If there has been a planetwide warming trend over the last decade and a half—a claim repeated so often in recent years that many assume it is an established fact—it ought to have shown up by now in the 15 years of temperature readings taken by a network of Earth-orbiting satellites.
So said James Hansen, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies scientist who alarmed the world in the late 1980s with his assertion that Earth's atmosphere had been warming since the mid-1970s...
Yet no sign of such warming has shown up in the satellite data...
Nonetheless, "if there's a greenhouse warming," Hansen said, "it should be visible in their data. The fact that it isn't tells me there's something wrong with their data."
9/6/93
The Washington Post, July 26, 1993:
