE PROMISES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-10-31 23:05  

#13  96% of CO2 emissions are from natural sources so this is unsurprising.
Posted by: Aussie Mike   2011-10-31 19:14  

#12  Bobby,
Scientific Online Letter is a bit better
Posted by: tipper   2011-10-31 17:11  

#11  China/manchuria is a polluter, sure, but India is neutral? Also note the mais in large, rectangular areas, and there is no differentiation within the rectangles, suggesting the 'resolution' is pretty gross.

But, hey! I'm just a civil engineer, not a global warming expert!
Posted by: Bobby   2011-10-31 16:03  

#10  Curry said that Muller et al "are not hiding any data or otherwise engaging in any scientifically questionable practice." Contrast that with East Anglia, mentioned briefly in paragraph 2.

And, of course, the first paragraph and the headline proclaim that the Skeptic says the Global Warming true believers were right all along. The spinners are at it again.

It will be interesting to see what peer review concludes about these two reports. It will also be interesting to see whether true believers on all sides of the issue can put their war drums aside for a few minutes and actually read the data with open minds.

BTW, don't take what the news media say about the report as fact. My husband, a scientist, has not in over 30 years read a general news media article--about his field or any other field he's familiar with-- in which the popular media had any grasp of what the scientists were actually saying.






Posted by: mom   2011-10-31 13:46  

#9  If it was round like a ball.. why, we would all fall off!

So that is clearly false! The Science is Settled!

The earth is Flat!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-10-31 13:38  

#8  Hogwash! Next thing those silly deniers will do is claim that the Earth revolves around the sun or that the earth is round like a ball.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division   2011-10-31 13:12  

#7  ANd it turns out that the big story of last week is the usual schtuff, the data never says what the Big Page 1 Press Release says it did.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-10-31 12:47  

#6  Astonishing story?

Maybe "astonishing" doesn't mean what I think it means.
Posted by: gorb   2011-10-31 11:50  

#5  Something else for the IPCC to ignore at the upcoming climate conference in Durban, SA.

Anyone who brings this up (or anything else, like the decade-long stall in global warming) is a racist.
Posted by: Free Radical   2011-10-31 11:35  

#4  Mom,

1/ He wasn't a skeptic.
2/ http://judithcurry.com/2011/10/30/mail-on-best/
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2011-10-31 11:23  

#3  http://host.madison.com/news/article_9af618ad-c444-58b9-bfec-9e8af8d13955.html

In this morning's paper, FYI: Global warming skeptic changes his mind.
Posted by: mom   2011-10-31 11:18  

#2  I'll tell you how they will handle it, they will ignore it. Business as usual. The media is doing it now. This is a new religion of modern mankind. It's what they believe not what actually is. You will not turn them with words that don't support their beliefs.
Posted by: Dale   2011-10-31 11:05  

#1  You can't have the richest nations producing less CO2 than the poor? How the hell are the other nations going to steal all their money!?!?!
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-10-31 10:30  

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