There is no way to invert the microwave signal from the surface and atmosphere to give the temperature of a specific level. There will always be bleed-through from other levels and the surface. Of course they tried to account for that, but they did it badly, very badly indeed. At a seminar at Texas A&M a graduate student pointed this out, only to be dismissed by the speaker, one of Christy's co-authors.
As I recall they were incorporating more of a stratospheric component than they expected, as as the stratosphere is cooling, naturally this reduced the warming they got at 500 mb.
They also failed to account for changes in the orbit of the satellites.
So, three mistakes, more or less elementary, all making the results look more like the ones Christy wanted (1). That's more than suspicious.
(1) Christy's a religious type and has some ill-concieved idea that God won't let the planet get too hot, or something. He's been quite open about this - but not when talking to scientists.
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There is no way to invert the microwave signal from the surface and atmosphere to give the temperature of a specific level. There will always be bleed-through from other levels and the surface. Of course they tried to account for that, but they did it badly, very badly indeed. At a seminar at Texas A&M a graduate student pointed this out, only to be dismissed by the speaker, one of Christy's co-authors.
As I recall they were incorporating more of a stratospheric component than they expected, as as the stratosphere is cooling, naturally this reduced the warming they got at 500 mb.
They also failed to account for changes in the orbit of the satellites.
So, three mistakes, more or less elementary, all making the results look more like the ones Christy wanted (1). That's more than suspicious.
(1) Christy's a religious type and has some ill-concieved idea that God won't let the planet get too hot, or something. He's been quite open about this - but not when talking to scientists.
William Hyde