While Westminster is on holiday, Washington burns and Piers Morgan sweats, occasionally a story comes across your desk that puts things in perspective. NASA, the sort of people that do not get their scientific facts wrong, may not be putting people in space anymore, but are certainly not going quietly, bringing down to earth crucial data from their Terra satellite:

“NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted… the study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.”

Have a look at the BBC website…

Via Yahoo News, original research paper [PDF].