Subj : Global warming exaggerated
To   : RACHEL L. AKERS
From : TODD HENSON
Date : Fri Mar 30 2001 10:52 pm

Scientists Pour Cold Water on Global Warming Stats 
NewsMax.com
Monday, Jan. 15, 2001 
Global warming fanatics have exaggerated the rate of
temperature rise by a whopping 40 percent, casting
even more doubt on the theory that the Earth is
heating up to the danger point, new studies show. 
Proponents of the global warming theory have been
citing temperature records going back over 100 years
that seem to show that global warming is under way.
But an international team of scientists has found
serious discrepancies in these temperature
measurements, suggesting that the amount of global
warming is much less than previously believed. 
The team’s findings, reported in the influential
journal Geophysical Research Letters, concluded that
the traditional measurement of global warming has been
based on sea temperatures when they should have been
taken from measurements of the air above the sea. 
Crews have taken the temperature by dipping buckets
into the sea or using water flowing into the engine
intakes. Scientists have assumed that there is a
simple link between the temperature of seawater and
that of the air above it. 
According to Sunday’s Electronic Telegraph, after
studying years of data gleaned from buoys in the
Pacific that measure sea and air temperatures
simultaneously, the team found no evidence of a simple
link. 
"Instead, the seawater measurements have exaggerated
the amount of global warming over the seas, with the
real temperature having risen less than half as fast
during the 1970s than the standard measurements
suggest," the Electronic Telegraph reported. 
According to the Telegraph, the results of the study
"have major implications for the climate change debate
because the sea temperature measurements are a key
part of global warming calculations. According to the
team, replacing the standard seawater data with the
appropriate air data slashes the overall global
warming rate during the last 20 years, from around
0.18 degrees C per decade to 0.13 degrees C. 
"This suggests that the widely quoted global warming
figure used to persuade governments to take action
over greenhouse gases exaggerates the true warming
rate by almost 40 per cent. The team is now calling
for climate experts to switch from seawater data to
sea-air temperature measurements." 
The latest findings add even more doubt about the
extent, if any, of global warming. They add to the
confusion created by the fact that satellites
measuring the temperature of the Earth have detected
little sign of global warming ÿ despite taking
measurements during supposedly the warmest period on
record.
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