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Global warming models flawed. (Insider Report).


Predictions generated by computer models have formed the basis for many claims that the Earth is warming. But U.S. scientists at the Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole South Pole, southern end of the earth's axis, lat. 90° S. It is distinguished from the south magnetic pole. The South Pole was reached by Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, in 1911. See Antarctica.  have found that the atmosphere over the pole is 20 to 30 degrees Celsius colder than computer models have shown. Professor Chester Gardner of the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
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, joined by Illinois doctoral student Weilin Pan and Ray Roble of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a non-governmental U.S.-based institute whose stated mission is "exploring and understanding our atmosphere and its interactions with the Sun, the oceans, the biosphere, and human society. , claims the models are wrong in an article published in the American Geophysical Union The American Geophysical Union (or AGU) is a nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 50,000 members from over 140 countries. AGU's activities are focused on the organization and dissemination of scientific information in the interdisciplinary and  Letters.

Gardner explained that the team of scientists at the South Pole had recently collected temperature data at much higher altitudes than previously recorded. These findings pointed to what he termed "a major flaw in current models."
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Publication:The New American
Date:Nov 4, 2002
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