From the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE and the “if warming can’t overcome Nature, is it really there at all?” department.
Amid climate change debates revolving around limited increases in recent global mean surface temperature (GMST) rates, Kevin Trenberth argues that natural climate fluxes – larger than commonly appreciated – can overwhelm background warming, making plateaued rates, or hiatuses, deceiving in significance. After many years of monitoring, it’s clear that the GMST can vary from year to year, even decade to decade; these differences, Trenberth argues, are largely a result of internal natural variability. For example, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), a phenomenon where the Pacific Ocean goes through periods of warming and cooling, can have a very strong impact on the climate by altering ocean currents, convection, and overturning. The PDO results in more sequestration of heat in the deep ocean during the negative phase of the PDO; therefore GMST tends to stagnate during this negative PDO phase, but increases during the positive phase. Indeed, observations and models show that the PDO is a key player in the two recent hiatus periods. Some other examples of causes behind natural variation include El Niño, volcanic activity, and decreased water vapor in the stratosphere. These natural variations are strong enough to mask steady background warming at any point in time, Trenberth argues. As researchers develop and test climate change models, it’s important to expect these variations and plan for them.
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Article #7: “Has there been a hiatus?,” by K.E. Trenberth at National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO.
This typical climate lame-o press release (where getting the PR is more important than the paper itself) gives an incomplete citation. No Journal. No DOI, No URL. I’ve looked all over trying to find the citation in the press release and have come up empty. If anyone knows where it is, please leave a comment
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So, despite all claims, all the science, all the models, all the scare mongering, one of the AGW scientists has simply stated they can’t discern the signal from the noise.
phaedo:
In communications systems engineering a “signal” carries information to us from the past but in control systems engineering this “signal” would have to travel at superluminal speed to carry to us information from the future; thus the signal power and noise power are necessarily nil. As the aim of global warming research is to support control the terms “signal” and “noise” are misplaced.
TRENBERTH- you are clueless. The earth is in an overall cooling trend since the Holocene Optimum , and what we have now is a pause in the overall cooling trend. You have it backwards , but then again that is par for AGW enthusiast.
The real trend below.
Today obliquity is less then it was around 8000 BC , more favorable for glaciation ,as well as Precession being much more favorable for glaciation. .
During the period around the time of 8000 BC , the N.H. experienced Perihelion during the summer less favorable for glaciation in contrast to today when the N.H. experiences Aphelion during the summer.
Based solely on Milankovitch Cycles the earth is much more favorable today for glaciation as opposed to 8000 BC.
Orbit eccentricity if taken into account being more or less neutral during that time span 8000 BC- 2000 AD.
What is interesting is from the Holocene Optimum through today each warm period, those being the Minoan, Roman, Medieval, and the Modern Warm Period just recently, has tended to be cooler then the one previous to the most recent one.
I think the slow moving cycles such as Land /Ocean Arrangements, Milankovitch Cycles , to name two are in a gradual cooling trend with solar variability secondary and primary effects being superimposed upon this gradual cooling cycle. PDO,AMO,ENSO and volcanic activity being superimposed upon all of this to give a further refinement of the temperature trends, which I think might be linked to earth’s LOD, the spin rate of the earth. Also the lunar cycle may be playing a role with the ocean currents, and hence global temperature trends over the shorter term.
Future, random events( terrestrial/extra terrestrial ) must always be taken into some consideration which would be superimposed upon the climate cycle due to all of the items I mentioned in the above.
The upshot being(the random element aside) the climate is heading to a potentially very cold period if solar variability continues to decline along with the geo-magnetic field of the earth . This next cold period has a chance to at least equal Little Ice Age conditions if not exceed them in my opinion.
Salavatore: You said a lot and appear to have covered all the bases. But in the end, whether it’s cooling or it’s warming, no one really knows what will happen and when it will happen.
We are just starting to understand a few of the dozens and dozens of triggers that tie in, overlap, affect, etcetera what goes on in and on this wonderful earth of ours when it comes to weather.
We are amateurs when we second guess nature.
The climate doomers may just succeed in culling the humans from this world. We have spend lavishly to mitigate a hypothetical warming of 0.08 degrees C that can’t be distinguished from just plain good old noise.
And while the world fights this apocalyptic warming that will fry all of us, the possibility of the return to a colder climate for the foreseeable future (maybe a little ice age) through the back door will catch us all by surprise after we have eliminated all of our cheapest and most reliable power sources and replaced them with expensive and intermittent power of the wind and solar variety.
By the time our governments and industries rev up to the colder climate, how many hundreds of millions will perish? Task completed! Or was this always the intent of the powers that be behind the powers that are? Could they be that smart / knowledgeable and have played everyone?
Just wonderin’.
A little more on my views.
The explanation below is for the Little Ice Age and I think it can be applied to the YD, despite the fact Milankovitch Cycles were not that favorable at that time , but the Ice Dynamic for sure was and that changed the whole dynamic of the playing field and is the factor which made abrupt climatic changes to happen so frequently 20000 to 10000 years ago.
The YD was just one of many abrupt climatic changes during that time period.
This theory combined with my input for how the Little Ice Age may have started can also be applied to the YD, with the big difference being the all important Ice Dynamic at the time of the YD ,which made the climate more vulnerable to change with much less forcing.
http://www.leif.org/EOS/2011GL050168.pdf
This article is good but it needs to emphasize the prolonged minimum solar /volcanic climate connection( which it does not mention ), and other prolonged minimum solar climate connections such as an increase in galactic cosmic rays more clouds, a more meridional atmospheric circulation due to ozone distribution/concentration changes (which it does not do ) which all lead to cooler temperatures and more extremes .
In addition they do not factor the relative strength of the earth’s magnetic field.
When this is added to the context of this article I think one has a comprehensive explanation as to how the start of the Little Ice Age following the Medieval Warm Period may have taken place and how like then (around 1275 AD) is similar to today with perhaps a similar result taken place going forward from this point in time.
I want to add the Wolf Solar Minimum went from 1280-1350 AD ,followed by the Sporer Minimum from 1450-1550 AD.
This Wolf Minimum corresponding to the onset of the Little Ice Age.
John Casey the head of the Space and Science Center, has shown through the data a prolonged minimum solar event/major volcanic eruption correlation.
Today, I say again is very similar to 1275 AD. If prolonged minimum solar conditions become entrenched (similar to the Wolf Minimum) accompanied by Major Volcanic Activity I say a Little Ice Age will once again be in the making.
Milankovitch Cycles still favoring cold N.H. summers if not more so then during the last Little Ice Age , while the Geo Magnetic Field is weaker in contrast to the last Little Ice Age.
I would not be surprised if the next Little Ice Age comes about if the prolonged solar minimum expectations are realized in full.
How is it that Climate Science is settled science, but it cannot explain the LIA?
How can someone predict the future if they cannot even predict that past? Even small children recognize that it is harder to predict the future than the past.
Oh wait. Climate science doesn’t “predict” the future. They “project” the future. Where prediction means “what will happen” and projection means “what could happen”.
I project the winning ticket in every future 6-49 lottery will be ‘123456’. Well it could happen. About the same odds as predicting future climate successfully.
Trenberth is saying that year to year variability is to GW as are ocean waves to the tide coming in. Seems an believable idea.
And remember, with waves, every 7th one is a El Niño, I mean, a big one.
Traffydumadore:
Which is which?
Well, since the global war scam is based on partial anomalies for separated sites masqueraded as a global signature. Waves sure doesn’t seem to qualify except that waves are also unique to a location.
Tide sure doesn’t seem to qualify as it is lunar and solar gravity effects upon a large aqueous oceans. As such, tide has some minor effects on shore dependent creatures and estuaries, but zero impact to Polar regions and anywhere more than a couple of miles away from the ocean’s edge.
Ooooh, and ever so frightening 7th El Nino.
And the seventh nino of the seventh cycle of nino’s? Will that be when the world is destroyed? Is that 2050, 2070, 2090 or the frequently threatened 2030?
Un-falsifiable, so that even after 2150, the climate alarmist doom cult will still pray to the AGW for deliverance all the while insisting that honest science should bow to their preferred consensus?
Bag it, daffy traffy, head on down to sou’s all-whoppers-all-of-the-time and order one of her polar sundaes while you browse the online union-suits. (for those not so privileged to know, a union suit is whole body long underwear, preferably with the drop down hamper for comfort.)
traffy,
doesn’t the tide come in, then go out?
what is the wavelength of your GW? and how will you know when the tides are going down and not up. Remember with NOAA/NASA/NCAR/USGS every 7th member is a bozo
year to year variability is to GW
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you have it backwards. Or do we call the pattern of ice ages and interglacials noise? Pretty big noise.
If climatologists were engaged in an attempt at communication it would be appropriate to call it “noise.” However, they are engaged in an attempt at control. There is an asymmetry between the direction from which the information comes to us between communication and control. For communication it comes from the past. For control it comes from the future.
In the former case the information can be carried by a signal traveling at less than or equal to light speed. In the latter case the signal would have tor travel at greater than light speed but this is impossible under relativity theory. Thus, use of the terms “signal” and “noise” is inappropriate in relation to the problem of control.
A scientific theory of climate would convey information to us from the future thus possibly facilitating control of our climate. However, climatologists have spurned development of one in favor of a doomed attempt separating the “signal” from the “noise” through averaging of the signal + noise. The fruits of their labors – the general circulation models – convey no information to us at all.
Terry….you say: ” In the latter case the signal would have tor travel at greater than light speed but this is impossible under relativity theory.”
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You are mistaken in this case, because in the framework of relativity theory, the future does not exist. Consider this example. Just for the moment, make believe (thought experiment) that you can travel faster than light, and you had a super-duper telescope that had infinite resolution. Now, experience an “event.” After this event concludes, travel out into space in any direction at 1.5 times the speed of light. When you’ve traveled several light minutes, point the telescope backwards and aim at the “location” of the event you witnessed. You’ll be able to view it a second time.
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After you conclude this “thought experiment” I ask you …..where can you travel with your telescope to “view” the future? The answer is that the future does not exists in space-time.
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I hope this helps you with your understanding of relativity.
Hi Jerzy,
It is mass-energy that is prohibited by relativity theory from moving at greater than light speed. As information lacks mass-energy, relativity theory does not prohibit movement of it at greater than light-speed. If you see a truck coming at you from the left and turn your steering wheel to the right to avoid a crash you have received information from the future at superluminal speed facilitating control of the outcome of the event.
Jerzy S says:
… in the framework of relativity theory, the future does not exist.
Actually it does, as Harvard physicist Brian Greene has written. But the problem is similar: even though the future and past exist, we can extract no useful information from the future.
Of course, there’s always thiotimoline…
While I like listening to Dr Greene, some of the physicists I’ve chatted with don’t think much.
But, reality isn’t really very real, go read up on Wheelers Delayed Choice experiments, which have been validated in lab experiments.
Think of a present and future where everything is a Schrodinger Cat box, some open and some still closed, where opening one in the present actually alters reality, outside the light cone (spooky action at a distance).
It’s enough to make a person drink 🙂
When I want to educate myself, I read Feynman’s lectures, when I want a headache I read Penrose’s Road to Reality. Wheeler is just plain trippy.
If a future already exists it IMO quickly devolves into one big clouds of probabilities.
dbstealey:
Greene’s claim is contradicted by large sample validation of information theory. It features a pair of state spaces each state of which is a description of a physical system. By observing the state in one of these state-spaces one might gain information about the unobserved state in the other state-space. Thus, for example, by observing the state of the climate system in the present one might obtain information about the state of the climate system in the future.
dbstealey……no, the future does not exist. If it does, use the constraints I used in the “thought experiment” to tell me 1) which direction to point the telescope and/or 2) where to travel to to get a “view” of the future. Otherwise, post a link to Brian Greene’s work, or explain it in your own words.
Jerzy S,
Instead of arguing, why don’t you read some of Dr. Greene’s books?
The Fabric Of The Cosmos is one that explains it. There are several others.
Mike6500,
I agree. What I wrote isn’t contradicted by anything you wrote; the future or future(s) are there, we just can’t do anything about it. There’s no way to extract useful info about the future.
The part that blows my mind is that it appears that we can change reality, and it might be more that we can alter our trajectory through multiple actualized realities.
If you hold that you can’t actually exceed the speed of light, those other realities do exist, that’s the only way opening one of those boxes can change something out of the light cone.
There have been actual experiments that show this could be what is happening at the quantum level, every possibility does exist.
lol, in one of those Mann’s team didn’t didn’t get a Nobel prize…….
Terry, there is no possible manner within General Relativity for “information” to move outside of the mass/energy framework.
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Stealey, if you can’t explain it in your own words, then obviously you don’t understand it.
Jerzy:
Your claim is falsified by the evidence.
If you can view the past, then people in that past can view you…in the future.
Hi Menicholas
Modern telecommunications technology makes it possible for us to view a picture from the past with complete clarity. It should be recognized that in the transmission of this picture information is lost. The clarity is a consequence from use by telecommunications engineers of error correcting codes that make up the lost information. A consequence from use of one of these codes is for more information to be transmitted than is received.
When we try to transmit a picture from the future there is a similar loss of information but without the presence of an error correcting code. Consequently the lost information cannot be regained. Thus though we can view people in our pasts they cannot view us in their futures.
Terry et. al..
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I know you boys don’t like Wikipedia, but read this with regards to the xfer of info FLT
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
(This is getting off-topic. -mod)
Jerzy:
We were in the midst of a discussion of the implications of relativity theory for the notion that there an anthropogenic “signal” lies buried in the natural variability “noise.” It seems to me that quantum mechanics is an unnecessary and inappropriate distraction from discussion of this topic.
(Thank you. -mod.)
Typo “FTL” Faster Than Light
(Reply: This is an article about the Trenberth paper. Please stay on-topic. -mod.)
“Mr. Strzelecki” (AKA: beckleybud) says:
if you can’t explain it in your own words, then obviously you don’t understand it.
Of course, that’s just silly. It really means that you can’t understand it. You asked for a link to the book — I gave you a link. Then you criticized it without even reading the book. That makes your opinion worthless, no? As I stated before, if you don’t agree with Prof. Greene, go argue with him. He teaches at Harvard.
Why are you being so obnoxious? You started these attacks. I never responded, until you said I was “clueless” — twice. And now you say I obviously don’t understand something. How would you know? Your claimed specialty is Sociology. That isn’t very impressive at a site dedicated to the hard sciences. Now, if you will start being polite, I won’t point out that you lack some very basic understanding of this Trenberth article.
As for the basic question: there are no verifiable, testable measurements quantifying man-made global warming (MMGW), so Trenberth is just doing his usual “say anything” routine. That’s his M.O. His specialty is moving the goal posts. He has even demanded that the Scientific Method must be changed, to where skeptics have the onus of proving that MMGW doesn’t exist! That’s how desperate he is. He wants skeptics to have to prove a negative.
Next, as Richard Courtney tried to explain to you, the climate Null Hypothesis states that if no measurable change to the system is shown to exist, then for all practical purposes there has been no change. And Occam’s Razor says the simplest explanation is almost always the right explanation, and that any extraneous variables should be discarded.
The extraneous variable in this case is CO2. Real world observations show conclusively that the predicted fast rise in global T has never happened, therefore the ‘CO2=catastrophic AGW’ conjecture has been falsified. It does not have to be falsified repeatedly. That conjecture is a dead duck. It was wrong.
Nothing is “masking” global warming, as Trenberth asserts. Thousands of well educated scientists have been searching for that hidden global warming for decades, but no one has found it.
So what should we believe? That Trenberth knows it’s there, but he’s not showing us? Or that the ‘dangerous MMGW’ scare has been decisively falsified?
[Snip. Fake email address. ~mod.]
[Snip. Fake email address. ~mod.]
Jerzy:
Yes, I can explain how information can be moved from the future to the present without a mass transfer or an energy transfer at greater than the speed of light. This can be accomplished through the construction of a decoder of a kind of “message.” This “message” is composed of a sequence of the future outcomes of events. Many such decoders have been built, tested and statistically validated.
“Are you confused?”
No. That leaves you.
“appealing to authority?”
Your ‘authority’ is Sociology — an amusing waste of time and .edu resources. It’s easier than Women’s Studies.
“you got to go to journals where real science is done.” heh. Real science? As in realscience.com? As if. Are you unaware unaware of the Climategate revelations exposing the corruption of science in climate journals? If you like, I’ll give you a pointer to some reading materiel. If you read it you will never again accept those “journals” at face value.
“why are you changing the subject?”
The subject is Trenberth. Why are you changing the subject?
Stick to Sociology, Jerzy. The hard sciences are a bit much for you.
Irony at it’s finest 🙂
Hi Mike6500,
Irony at it’s finest 🙂
Amusing catch there, Mike. I was “publishig” everything correctly, with my usual excellent spelling. And that, on top of his “FLT” typo above.
JS is just ‘David Socrates‘ in his newest sockpuppet persona. Pay him no mind. ☺
@dbstealey August 14, 2015 at 3:25 pm: “How would you know? Your claimed specialty is Sociology. That isn’t very impressive at a site dedicated to the hard sciences.”
I find that an astounding claim, that climatology, with all its chaotic systems and adjusted data and proxies, could be claiming to be a hard science. A hard science is where a measurement is itself, without any interpretation or coloring or translation, and where input A gives the same result B, time after time. As such climatology is much more like sociology than it is like physics or chemistry. If it wasn’t so soft, then why is so much of it so iffy and vague and so massively up to individual interpretation? It’s more like reading tea leaves than hard science.
Climatology may some day BE a hard science, but with all of the unknowns, that day is certainly not this day.
A year ago, Andy Revkin in the NY Times:
“There’s been a burst of worthy research aimed at figuring out what causes the stutter-steps in the process — including the current hiatus/pause/plateau that has generated so much discussion.”
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/a-closer-look-at-turbulent-oceans-and-greenhouse-heating/?_r=0
He quotes Dr. Tung as saying once the Atlantic ocean effects are removed, the background warming is 0.08C per decade. Not much to be divided among PDO cycles, solar effects and AGW.
Dr. Tung?
Hey, what ever happened in the final episode? I missed it.
I’m lost. So the warming is so small that our instruments that measure to a NOAA precision of .0000001 degree over the entire planet can get masked out by natural variation, but all of the Earth’s animals are going extinct because they can’t handle the warming. So why are animals so much more sensitive? You’d think living through ice ages that they’d be better adapted.
Then again this might all be about scare tactics for an agenda based ideology and not about science. What does the raw data say again?
You’re got to really wonder about all the plants and animals that they’ve claimed are in danger over the past 20 years….when the temperature didn’t change
97% of all statisticians agree, you can prove anything with statistics.
” What does the raw data say again?”
The raw data shows relatively large swings regionally, and no real discernable trend.
After Trenberth’s 50th or so failed prediction I suppose some people will stop listening to him. What is he up to now, 47?
Trendberth relies on the Pratfall Effect. He has made so many mistake people cannot help but like him because he makes everyone else look good in comparison. It is like taking along an ugly friend when you go out to the bar. They make you look good.
Pratfall effect
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In social psychology, the pratfall effect is the tendency for attractiveness to increase or decrease after an individual makes a mistake, depending on the individual’s perceived competence, or ability to perform well in a general sense. A perceived competent individual would be, on average, more likable after committing a blunder, while the opposite would occur if a perceived average person makes a mistake.
I went to a quiz once, and the question we got stuck on was the capital of Mongolia. We had a dumbass on the team who offered Dili, Bamako, Juba, Beijing, UlanBataar, Kigali
When the answer came – ‘UlanBataar’ , she said – ‘Exactly what I said’
And to be honest, she was 100% right, but 100% useless
Her name was not Trenberth, by the way
Great story EO it really isn’t all that uncommon for a certain kind of character to list a series of possible solutions and once they see which way the wind is blowing step up front to carry the flag!
Apparently “climate variation” can only subtract from the warming signal, it can never add to it.
if PDO and ENSO is due to changes in the prevalent wind direction or pressure gradient difference between eastern and western Pacific that moves a few feet of surface water (which is enough to alter average surface temperatures perceptibly) how does this “results in more sequestration of heat in the deep ocean “? what is his definition of deep?
It’s truly amazing that the warmist scientists can’t admit the theory of CAGW may be wrong or admit that climate sensitivity is lower than is believed at 3 degrees C for doubling CO2
“Internal variability masks climate warming trends.” Well yeah, of course it does, which falsifies the whole global warming myth.
If something can’t be detected, it doesn’t exist.
Or even discuss it as a possible cause of the hiatus
Dr. Trenberth
You must be aware that the internal variability has been masking rise in temperatures long before captain James Cook landed in New Zealand.
Regrettable thing about your pronouncements is that the same internal variability may be in not so distant future masking just as steep decline in the temperatures.
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/CET-NVa.gif
Prosperous and well to do including most of readers here would cope with no difficulty, but many, many more may experience hardships and fuel poverty.
Scientists of your calibre should be not only telling us why they think they are right, but even more importantly warning us why they may be wrong.
these twit have made so many fibs (many of which cannot be described as little or harmless) that they don’t even know which are important to their case anymore, and they don’t even bother to think it through before spouting new ones. The admission of “internal natural variability” completely undermines the case for C-AGW.
The direct effect of CO2 was known to be too weak to have significant impact, let alone the “C” in C-AGW.
So they invented the claim of strong positive feedback. In order for positive feedback to amplify the effect of CO2 but not “natural variability” it is necessary for their to be no natural variability.
This is why the MWP had to be removed, hence the importance of the HS paper.
What do you know, Kevin has begun to understand what the Late John Daley told his cliche over a decade ago.
Truly the definition of expert in Climatology appears to be; Knowing less and less about everything.
Sorry Kevins little cliche, Team IPCC ™
Without reading any of what Trenberth has said (why would you?) I think I might actually agree with him in this case. Looking critically at the Satelite data, all I can see is the 60 year cycle and a 7 and a half year cycle both of which have such large amplitudes, the long term trends (out of the Ice Age) are just not detectable. The trend out of the Little Ice Age sits at .06 degrees C per decade – and is swamped by the plus or minus .4 degree C “noise” of the shorter wave length oscillations.
I dont think anyone could make a statistically significant estimation of a long-term trend out of the Satelite data that we have as yet.
A Crooks:
However, control over the climate cannot be achieved through discrimination of the signal from the noise the signal power and noise power both being nil. See my response to phaedo for justification.
The satellite data is only 30 years old. I’d be hesitant about declaring any signal much longer than 10 to 15 years in it. We need about 100 more years of data before we can use it to prove a 60 year signal.
MarkW:
You are repeating the error of IPCC climatologists when they refer to an anthropogenic “signal” and natural variation “noisc.” For use in controlling the climate this “signal” would have to travel at greater than light speed but under relativity theory this it cannot do.
Dr. Trenberth obviously did not receive the memo from NOAA stating that the Pause/Hiatus in global warming does not exist. When are all the nice climate scientists going to actually have a consensus as to what is really happening with the global climate?
I remember telling young tax lawyers to never pretend that you know something. “I don’t know” is better than being completely wrong.
Too many warmists have never learned that.
Enough arm waving to generate lift.
Enough to lift his sagging assumptions?
Trenberth writes:
http://i58.tinypic.com/2zsqyj5.png
Trenberth’s reference 19. Data from http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global, downloaded on 30 June 2015.
The hiatus in warming will soon be over. The majority of the warming in the last 150 years was caused by solar cycle changes rather than the increase in atmospheric CO2. The solar cycle has been interrupted.
There is a forcing change due to the increase in atmospheric CO2 however that forcing change is almost completely offset by the increase in convection.
Hot air rises which causes colder air to fall. An increase in greenhouse gases causes an increase in convection. The so called no ‘feedback’ calculation for a doubling of atmospheric CO2 made two incorrect assumptions:
1) It froze the lapse rate rather than increased lapse rate and
2) it did not take into account the fact the absorption spectrum of water and CO2 overlap (the overlap and the fact that 70% of the planet is covered by water greatly reduces the amount of warming in the lower atmosphere particularly in the tropical region.)
correcting either of the above incorrect assumptions reduces the warming due to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 to from 1.2C no feedbacks to 0.1C to 0.2C no feedbacks. 0.1C to 0.2C is insufficient to cause any feedback increase so the no feedback warming is the ballpark the same as the feedback calculation.
There is greenhouse gas warming due to atmospheric CO2, however, the greenhouse effect saturates due to the increased lapse rate and due the over lap of the absorption spectrum of water and CO2. This explains why there are periods of millions of years in the paleo record when atmospheric CO2 is high and the planet is cold and vice verse.
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.ca/2015/07/collapse-of-agw-theory-of-ipcc-most.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B74u5vgGLaWoOEJhcUZBNzFBd3M/view?pli=1
Transcript of a portion of Weart’s interview with Hansen which discuss the lapse rate ‘fudge’. Come on man. Hansen froze the lapse rate to create any significant warming.
Redoing the double atmospheric CO2 level, no feedback calculation with an atmospheric model that takes into account the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere and the radiation effects of water/CO2 absorption overlap reduces the surface forcing for a doubling of atmospheric CO2 from 3.7 watts/meter^2 to 1.1 watts/meter^2 ( a factor of four). The 1.1 watts/meter^2 increase in forcing will result in surface warming of ball park 0.1C to 0.2C which is so small, the no feedback case is the same as with feedback case.
Check out figure 2 in this paper.
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0469%281982%29039%3C2923%3ARHDTIC%3E2.0.CO%3B2
William,
As far as I know the first person to point out the effect of enhanced convection in causing the entrainment of colder air into descending columns so as to offset any CO2 surface warming beneath ascending columns was me, here:
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/erasing-agw-how-convection-responds-to.html
That is a basic principle of meteorology but I had never previously seen it applied to the AGW debate.
A more detailed version showing more clearly what happens at tropopause and surface is in hand.
The critical insights were to separate the effects of CO2 into equal and opposite thermal effects in ascending and descending columns and into equal and opposite effects on the lapse rate slopes above and below the point of hydrostatic balance.
By doing that one can explain how the thermal consequence of radiative capability within an atmosphere can be negated by convective adjustments without altering average surface temperature.
It is unbelievable that countries are being forced to spend trillions of dollars on green scams that do not work (do not significantly reduce the amount of anthropogenic CO2 emitted if the CO2 input to build the green scams and the reduce grid efficiency due to reduction in combined cycle natural gas power (combined cycle power plants are 20% more efficient than single cycle power plants but require 10 hours to start and hence cannot be turned on/off/on/off/on/off/and so on and more cycling of single cycle power plants is included) when it is obvious that there is no CAGW problem to solve, the entire premise scientific premise for CO2 is incorrect.
1) The canonical Hansen and friends no feedback forcing calculation assumes/assumed there is no increase in lapse rate due to the increase in CO2 for the double atmospheric CO2 1-dimensional calculation. That assumption is ridiculous, physically impossible. There must be an increase in lapse rate.
2) The 12-18 mm H2O continuum absorption was purposely neglected in most studies (including the canonical Hansen and friends no feedback CO2 1-dimensional calculations) affects of increased CO2. Ignoring the overlap of absorption of water and CO2 is also ridiculous, an obvious scam to create any significant warming.
I and many, many others had assumed that there is some warming due to the increase in atmospheric CO2 and the hiatus in warming was due to planet resisting rather than amplifying forcing changes by an increase in cloud cover in the tropical region.
The corollary to what appears to be a physical fact that the increase in atmospheric CO2 could not and did not cause, the warming in the last 150 years, is that solar cycle modulation of planetary cloud cover and cloud properties caused the warming.
If the solar cycle caused the warming in the last 150 years, the warming can very, very, rapidly be reversed.
Big surprise, there is cyclic warming and cooling in the paleo record that correlates with solar cycle changes. There is now in your face observational evidence that the solar cycle has been interrupted. Bingo, what is coming next is significant in your face cooling.
The cooling has started. Hudson bay sea ice this summer has the highest in 20 years. Canadian ice breakers were required to clear a path for commercial shipments of grain out of the Hudson Bay. Greenland Ice sheet seasonal melting was two months late and has now ended. There is a 200 Gt increase in mass on the Greenland Ice sheet. Arctic multiyear ice has increased 30%. The Arctic is cooling.
What is holding back the cooling are coronal holes on the sun.
The coronal holes create persistent regular solar wind bursts which creates a charge imbalance in the ionosphere which in turn causes there to be an electric current movement in the atmosphere which removes cloud forming ions. There has recently been a string of coronal holes on the sun. The electroscavening effect explains why even though GCR is the highest ever recorded at this point in the solar cycle (GCR, galactic cosmic rays, mostly high speed protons are blocked/defected by the solar heliosphere. The solar heliosphere’s extent and amount of magnetic flux is dependent on the strength of the solar cycle. The high speed protons strike the earth’s atmosphere creating cloud forming ions.)
The coronal holes however are visibly now starting to shrink and/or move up to high latitude regions of the sun where they no longer affect the earth.
There is a second more complicate mechanism that is inhibiting cooling which is the reason for the persistent high pressure region of the coast of North America. That is a temporary effect.
It appears the question is not if the planet will cool but rather when the cooling will become so obvious that there will be a public and media response (Panic. How is it possible for there to be so much cooling? We have been told over and over that a gas that is necessary for life on this planet and is injected into commercial greenhouses to increase yield and to reduce growing must be stopped to protect against dangerous warming) which will force there to be an official response from the cult of CAGW scientists.
The climate consensus gave ENSO and other oscillations no consideration before the pause. They were forced to consider natural variations when the protracted pause started whittling away at CO2 global warming theory. Does this guy not understand that the longer the pause lasts, the smaller climate sensitivity has to be? The mental stress caused by the pause sent the fringe with scruples in clinical depression (classic psychological D’Nilef was displayed when they said the depression was because no one would listen and they had devoted a life time watching the disaster coming. The mind is a wonderful thing. It is tuned to recognize reality. If we don’t accept reality, it makes us sick).
Karl new that the pause was going to bring the whole fantasy house of cards down so, holding his nose and mindful that with climategate, everyone just pretended it didn’t really show anything about them and they brazened it through, he egregiously doctored the record out of a pause. His supporters never even blinked – they didn’t want the pause either – it’s already old hat.
Trenberth hasn’t shown himself to be brilliant but he’s not stupid. He’s sliding over slowly, retarded by fear of reprisals from the team. Even criticizing Karl for what he did moves him to the right. Don’t forget he was ‘heard’ in the climategate emails saying it was a travesty that they could show no warming for 10 years or so. He therefore is very cognizant of what is happening to the theory – he couldn’t let go for a while but watch! If the cooling exacerbates over many more years (we may get a blip with the weird El Nino but..) he will also let go of the rapid warming of the 90s as all CO2. His present argument doesn’t make sense if he doesn’t also see that natural variation bumped up those temperatures, too. He will and then he becomes a sceptic. He will become an evangelist for skepticism when he finally lets go enough.
He may know already, (although I don’t thinks so), like these “new” oscillation phenomena he’s “discovered”, that negative feedback is a prominent feature in virtually all systems and this would have been the first consideration of a real scientist of climate or an engineer. Negative feedbacks are common, positive not so much! Newtonian laws of motion, back EMF in electric motors, turbulence in stream flow that retards the flow (indeed I think one day we will define this as a classic negative feed back along with all of chaotic systems), Le Chatelier principle in chemistry that says: if you perturb chemical equilibrium by changing a component (temperature, pressure, concentration…) the equilibrium will move in the direction to counteract the change (partially), feedback in sound systems, friction, the effect of prices on economic equilibrium, the list is almost endless.
A hypothesis is based on observations. This seems to be more along the lines of a “guess.”
A person observes something happening. He comes up with a theory of what caused the thing observed. That is he says, I think this is why it happened. At times that “think” is accompanied by lots of mathematics and discussions of known physics, but it is still a guess. Which is why we continue to call it a theory until such time as experimentation and observation either prove or disprove the “guess”.