Of course, it was the deniers fudging the satellite data that got caught, but you knew that already.
No asshole I didn't already know that. Take your BS and pound sand
The fact remains the only people who ACTUALLY got caught fudging the data were Christy and Spencer at the UAH. The deniers accuse everyone else other than them to muddy the waters.
which you can't prove so you lie. dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. dah.
Like I said, the denier data "experts" always play dumb so they can keep on lying. Deniers always play dumb so they can keep on lying. Every error Christy and Spencer made just happened to make the data colder!
UAH satellite temperature dataset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The UAH TLT dataset was a source of controversy in the 1990s as, at that time, it showed little increase in global mean temperature, at odds with surface measurements. Since then a number of errors in the way the atmospheric temperatures were derived from the raw radiance data have been discovered and corrections made by Christy et al. at UAH.
The largest of these errors was demonstrated in a 1998 paper by
Frank Wentz and
Matthias Schabel of
RSS. In that paper they showed that the data needed to be corrected for orbital decay of the MSU satellites. As the satellites' orbits gradually decayed towards the earth the area from which they received radiances was reduced, introducing a false cooling trend.
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Even after the correction for satellite decay UAH continued to infer lower TLT temperatures than RSS based on the same raw data. For example Mears et al. at RSS found 0.193 °C/decade for lower troposphere up to July 2005, compared to +0.123 °C/decade found by UAH for the same period.
Much of the remaining disparity was resolved by the three papers in Science, 11 August 2005, which pointed out errors in the UAH 5.1 record and the radiosonde record in the tropics.
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NOAA-11 played a significant role in a 2005 study by Mears
et al. identifying an error in the diurnal correction that leads to the 40% jump in Spencer and Christy's trend from version 5.1 to 5.2.
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Christy
et al. asserted in a 2007 paper that the tropical temperature trends from
radiosondes matches more closely with their v5.2 UAH-TLT dataset than with RSS v2.1.
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Much of the difference, at least in the Lower troposphere global average decadal trend between UAH and RSS, has been removed with the release of RSS version 3.3 in January 2011. RSS and UAH TLT are now within 0.003 K/decade of one another.