Satellites may have underestimated warming in the lower atmosphere
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They seem to claim that they suspect the actual measurements to be biased because they contradict the models?
I may be wrong here but this is what I gather from the abstract.
[1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases
Methane released to the atmosphere is gone in about 12 years while CO2 takes over 100 years.
So over the lifetime of the gasses methane will have a smaller effect as it just does not stay around for as long.
Also CO2 is mainly absorbed into the oceans acidifying them which is another huge issue we are facing now.
[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2915/the-atmosphere-getting-a-...
If two different interpretations are equally likely it's foolish to focus on one over the other (as the title leads us to do).
Satellites do not measure sea surface or tropospheric air temperatures. They measure some voltage variations from sensors that are affected by various frequencies of electromagnetic radiation and, when integrated with location and orientation data, generate a data product that needs interpretation by experts in a way that may or may not correlate with actual sea surface or tropospheric temperature.
The article is pointing at some inconsistencies in some, but not all, satellite data products. It's not quite saying "if the observations do not fit the theory, the observations are wrong" so much as "if the interpretation of the observations do not fit the theory, the interpretation of the observations may be wrong".
https://skepticalscience.com/Roy_Spencer_arg.htm
Denying global warming at least since 1997, using anything he finds most convenient at the moment.
https://cornwallalliance.org/2009/05/evangelical-declaration...
"But our analysis reveals that several observational datasets — particularly those with the smallest values of ocean surface warming and tropospheric warming — appear to be at odds with other, independently measured complementary variables (e.g. tropical temperature and moisture)"
Which suggests that unless all of the physics is wrong there could be anomalies in either the satellites or the ways its data is processed.