Roy Spencer (scientist)

Roy W. Spencer ( born December 20 1955) is Director of Research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and head of the U.S. science team for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer ( AMSR -E ) of the NASA Aqua satellite. He worked at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in the field of climate research.

Spencer is best known for his work in the field of satellite -based temperature measurement, for which he was awarded the Special Award of the American Meteorological Society. Spencer is the scientific consensus on man-made global warming with skepticism and is also a supporter of Intelligent Design.

Education and work

Spencer made the 1978 B. S. in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Michigan in 1978 and 1980 or 1982 MS and Ph.D. in meteorology at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Spencer developed an algorithm to detect cyclones and tropical to estimate their maximum wind speed in advance. He used the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit ( AMSU ), University of Alabama.

His ideas about intelligent design and the climate he disseminated publicly. He appeared four times on Coast to Coast AM.

Climate Research

Spencer proposes hypotheses on climate change, it is based on models. In August 2007, he published an article in Geophysical Research Letters concerning the cloud feedbacks in the tropics.

The current understanding of our climate predicts that an increase of high-flying, heat absorbing clouds will accelerate global warming. The reason is an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases. However, Spencer found in the tropics claims to a negative feedback of clouds. Compared with climate models in a very short period of time. This observation would Richard Lindzen's iris hypothesis is based, after this negative feedback would largely cancel the global warming caused by increases in greenhouse gases.

In a press release Spencer said: " To give you an idea of ​​how strong this enhanced cooling mechanism, it leads to a reduction of future warming by over 75 %, if one applies it to global warming. " Spencer added: " The great question that may currently no answer, is whether this enhanced cooling mechanism can be related to global warming or not. "

2011 there was a controversy after Roy Spencer and William Braswell had published a controversial study in the journal Remote Sensing, in which they doubted the figures reported in current climate models temperature increases. The study sparked among professionals from sharp criticism and led to the resignation of the chief editor of the journal, Wolfgang Wagner. In an editorial on the occasion of his resignation Wagner explained that the peer -review process was to make " fundamental methodological errors and false allegations " find. However, the study by Spencer and Braswell is most likely problematic in both respects and have therefore actually may not be published.

Views on global warming

Roy Spencer describes himself as a "climate optimists ", the " thermostat nature " is working on the quantification of the. Some articles Spencer showed views that are of scientific opinion on global warming skepticism.

2006 Spencer criticized Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth, with the words: "For example, Mr Gore asserts that the earth would be warmer now than it had been in thousands of years. But the most recent United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report on this subject was now that all we really know it exists, that it is now warmer than in the last 400 years, mainly due to the Little Ice Age is due. "

The summary of the NAS report (p. 3 ) states:

On 26 February 2007 Spencer wrote in a column for the tabloid New York Post: " Contrary to popular opinion, only a few scientists in the world - possibly none - a sufficiently thorough and comprehensive ( " big picture " ) understanding of the climate system to which one could rely in order to predict the extent of global warming can. For the public, we may all look like experts, but the vast majority of us will only work on a small portion of the problem. "

In an interview with conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh on 28 February 2007 Spencer said that he do not really believe that a " catastrophic man-made global warming" to us belongs. He also criticized climate models with the words: " The people who have developed the climate models that predict global warming, believe that they have enough physics in these models to predict the future. I believe that they do not have it. I believe that the climate system, the weather, as it is today in the real world, a stability shows that they have not yet taken into account in their climate models. " Roy Spencer also appears in the film The Great Global Warming Swindle, in which the man-made global warming is denied.

Spencer was named by Rush Limbaugh, the owner of the Excellence In Broadcasting network " official climatologist of the EIB network".

Spencer testified before the Waxman committee for political influence on the climatology on 19 March 2007.

2008 Spencer published a book on climate change: Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies did Hurt the Poor.

Spencer is a member of the Heartland Institute and staff of the George C. Marshall Institute, both conservative think tanks with political orientation.

Views on Intelligent Design

About Intelligent Design Spencer wrote in 2005: "Twenty years ago I was studying as a graduate student intense controversy between evolution and intelligent design over a period of two years. And finally, I was me - despite my previous acceptance of evolutionary theory as ' fact ' - realize that as a theory of the origin of intelligent design is not religious, and no less scientific, than evolutionism. In the scientific community ... I 'm not alone. There are a lot of good books out there on this subject. Curiously, most of these books have been written by scientists who lost their faith in evolution as adults, after they learned how to apply their analytical skills they had learned in college. "

Awards

Selected Publications

  • Roy W. Spencer: Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies did Hurt the Poor. Encounter Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59403-210-3.

Theses

  • Spencer, R. W., and W. D. Braswell, 1997: How dry is the tropical free troposphere? Implications for global warming theory. Bull Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78
  • John R. Christy, Roy W. Spencer, William D. Braswell, Kevin E. Trenberth, James W. Hurrell: How accurate are satellite ' thermometers ', Nature, 25 September 1997 doi: 10.1038/38640.
  • Spencer, R. W., J. R. Christy, and N.C. Grody, 1996: Analysis of " Examination of the 'Global atmospheric temperature monitoring with satellite microwave measurements .'" Climatic Change, 33, 477-489.
  • Spencer, RW, WM LaPenta, and FR Robertson, 1995: Vorticity and vertical motions Diagnosed from satellite deep layer temperatures. Mon Wea. Rev., 123.1800-1810.
  • Christy, J. R., R. W. Spencer, and R. T. McNider, 1995: Reducing noise in the MSU daily lower- tropospheric temperature dataset. J. Climate, 8, 888-896.
  • Spencer, R. W., R. E. Hood, F. J. LaFontaine, E. A. Smith, R. Platt, J. Galliano, V.L. Griffin, and E. Lobl, 1994: High-resolution imaging of rain systems with the Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech. , 11, 849-857.
  • Spencer, RW, 1994: Global temperature monitoring from space. Adv Space Res, 14 (1 ) 69 - (1 ) 75
  • Spencer, R. W., and J. R. Christy, 1993: Precision lower stratospheric temperature monitoring with the MSU: Technique, validation, and results 1979-91. J. Climate, 6, 1301-1326.
  • Spencer, R. W., and J. R. Christy, 1992a: Precision and radiosonde validation of satellite grid point temperature anomalies, Part I: MSU channel 2 J. Climate, 5, 847-857.
  • Spencer, R. W., and J. R. Christy, 1992b: Precision and radiosonde validation of satellite grid point temperature anomalies, Part II: A tropospheric retrieval and trends falling on 1979-90. J. Climate, 5, 858-866.
  • Spencer, R. W., J. R. Christy, and N.C. Grody, 1990: Global atmospheric temperature monitoring with satellite microwave measurements: Method and results, 1979-84. J. Climate, 3, 1111-1128.
  • Spencer, R. W., and J. R. Christy, 1990: Precise monitoring of global temperature trends from satellites. Science, 247, 1558-1562.
  • Spencer, R. W., D. W. Martin, B.B. Hinton, and J. A. Weinman, 1983: Satellite microwave radiances correlated with radar rain rates over country. Nature, 304, 141-143.

Article

  • ' McCain 's Assault on Reason, National Review ( May 13, 2008)
  • Roy Spencer on Global Warming and the thermostat nature
  • Roy Spencer Audio Presentation 2008 Heartland Institute International Climate Change Conference.
  • Cirrus disappearance: Warming might also thin heat -trapping clouds 2007
  • Tropospheric temperature change since 1979 from tropical radiosonde and satellite measurements Christy et al. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 112, D06102, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006881, 2007
  • Even with Needed Corrections, Data Still Do not show the expected signature of Global Warming Statement Concerning the Role of Water Vapor Feedback in Global Warming The U.S. House Science Committee Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment presented on 7 October 1997.
  • Star Search Articles about Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth ".
  • When Is Global Warming Really a Cooling? by Roy Spencer
  • "NOT THAT SIMPLE GLOBAL WARMING: WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW " by ROY W. SPENCER NY Post 26. February 2007.
  • Global Warming Hysteria Has Arrived? Article by Roy Spencer in TCSDaily.
  • Let Them Confess Their Faith products.
  • Manmade Global Warming: A Catastrophe Pending, or False Alarm? (video, abstract ) - Presented on 25 January 2008 at the meeting of the Philosophical Society of Washington.
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