And yet Dr. Roy Spencer -- the author of this article -- remains a climate denialist.
He's a Stage 2 denialist: climate change is real, but it isn't anthropogenic. So... we're dumping CO2 into the atmosphere, and CO2 absorbs heat, but something is countering that effect, and something else is actually behind the warming.
Oh, he's also a creationist. Not directly relevant. But it's just so damn weird that one of our key primary sources for climate data seems like a very poor-quality scientist, who disagrees with the obvious consequences of his own work.
Historically back around the 90s, the satellite datasets tended to show less warming, and were pointed to as evidence by climate change skeptics (who would argue that land-based data was corrupted by adjustments, urban heat island effect, etc)
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Oh, he's also a creationist. Not directly relevant. But it's just so damn weird that one of our key primary sources for climate data seems like a very poor-quality scientist, who disagrees with the obvious consequences of his own work.