ok, global warming...but caused by what?
From Daniel Devine's interview with Roy Spencer in World...
Roy W. Spencer believes in global warming. He just thinks it's the Earth's fault....In 1989 Spencer and colleague John Christy pioneered a method of measuring global atmosphere temperature using satellite microwave sensors, an achievement that earned awards from NASA and the American Meteorological Society. Today Spencer oversees a research team for an Earth-monitoring satellite from his office at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. In his spare time he writes books throwing cold water on the idea that global warming is mostly caused by people.
His latest, The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists, lays out Spencer's research into the effect of clouds on atmosphere temperature. Spencer became particularly interested in clouds when he learned about a key assumption climate modelers make when predicting future global warming: Warmer average temperatures will result in reduced cloud cover. What if that assumption had it backwards?...
posted by Eric Schansberg @ 6:06 PM
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Interestingly, Spencer is also a creationist. (I think he's an old-Earth creationist; he seems to doubt that evolution can explain new species. I would differ with him on that, but ultimately agree with him that God is behind it all.)
I hope he can substantiate his theory. But for the time being, I would have to wager that the mainstream climate scientists (pro-AGW) will prevail.
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