Tag Archives: Climate sensitivity

Model Climate Sensitivity Calculated Directly From Model Results

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [UPDATE: Steven Mosher pointed out that I have calculated the transient climate response (TCR) rather than the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS). For the last half century, the ECS has been about 1.3 times the TCR … Continue reading →

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Why the new Otto et al climate sensitivity paper is important – it’s a sea change for some IPCC authors

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

Yesterday, WUWT was honored to have a guest essay by co-author Nic Lewis on the new Otto et al paper that pegs Transient Climate Response (TCR) at 1.3°C along with Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity at 2.0°C. Lewis , who had previously published … Continue reading →

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New paper shows transient climate response less than 2°C

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

See also: Why the new Otto et al climate sensitivity paper is important – it’s a sea change for some IPCC authors New energy-budget-derived estimates of climate sensitivity and transient response in Nature Geoscience Guest post by Nic Lewis Readers … Continue reading →

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New paper from Otto et al and Nic lewis shows transient climate sensitivity less than 2C

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

UPDATE: this post has been superseded by the new guest essay from Nic Lewis which you can see here: New paper shows transient climate response less than 2°C

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Claim: How the IPCC arrived at climate sensitivity of about 3 deg C instead of 1.2 deg C.

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

UPDATE from Girma: “My title should have been ‘How to arrive at IPCC’s climate sensitivity estimate’ instead of the original” Guest essay by Girma Orssengo, PhD 1) IPCC’s 0.2 deg C/decade warming rate gives a change in temperature of dT … Continue reading →

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The beginning of the end: warmists in retreat on sea level rise, climate sensitivity

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

The forecast: It seems there’s less chance of gloom and doom these days. For sea level rise, now a maximum of about two feet by 2100. As for climate sensitivity, now for the first time ever, we are seeing mentions … Continue reading →

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A compilation of lower climate sensitivities, plus a new one

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

Still Another Low Climate Sensitivity Estimate Guest post By Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger Global Science Report is a weekly feature from the Center for the Study of Science, where we highlight one or two important new … Continue reading →

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Some sense about sensitivity

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

Excerpts from The Register, coverage of the Nic Lewis paper. This graph below from Bishop Hill shows that it isn’t just one paper, but several now that show lower climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2. =============================================================== More and more … Continue reading →

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A Comparison Of The Earth’s Climate Sensitivity To Changes In The Nature Of The Initial Forcing

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

Guest post by Bob Irvine ABSTRACT The Earth’s feedback response to warming is independent of the nature of the forcing that caused that warming. The question I intend to examine is whether the nature of the forcing will have a … Continue reading →

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How well did Hansen (1988) do?

Posted on March 20, 2013 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. The graphic from RealClimate asks “How well did Hansen et al (1988) do?” They compare actual temperature measurements through 2012 (GISTEMP and HadCRUT4) with Hansen’s 1988 Scenarios “A”, “B”, and “C”. The answer (see my … Continue reading →

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Emergent Climate Phenomena

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In a recent post, I described how the El Nino/La Nina alteration operates as a giant pump. Whenever the Pacific Ocean gets too warm across its surface, the Nino/Nina pump kicks in and removes the … Continue reading →

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The Revkin-Gavin debate on lower climate sensitivity

Posted on February 4, 2013 by

Lower climate sensitivity is getting some mainstream discussion. Last week at WUWT, we had this story: BREAKING: an encouraging admission of lower climate sensitivity by a ‘hockey team’ scientist, along with new problems for the IPCC which is now the … Continue reading →

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The yearly lukewarm report

Posted on February 4, 2013 by

UPDATE: Andrew Revkin has a similar story today, see below. Robert Bradley, who runs Master Resource, a blog about energy and climate, gave me unsolicited permission to reprint this article to increase its reach, and I’m happy to do so. … Continue reading →

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Josh on lying for ‘the cause’

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

James Annan writes on his blog here: http://julesandjames.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/a-sensitive-matter.html “Interestingly, one of them stated quite openly in a meeting I attended a few years ago that he deliberately lied in these sort of elicitation exercises (i.e. exaggerating the probability of high sensitivity) … Continue reading →

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Playing the global warming morality card in my local newspaper – a religious experience?

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

Even ad engines see the religious connection to global warming Lately there’s been an ongoing series of rants in my local newspaper, the Chico Enterprise Record, from global warming activists posing as moralists with holier-than-thou views about how noble their … Continue reading →

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BREAKING: an encouraging admission of lower climate sensitivity by a ‘hockey team’ scientist, along with new problems for the IPCC

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

UPDATE: Annan now suggests the IPCC “is in a bit of a pickle”, see below. UPDATE2: Title has been changed to reflect Annan’s new essay, suggesting lying for political purposes inside the IPCC. Also added some updates about Aldrin et … Continue reading →

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Yet another study shows lower climate sensitivity

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

Global warming less extreme than feared? Policymakers are attempting to contain global warming at less than 2°C. New estimates from a Norwegian project on climate calculations indicate this target may be more attainable than many experts have feared. Internationally renowned … Continue reading →

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Does The Effect From The Cause Affect The Cause?

Posted on January 3, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s been a recent paper claiming a long-term correlation between CO2 and sea level, discussed here at WUWT. The paper implies that CO2 controls temperature and thus indirectly sea level. I thought I might follow … Continue reading →

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Bethlehem and the rat-hole problem

Posted on December 25, 2012 by

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley In the closing minutes of the final plenary of the U.N.’s Doha climate summit, when no one else had anything further to add, I spent a few seconds telling the delegates something that the bad … Continue reading →

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Why doesn’t the AR5 SOD’s climate sensitivity range reflect its new aerosol estimates?

Posted on December 19, 2012 by

This article is a detailed complement to Matt Ridley’s Op-Ed today in the Wall Street Journal: Cooling Down the Fears of Climate Change Evidence points to a further rise of just 1°C by 2100. The net effect on the planet … Continue reading →

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