A curious little bit of news from NASA
Jim Hanson leaves NASA and all of a sudden, stories like this come out.
From
Ice Age Now:
NASA � New study shows that CO2 COOLS atmosphere
Carbon dioxide acts as a coolant in Earth�s atmosphere, says new NASA report.
�NASA�s Langley Research Center has collated data proving that �greenhouse gases� actually block up to 95 percent of harmful solar rays from reaching our planet, thus reducing the heating impact of the sun,� says to this article on principia-scientific.org.
�The data was collected by Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry, (or SABER). SABER monitors infrared emissions from Earth�s upper atmosphere, in particular from carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO), two substances thought to be playing a key role in the energy balance of air above our planet�s surface.�
�Carbon dioxide and nitric oxide are natural thermostats,� explains James Russell of Hampton University, SABER�s principal investigator. �When the upper atmosphere (or �thermosphere�) heats up, these molecules try as hard as they can to shed that heat back into space.�
Say what you may about climate reports coming from a website called Ice Age Now --but-- the simple fact is that this information comes from these two NASA links (
here and
here) and the data is being presented as the result of NASA research.
Posted by DaveH at April 22, 2013 5:09 PM