That's the stratosphere, Buffalo. Whatever website is handing you this stuff is playing you for a fool.
One of the effects of CO2 heat trapping in the lower atmosphere is a cooling of the upper atmosphere in the short term, until the lower atmosphere heats up enough to up-radiate the extra itself and make up for the pass-through deficit.
Now provide factual citation of your premise.
As the air cools at stratosphere level it's density increases and it sinks, and warm air rises, creating circulation, which then brings cold air down into the troposphere, exchanging the warm air for colder air, mitigating the GHG effects, and affecting the climate models.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conte...&volume=316&firstpage=1576&resourcetype=HWCIT
http://atoc.colorado.edu/~seand/headinacloud/?p=135
The guts of the article elaborate on the connection between the stratosphere and troposphere, then use that foundation to emphasize the importance of including stratospheric effects in models. A summary of the main points are given below.
1). Greenhouse Gases (including ozone) can heat or cool the atmosphere depending on the balance between absorption and emission. This balance depends on altitude and temperature.
2). Overall cooling in stratosphere due to carbon dioxide and ozone depletion (ozone is primary culprit in lower stratosphere).
Lower stratosphere radiative changes are mainly latitude dependent, thus cooling at poles and warming in tropics.3). Latitudinal dependence = change in north-south temperature gradient, thus a change in the lower stratospheric wind structure.
4). A change in wind structure will modify atmospheric Rossby waves (which propagate from the troposphere into the stratosphere). These changes in turn affect weather and climate at the Earth’s surface.
Then the article gives some examples of connections between the stratosphere and troposphere to further drive the point home. Next models and their stratospheric limitations are discussed. Again, a summary is given below.
1). Coupled atmosphere-ocean models - many include radiative effects of ozone depletion and ozone depleting substances
but do not include changes in the ozone layer or the dynamics of troposphere/stratosphere coupling.
2).
IPCC models - most have a fixed stratospheric ozone forcing constant, thus dynamical responses to stratospheric radiative changes are not likely captured.
3). Climate models with well-represented stratospheres - accurately account for stratospheric circulations changes due to climate change
but fail to correctly propagate these variations downwards into the troposphere. Most damp out tropospheric responses by using prescribed ocean-surface temperatures.
4). Some coupled chemistry-climate models can simulate ozone changes and how that couples to climate change. According to these models ozone recovery will be accelerated because of the stratosphere cooling due to increasing greenhouse gases.
A cooler atmosphere will slow down chemical reactions which destroy ozone. Pre-1980 levels should be reached by the middle of this century and become thicker beyond 2050 as the stratosphere cools.
Now we have a list of ways the stratosphere influences the troposphere, thus should be included in climate models. So the stratosphere is changed by and changes the meridional temperature gradient, which then affect ozone levels and circulations in the stratosphere. Eventually these changes propagate down into the troposphere, where they are not always accurately accounted for.
The chart below was not produced by Douglass and Christy, it was produced using their data and it clearly shows that in the past four years -- the period corresponding to reduced solar activity -- all of the rise in global temperatures since 1979 has disappeared.
Professor Christy has been in charge of NASA's eight weather satellites that take more than 300,000 temperature readings daily around the globe.
