Why John Christy’s Missing Hotspot Matters
Posted: April 5, 2017 Filed under: Climate science, Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, Hot Spot | Tags: AGW falsified, Climate Change, Climate Congressional Enquiry, Climate science, Global Warming, John Christy, Satellite Data, science, Scientific Method, The Hot Spot, The Missing Hot Spot, US Senate Testimony 1 Comment“One of the key predicted observations of anthropogenic CO2 climate theory is the existence of an equatorial tropospheric hotspot.
“But nobody has yet managed to unequivocally detect that predicted hotspot.”
IMO, one of the most important pieces of the “global warming” aka “climate change” aka “climate disruption” debate … the missing ‘Hot-Spot’.
Dr David Evans wrote an excellent piece on the missing “hot spot” back in 2008:
“No Smoking Hot Spot”
(The Australian)https://climatism.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/the-missing-hot-spot/
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One thing which struck me about the recent climate science hearing is how little attention was paid to Dr. John Christy’s demonstration of a flawed climate model prediction – the missing Tropospheric hotspot.
A flawed prediction does not automatically mean the models are totally wrong – but it is a strong indicator that something isn’t right.
Consider the primary observation. The world has warmed since the mid 1850s, and for the sake of argument lets assume that the world has warmed since the mid 1930s.
Given that warming, you could propose a number of different theories for the cause of that warming, for example;
1. Chaotic shifts in ocean currents or solar influences have influenced global temperature.
2. Anthropogenic CO2 emissions have caused global temperature to rise
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The missing hot spot implies that either the warming is happening far too low down in the troposphere to have been caused by CO2 – or it’s not happening at the equator – or both.
Either way it is a spanner in the CO2 gravy boat, and instead it supports low level warming created from the reduction in low level cooling that occurred before the 1970s clean air acts and which resulting in action to reduction pollution from approximately the 1970s-2000s when we got a pause in both pollution reduction and warming. I strongly suggest that was not coincidental.
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