The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns

[onthedarkside]

 

There is a paradox at the heart of our changing climate. While the blanket of air close to the Earth’s surface is warming, most of the atmosphere above is becoming dramatically colder.

 

The same gases that are warming the bottom few miles of air are cooling the much greater expanses above that stretch to the edge of space.

This paradox has long been predicted by climate modelers, but only recently quantified in detail by satellite sensors. 

 

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https://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-change-upper-atmosphere-cooling

 

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As the scientists involved with this research noted, if anyone, contrary to reason, needed any further proof that the global warming we are now experiencing is human-caused, this should put an end to that. If solar cycles were responsible, as a few recalcitrant diehards and the millions who subscribe to their views maintain, then the atmosphere would be heating throughout. But, as even the early models in the 70's predicted, as the troposphere warmed, the rest of the atmosphere would cool. Which is exactly what is occurring.

[ozimoron]

Are they lying about the sensor data from the satellites?

Edited May 20, 2023 by Pink Mist

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Well, even though the research isn't from an unbiased left wing University, as those of us capable of reading past the headlines know,  but rather from a study published in PNAS from a researcher at Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution, it still provides undeniable evidence that the rapid rate of warming the earth's atmosphere is now experiencing is human caused.  The fact that the upper atmosphere is cooling while the lower atmosphere is warming is proof of that.

Of course, if you can offer a rational hypothesis in opposition to that, and not one raoted in accusations of bias and dishonesty, please share your ideas with us. To help you formulate your alternative, you might want to start by actually reading the article rather than continuing to offer nothing but Pavlovian reactions to  headlines and publishing venues.

 

Edited May 20, 2023 by Pink Mist

[Pink Mist]

Reported off topic post as well as troll posts removed 

[roquefort]

On 5/19/2023 at 6:20 PM, placeholder said:

unbiased left wing University

Isn't that an oxymoron?

[ozimoron]

45 minutes ago, roquefort said:

Isn't that an oxymoron?

Yes, there's very few right wing universities.

[Stargeezr]

Volcanoes. heating the lower atmosphere? Earth warming itself up? Is that also possible?

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58 minutes ago, Stargeezr said:

Volcanoes. heating the lower atmosphere? Earth warming itself up? Is that also possible?

Your notion doesn't explain why the upper atmosphere is actually getting cooler.

[Yellowtail]

New climate concerns, I'm shocked. 

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1 minute ago, Yellowtail said:

New climate concerns, I'm shocked. 

Thank you for sharing your feelings with us.

[radiochaser]

Is a new ice age upon us?

Will glaciers flow south from the north pole and scrape my house away from it's foundations?

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On 5/22/2023 at 10:39 AM, radiochaser said:

Is a new ice age upon us?

Will glaciers flow south from the north pole and scrape my house away from it's foundations?

Because the atmosphere and the oceans are getting warmer, this means that glaciers will be moving South? Are you an inhabitant of oppositeworld?

[talahtnut]

We can't rely on a group of scientist without hearing from other scientists.

Scientist argue all the time, as I'm sitting next to a log fire in Old Blighty, 

waiting for the planet to heat up, and missing Pattykins.

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4 hours ago, talahtnut said:

We can't rely on a group of scientist without hearing from other scientists.

Scientist argue all the time, as I'm sitting next to a log fire in Old Blighty, 

waiting for the planet to heat up, and missing Pattykins.

There was a time for debate about human-caused climate change, but the time has passed. The evidence is overwhelming. Almost no climatologists doubt the evidence now and those who do are mostly old and past it.

[talahtnut]

I'm doing my part to cool down the planet by leaving the door of the refrigerator open.