Chris,
You had asked if the "debunking" of the satellite data had been itself
debunked. And yes it has, here is the link verifying this.
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/notebook/essd13aug98_1.htm
There are several things to note.
1. Even if Wentz and Schabel were right the warming is off from the
predicted warming by the GCM's (it should be closer to .10-.15 deg C. per
decade).
2. The "correction" Wentz and Schabel made was too large.
However, the problem with orbital decay was indeed a problem, however the
East-West Drift of the satellites introduced another error that partially
offset the error due to orbital decay.
Steve
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