Environment & Economics: Global Warming Apologetics
You may have heard some of the following claims by climate change skeptics recently: -According to solar patterns (and such contributions to global temperatures) we should be beginning to cool, not warm. -Satellite data since 1998 has indicated a halt or pause in global warming. Some data points out that since 2005 we might actually be observing some cooling… according to satellite data. Since the beginning of satellite data collection in the late 1970's, temperature data has been revised several times. The revisions to the data were prompted by the lack of reliability in the data due to things like instrument degradation and orbital decay. It is possible to account for these losses within an acceptable margin of error. Surface data taken by instruments such as oceanic thermometers that record and relay hourly temperature readings do show some slowing to the temperature increases, but not a total stall. Recently the satellite data was revised to account for some of the a