Report Reconciles Atmospheric Temperature Trends

Read the article describing the study by Juliet Eilperin in The Washington Post of May 3, 2006.

The U.S. Climate Change Science Program has issued the first of 21 Synthesis and Assessment S&A Products it is preparing. The report findings improve our understanding of climate change and human influences on temperature trends. According to the report, "there is no longer a discrepancy in the rate of global average temperature increase for the surface compared with higher levels in the atmosphere. This discrepancy had previously been used to challenge the validity of climate models used to detect and attribute the causes of observed climate change. This is an important revision to and update of the conclusions of earlier reports from the U.S. National Research Council and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

Read the press release for the report.

Read the report itself. (9.2 MB, PDF)

Perhaps now the Bush administration will take more effective action to limit greenhouse gas emissions!