I wish the media would check their facts before airing any stories on global warming. I figured I would go to source on the state of our environment in the US and abroad. The Environmental Protection Agency, the have a site specifically dedicated to global warming, but you know what? When I actually read the information I found two key points that really jumped out at me."Although scientists have incontrovertible evidence that the surfaces of the land and oceans have been warming, some scientists are not yet convinced that the atmosphere is also warming. Satellite data on temperatures in the lower 4.8 miles of the atmosphere, spanning a period from 1979 to the present, show little if any warming trend compared with the surface-based record during the same period. However, the 1979-2000 satellite data series may be too short to show a trend in atmospheric temperature. There also are physical reasons (such as the different responses of the atmosphere and surface to stratospheric ozone depletion and El Niño events) to expect that changes in atmospheric temperatures may not exactly match temperature changes on the surface during this period." Little if any warming imagine that!
"Balloon-borne instruments, which researchers have used to measure temperatures in the lower 4.8 miles of the atmosphere since 1958, show an overall warming trend from 1958-2000 similar to that of the surface record. But when just the period 1979-2000 is considered, the balloon data resemble the satellite data (see the charts below). This finding suggests that atmospheric and surface temperature trends may diverge in the short term."
http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/ClimateTrendsTemperature.html
Kind of blows holes in that theory huh! and I didn't make it up, it came straight from the EPA
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