Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see update at end]
Over at the marvelous KNMI website, home of all kinds of climate data, they’re just finishing their transfer to a new server. I noticed that they’ve completed the migration of the Climate Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) data to the new server, so I downloaded all of the model runs.
I thought I’d take a look at the future scenario that has the smallest increase in CO2 emissions. This is the “SSP126” scenario. KNMI has a total of 222 model runs using the SSP126 scenario. Figure 1 shows the raw model runs with the actual temperatures.
Figure 1. Raw results, 222 model runs, CMIP6 models, SSP126 scenario
So here, we have the first problem. The various models can’t even decide how warm the historical period was. Modeled 1850-1900 mean temperatures range all the way from twelve and a half degrees celsius up to fifteen and a half degrees celsius … hardly encouraging. I mean, given that the models can’t replicate the historical temperature, what chance do they have of projecting the future?
Next, I took an anomaly using the early period 1850-1880 as the anomaly baseline. That gives them all the same starting point, so I could see how they diverged over the 250-year period.
Figure 2. Anomalies, 222 model runs, CMIP6 models, SSP126 scenario
This brings up the second problem. As the density of the results on the right side of the graph shows, the models roughly divide into three groups. Why? Who knows. And by the time they’re out to the end of the period, they predict temperature increases from what is called the “pre-industrial” temperature ranging from 1.3°C up to 3.1°C … just which number are we supposed to believe?
Finally, the claim is that we can simply average the various models in the “ensemble” to find the real future temperature. So I compared the average of the 222 models to observations. I used an anomaly period of 1950-1980 so that the results wouldn’t be biased by differences or inaccuracies in the early data. And I used the Berkeley Earth and the HadCRUT surface temperature data. Figure 3 shows that result.
Figure 3. Global surface temperature observations from Berkeley Earth (red) and HadCRUT (blue), along with the average of the 222 climate models.
This brings us to the third and the biggest problem. In only a bit less than a quarter-century, the average of the models is already somewhere around 0.5°C to 0.7°C warmer than the observations … YIKES!
And they’re seriously claiming they can actually use these models to tell us what the surface temperatures will be in the year 2100?
I don’t think so …
I mean seriously, folks, these models are a joke. They are clearly not fit to base trillion-dollar public decisions on. They can’t even replicate the past, and they’re way wrong about the present. Why should anyone trust them about the future?
Here on our forested hillside, rain, beautiful rain, has come just after I finally finished pressure-washing all the walls, including the second story … timing is everything, the rain is rinsing it all down.
My warmest regards to all, and seriously, if you believe these Tinkertoy™ climate models are worth more than a bucket of bovine waste products, you really need to sit the climate debate out …
w.
Update: Rud Istvan, a valued commenter, pointed me to look at the INM climate model since it agrees well with the observations. When I took a look, I found an excellent example of the fact that past performance is no guarantee of future success …
Figure 4. Model runs from two versions of the INM-CM model.
As you can see, they both do an excellent job hindcasting the past, but give totally different versions of the future.
Further Reading: In researching this I came across an excellent open-access study entitled “Robustness of CMIP6 Historical Global Mean Temperature Simulations: Trends, Long-Term Persistence, Autocorrelation, and Distributional Shape“. It’s a very thorough in-depth examination of some of the many problems with the models. TL;DR version: very few of the model results are actually similar to real observational data.
In addition, there’s a good article in Science magazine entitled Earning The Public’s Trust on why people don’t trust science so much these days. Spoiler Alert: climate models get an honorable mention.
As Always: When you comment please quote the exact words that you are discussing. This avoids many of the misunderstandings that plague the intarwebs.
Great post!
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That graph doesn’t cover the last 150 years!
You’re right. According to the Berkeley Earth plot, current temperatures would be about 1° C higher, just about the same as the spike of the Medieval Warming.
http://berkeleyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/land-and-ocean-summary-large.png
Good report, Willis. The Reality Checks are starting to add up, which is against the CAGW claim that “the science is settled”. This calls for an adult beverage.
Ron, I thought you said this calls for an adult average. That too.
In my world of adult beverages there two kinds of models, ones you look at but pretend you don’t, and the others I’m not bothered with because they have no legs to stand on.
Hey, Vuk! As much as I dissemble, my wife knows when I look. She is secretly pleased when I return to look at her.
This calls for adults using torches and pitchforks.
Sadly, the Politics are fixed (or settled, if you prefer).
Only in one party in the US. Unfortunately, it sounds like there are no alternatives in most other countries.
Willis as usual an excellent article. I always convert all data to absolute temperatures, in other words a 1 deg C variation is just over 1%. Just another way of looking at things.
Absolute temperature?
As in Kelvins?
Kelvin uses a scale where 274.15°K units, to which are added Celsius temperatures.
1° divided by 274.15° is 0.3647%. Adding in the daytime maximum temperature range brings 274.15 up to 330.85°K. Reducing each 1°K to 0.30%
If you plan to stick solely with Celsius scale, then that scale must included the entire scale of measured temperatures on Earth.
i.e., Somewhere around -93.2°C low to plus 56.7°C; with a measured Earth range of 150°C. Which makes 1°C divided by 150°C as 0.6667%.
That’s without calculating for pressure and volume
Yes I meant Kelvins. My error to say 1%. Thanks for correcting me.
Best wishes, Gerald
Climate agenda politics is not unlike Putin politics and radical Islam–moderation and introspection are unacceptable endeavors.
They are alike in another way as well…
They’re based on the precept that they shouldn’t be proven wrong but rather should be proven right
Willis included near the end his post: “I mean seriously, folks, these models are a joke.”
Yup. We’ve been pointing that out for many years here at WUWT, yet the politicians and other elites are using them as gospel for their agendas.
BTW, for those who aren’t aware of this, Geert Jan van Oldenburg of KNMI created and maintained the KNMI Climate Explorer. He was very helpful to me for many years when I using the KNMI Climate Explorer for my blog posts that were cross posted here at WUWT. We exchanged plenty of emails. Sadly Geert Jan passed away last year. Rest in Peace, Geert Jan.
Regards,
Bob
Sadly, the Dutch people believe in the KMNI.
You cannot tell them that global warming by man is a myth.
https://breadonthewater.co.za/2022/03/08/who-or-what-turned-up-the-heat/
Sorry Bob
I borrowed a phrase from you. It is only a blog post and I don’t make any money on it. Hope you don’t mind.
They may WISH we believed them, but a running joke is to expand “KNMI” to “Kan Niet Meten Instituut” (Can Not Measure Institute) for the number of times they can’t even predict tomorrow’s weather right!
Bob,
Models a joke? Much worse. As I see it they are part of the greatest “legalized” fraud scheme in the world. Sadly those responsible will be dead and buried when the full impact is felt by their grandchildren – unless their children wake up suddenly and put a spoke in the climate alarmist wheel.
Thanks, Bob, I was unaware that Geert Jan had died, sorry to hear it. But his excellent work lives on.
w.
I did not know that and appreciate being informed. KNMI is indeed a rich source of information. I only contacted Geert twice but he was obliging and informative both times.
And this comparison is for the smallest CO2 increases. If these run high compared to the measured data, can one assume that the high emissions scenarios would run implausibly hot? ( not to mention failing to even come close to actual temperature)
You do not need to to assume; you can make your own assessment.
Any model that shows an increasing SST trend in the Nino34 region over the last 40 years is wrong – they are are all wrong. The actual CO2 in this century is tracking the highest CO2 scenario SSP585.
Any model that has the tropical west Pacific SST (150E to 180E, 5S to 5N) exceeding 30C on an annual basis is wrong – most fail this test.
Any model that does not balance precipitation and evaporation over a period of a few years is wrong – on average all CMIP5 models are wrong on this test but some individual models do balance.
But aren’t HadCRUT and BEST adjusted from measured data. Therefore, they are not data?
Worse still aren’t BEST based on a computer model?
At least according to Mosher.
Quote “in stead we use all raw data. And then we we build a model to predict
the temperature.”
How much would you pay for this used car? 20, 30 50 Trillion dollars?
Yes, very clear.
Perhaps Nick Stokes will have a comment? Be interested to read it.
Because this really raises the same old question: why not pick the model that has most accurately matched current temps given historical data inputs, and go with it? Why keep on using or promoting or publishing ones that are clearly not fit for purpose? Still less averaging them with ones that do seem to be fit for purpose.
And if the reply is, we don’t know, and that fit to present temps is not a valid criterion (which is what I think was said the last time I raised this), then the logical problem is even greater. If the high and the low and points between are all equally plausible, then our ignorance is profound and we have no guides for any policies from these models.
Its like saying Covid could kill 2% of the population or maybe 50%, and either estimate or points between are equally valid. And so we have to do total lockdown for the indefinite future. Just in case.
No, we have to figure out which is the more accurate model as tested against observations, and then use it. Its very inconvenient that its Russian, but some good things have come out of Russia. Tolstoy, for instance… Maybe their model is one of these rare sparks of light in the darkness.
The reason not to pick a single model is political, not scientific. The process of picking one model would cause much debate on how to define the merit of each model. This debate would detract from other climate work. Secondly, the research groups of the models not selected would be likely to loose much of their funding, which would make the debate on how to determine model quality even more fierce.
Why not award future funding based on past performance?
Because you can tweak models to replicate any historical data you choose. Wag that elephant’s trunk, CliSciFi profiteer.
The average of junk is still junk. GIGO
The real question why are any of these models funded? They don’t work.
They don’t work if the goal is accurately predict future climate impacts based on today’s actions. They work great if the goal is gain power today at the expense of being proven wrong in the future.
That is my definition of unethical behavior: Trading a long-term loss for a near-term gain.
See how Leftist politics corrupts CliSciFi (and every other facet of society)?
Plus the teams who built and used the models that were not selected would have their feelings hurt.
Plus, you’d have to do this reasonableness test every time there is a new CMIP, as all the models get changed in between.
If my understanding is correct, the models are tweaked for past climate therefore I’m not sure that’s a good measure of a model’s reliability or accuracy.
But the models should be tested for accuracy. A climate model is a hypothesis. That is, if the climate works the way the model says then the measured climate and the model results will agree. I don’t know of any model that passes this test.
In real science, an hypothesis it tested. If the results aren’t what the hypothesis predicts then the hypothesis is wrong.
I wrote about this here years ago in guest post ‘The trouble with climate models’. The CFL constraint on numerical solutions means that modeling on correct phenomenological scales (2-4km) means they are about seven orders of magnitude computationally intractable. So they have to be parameterized. The parameters are tuned two different ways to best hindcast 30 years. That process drags in the attribution problem between anthropogenic and natural change. A good detailed discussion is in old guest post ‘Why models run hot’.
[Link to Rud’s excellent post is here. w.]
Rud, I added a link to your post. Well done.
w.
Willis,
Rud’s post was excellent, the first line of which is this:
“EPA administrator Pruitt wants to “Red Team” the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) consensus best reflected in the IPCC assessment reports (AR).”
Obviously, the Deep State was concerned enough by this guy that they ran him out of town within 18 months on the basis of allegations, e.g., flying frst class, that would characterize him as a complete amateur by the standards of the Brandon and Clinton families.
It is indeed an excellent post. So what is a valid method of comparing different models?
Or is it really like brokerage performance, that the underlying process is a random walk and so any agreement of any particular forecast with a series of events is just coincidence and so no guide to the future, when it will inevitably be falsified?
Can you run the different models with the same parameters, and if so, do they then differ much?
michel March 16, 2022 10:45 am
We don’t want to do that for the reason that the ads for brokerage houses in the US are required by law to state …
“Past Performance Is No Guarantee Of Future Success”
w.
Do they not look at tree ring data that best matches the thermometer record then reckon that set is the most accurate?
It has been shown that tree ring data does not reflect temperatures. For example, all of the Hockey Stick charts truncate tree ring results at or before 1960. Tree ring “reconstructions” show that temperatures started to decline in the 1960s and continued to decline through the 1980s.
I was having a dig at how it’s logical in one case but not the other.
Is it possible to run the different models with the same parameters and thus see what the differences are between them? What difference there is in their forecasts. Has anyone done this?
Killing 2% of the population would be a monumental disaster.
Observed reality triumphs models 7 days a week:
The below graph shows the average annual incoming sunshine at a number of Swedish cities during a 40-year period. The dotted line shows the average and its progress over the last 40 years. The increase over the 40 years is approx 20 %, linear.
(Source: The National Wheather Service, SMHI)
I bet this curve correlates to a very high extent with the Mauna Loa CO2 curve and the average global temperature curve. Mystery to be solved.
Rossmore, no mystery there: there is some short time correlation between temperature and CO2 rate of change, that is the variability around the CO2 trend of about +/- 1.5 ppmv and both curves go up. The latter is 90% human caused, 10% temperature caused, as the ratio between sea surface temperature and CO2 increase is not more than 12-16 ppmv/K according to Henry’s law. All the rest is human…
If the temperature increase is caused by more solar input or reverse, that still is an open question…
Lol…and the CO2 keeps rising 😉
Reduction in cloud cover at low level – stratocumulus responding to fewer CCNs as fewer breaking waves. Lower albedo of oceans and seas. Both caused by oil/lipid/surfactant pollution, including the feeding of diatoms with agricultural nitrate and dissolved silica. Reduced evaporation.
The effect is seen clearly in Black Sea surface temperature trends and in particular the Sea of Marmara. Baltic. Bits of Med. Red Sea. Lake Michigan.
HTH
JF
The Northern Hemisphere has been getting increasing sunlight for the last 500 years. The increase in the boreal spring is greater than the reduction in the boreal autumn so a net increase. This is the result of orbital precession and will continue for the next 10,000 years.
The actual top of atmosphere sunlight change at 60N is down since 1980 so reducing cloud will be the cause of more surface sunlight. That is a consequence of the reducing net precipitation over the northern land masses during the boreal summer.
You seem to be claiming atmospheric processes affect TOA insolation. Am I missing something? BTW, in case people don’t know, Engelbeen is the best CO2 scientist to lurk around these parts. I’d like to hear a more thorough explanation. –AGF
Nope – perihelion is trending later. It was last before the austral summer solstice over 500 years ago. So the sun’s most intense view is shifting from the Southern Hemisphere toward the Northern Hemisphere. It will reach peak intensity over the NH in about 10,000 years.
The change in ToA sunlight at 60N since 1980 is very small. It would not be the cause of more surface sunlight at 60N. However the net precipitation over the northern land masses has declined during the boreal summer over the last 50 years. However Sweden is one of the few places in Europe where summer precipitation has not declined.
There has been air quality improvements in Sweden that are the likely cause of increased surface sunlight.
Willis,
Fig. 1 appears to have a trace with an average of about 15°C from 1850 to about 1975. It is gone in Fig. 2. Both figures have a triple-trace after about 2000. What happened to the pre-1975 trace?
Thanks, Clyde. One is actual temperatures. The second is anomalies around the 1850-1880 average temperature. Very different things.
w.
I’m afraid I don’t understand why the triple trace shows up in both figures, but the double trace in Fig. 1 disappears. Can you be more explicit than “Very different things.”?
More global warming…
JMA: “WEAKENED JET STREAM LED TO JAPAN’S RECORD COLD AND SNOWY WINTER”; SAUDI ARABIA BREAKS 1985 LOW TEMPERATURE RECORD — YET SCIENTISTS ARE “ALREADY CERTAIN” 2022 WILL BE AMONG TOP 10 HOTTEST YEARS ON RECORD…
March 16, 2022 Cap Allon
JMA: “WEAKENED JET STREAM LED TO JAPAN’S RECORD COLD AND SNOWY WINTER”
This winter was far colder and snowier than usual across the majority of Japan, which, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), was due in no small part to “westerly winds snaking in a southward direction, making it easier for cold air to flow into the country”.
The will homogenized temperature record pas and present until they get the answer they want.
That’s why I use UAH satellite temperature data. I trust Roy Spencer and John Christy completely. All the others – not much. I am quite sensitive about this – if anyone slags Spencer or Christy, we’ll go “Hockey Rules”. *
*Hockey Rules”
Ever wonder why Canadians are so polite, and don’t jabber at each other like some other cultures do? It’s because we play by Hockey Rules – if someone is rude, we don’t jabber at them – we just punch them in the face.
“Everyone’s got a plan, until you punch them in the face.” – Mike Tyson 🙂
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– John Adams,1775
It can be regained. Unfortunately the process usually involves lots of bloodshed.
Yes. So be it.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/07/14/biden-administration-working-to-undermine-america/#comment-3292134
“Never give up! Never give up! Never give up!”
– Sir Winston Churchill
Millions of good men fought and died to preserve your liberty.
Stand your ground against this tyranny.
Stand and fight!
This is THE hill to die on.
Yours aye,
Allan MacRae
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And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd—
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
– William Shakespeare, Henry V
More accurate to say “climate models aren’t” as they do not model anything at all.
ALL model error bars go from Absolute Zero to Voyager 1.
Actually, its pretty cold on Voyager 1 right now, according to NASA, ” … The spectrometer is likely operating at a temperature somewhat lower than minus 79 degrees Celsius, or minus 110 degrees Fahrenheit, but the temperature detector does not go any lower. …” Other parts of the spacecraft may be warmer if the heater in those parts are still running.
https://scitechdaily.com/nasas-voyager-1-spacecraft-operating-at-coldest-temperature-ever/
Politicians have long maintained that they can predict the future. It has only been recently that they also claim that they can control the weather.
In reality, all politicians can do is to take your earnings and spend them on something for you or someone else, under the threat of force. Whether you think you are getting a good deal or not is where the rubber hits the road. Why anyone thinks you will ever get a good deal from purveyors of fantasy is beyond me. They are either lying or foolish; neither one is a quality that is noted as a hallmark of good leadership.
The purpose of the models is entirely political and they fulfil that purpose admirably.
Well said Uncle. Keep the money flowing’.
The data are obviously skewed. If the lower two traces represent models that are different from the top trace, then there is a strong suggestion that the models creating the two lower traces are more skilled than the one’s producing the top trace.
Models don’t agree with observations? No problem. Change the observations.
As Tony Heller has demonstrated, that’s exactly what has been done. It used to be excused by calling it “data homogenization” but now the correct term is “climate justice”.
Now Dr. Roy, don’t be confusing the good people … you and those dang fact thingies are getting the entire field into trouble.
w.
“Change the observations.”
They have already tried that.
What Willis’s graph call “observations” from Berkley and HadCrut are really a series of very tainted urban readings, fabricated, infilled, adjusted and smeared together in a vain attempt try to keep up with the models.
Their “adjusted” data at individual sites has very little resemblance to any real data.
Berkeley and HadCRUT are science fiction.
Roy Spencer:
[snip Blathering activist crap insults followed by links to activist screeds]
https://www.facingsouth.org/2011/09/climate-science-contrarian-roy-spencers-oil-industry-ties.html
And…
https://grist.org/article/they-blinded-me-with-bad-science/?fbclid=IwAR2bv_CHYbtN89p4LQL7Tg9qQ2Ok32eHv2hCrsDKKv2AnWxwm-la6BCGy3c
And…
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/12/science/earth/errors-cited-in-assessing-climate-data.html?fbclid=IwAR19TZgOBJH2_uUQK4hIdaktF70Db1ThGDv0Zb3Pw5vGYVb0BgSBTlepkrI
Roy, if any of these are off-base, just let me know and I’ll happily remove the offending material and apologize for the trouble.
Wow, Barry thinks linking ad hominem articles from 2005, 2008 and 2011 in 2022 is essential current news.
That ought to tell you all you need to know about Barry. Hung by his own petard.
Blown up by his own petard.
A petard is a bomb or a firework. “Hoisted by his own Petard”, is the saying.
BareRant appears to be a brainwashed green who is unable to process any information that counters his climate religion. Just this morning I called him on his lie about grid-scale backup batteries but I have no doubt that he’ll repeat the lie again.
Joe Romm.. one of the biggest losers of the AGW climate scammers. Seriously.. The guy is a nothing-burger. Purely sour grapes from his utter defeat.
Then Revkin.. a scientific non-entity propagandist. Paid journalist hack of the anti-CO2 wind and solar lobby.
You really have to get your hate-mail from people of some consequence.
The sad thing is that Barry has absolutely no idea how badly he has embarrassed himself.
Once upon a time, Barry was quite adamant that only peer reviewed studies from reputable journals were worthy of quoting.
I guess that standard was only for one only fossil fuel shills were required to follow.
For the great Barry, anything he agreed with was good enough.
No matter how wrong or poorly sourced, as long as it supported what Barry was trying to preach, he would cite it.
Yes he started out that he was all about science and then it was shown what he was saying was not the science. Then everything became oil industry shills and now we have the full descent into dribbling rambling rants.
Barry Anthony: as a favor, I served on the Marshall Institute’s board of directors after Tom Clancy served his term. I received no income from that post. I don’t recall even influencing any of the organization’s decisions. It was a surprisingly poorly funded think tank (compared to, say, Heritage Foundation), which was finally dissolved from lack of support. Dont be spreading rumors about things you are not informed about.
[snip: activist lying libelous crap]
I could go on in considerable detail, but, frankly, I highly doubt the admins will let even this much of a reply through unmolested by their redacting.
[yup]
Poor, poor Barry, he just can’t accept that the lies he’s been told to believe aren’t true.
The admins are redacting my posts over and over and you think I’m the one that’s been lied to? Think about that for a minute. Does that sound like something an organization with Truth within their mission statement would do?
Barry Anthony March 16, 2022 6:05 pm
If the posts were as full of vile ad hominems as yours usually are, of course they’d do it. They’d be negligent not to.
Stick to the science, leave the personal attacks 100% out of your posts … you might be surprised.
Or not, since by now you’ve totally poisoned the well.
w.
“Stick to the science, leave the personal attacks 100% out of your posts”
The science doesn’t support Barry’s position and he gets angry when this is pointed out to him.
I think eliminating personal attacks is a “bridge too far” for Barry. Of course, he could prove me wrong by being nice, but I’m not holding my breath waiting for that to happen.
Point out one claim of mine that isn’t backed by references to credible, independent, and peer-reviewed research. I’ll wait.
Meanwhile where is your downloaded effort of the data Willis giving you to see if what he posted is honest and viable, we are watching for you to do it.
If you think Union of Concerned Scientists are credible, independent and peer-reviewed, I feel sorry for who ever claims to have educated you.
If you feel Forbes magazine is credible, independent and peer-reviewed, I feel sorry for who ever gave birth to you.
None of your sources meet up with the criteria you have set up.
We don’t have any problems approving opposite viewpoints from anyone INCLUDING YOU, the problem is your nasty mouth where the first couple sentences to a paragraph and sometimes more sprinkled in the rest of the comment of heavy personal attacks ad homs and more it is too much anger hates and attacking people is why you are getting a lot of moderator attention.
I have sent whole comments to the trash bin because of it which is WHY you are now in Moderation meaning your comments needs Moderator approval before the public sees it.
Stop being so angry then your comments can improve!
Now reduced to whining and crying…
Google…Facebook…Twitter just to name a f e w
Removing insults doesn’t prove that you aren’t quoting lies.
Even you should be able to figure that out.
Your clown act is boring.
And never once questioning the massive funding that these AGW shills get to promote the agenda.
One can support the oil, gas, coal industries that have built and continue to build and support modern society..
Or one can choose to join the parasitic wind and solar brigade, sucking on the tax-payer and destroying western energy security.
We know which one Barry will choose.. always the parasite.
What have you got against science, Barry? What has it done to be treated so badly by you?
It has not bowed down to his superior intellect and wisdom.
This rather reminds me of St. Fauci announcing to Congress … “Hear me and obey; I am science!”
How do so many on the Left become infected with the Dunning Kruger bug?
“his superior intellect and wisdom”
Neither of which exist.
But you will never convince him of that.
Speaking of “adjustments” does anyone know what happened with USCRN.
There seems to be a strange change in the data in the last month or so.
Here is a graph of the old, (blue) v new (red)
And here is a graph of the alterations.
Those adjustments seem to have metronomic regularity. It must be some algorithm applied en banc. It doesn’t seem to be carefully considered on a case-by-case basis at all. And something very funky seems to be going on around 2016.
The “best” measuring systems in the world require adjustments?
I suspect they have found a rouge site and removed it from the whole of the data.
Still, people like Anthony and Roy need to be aware of it and hopefully chase up the reason.
Not sure how best to draw it to there attention.
Moderators ?
How in the world does one get a “rouge site” when each site has triple redundancy?
Not sure, was only a suggestion.
But something “strange” has happened.
That “difference” graph is quite unusual, and I’m struggling to come up with a rational explanation.
Wouldn’t a rouge site just need cosmetic changes?
Not necessarily, depending on aesthetics, but a rogue site would need taming.
Willis-
How much of climate science is held hostage to the fact that we don’t
understand the total effect of clouds that well? AFAIK, there isn’t any plan to
get satellites with 100x-300x better resolution. Also, I read that even if we
got this level of resolution, we wouldn’t have the computing power to run the
models with that many times the extra data. Any comments/solutions/ideas?
Getting a better understanding of clouds would also leave less to argue about
concerning the effect of the sun, too.
Running way too hot in the lowest emission scenario means they are running even hotter in the higher emission scenarios. Scary—NOT!
The only CMIP6 models that seem semi realistic are INM CM4.8 and CM5.0. ECS 1.8 and 1.9 respectively compared to EBM observational ECS~1.7, and NO tropical troposphere hot spot—as proven by a comment reference to Andy May’s recent post here on that topic. We also know the two main INM differences to all the other modeling groups (there are 49 total groups running over 60 ‘different’ models) is higher ocean thermal inertia and more realistic ocean precipitation compared to ARGO (meaning lower water vapor positive feedback). In CMIP5, except for INM the ocean precipitation averaged about twice ARGO observed.
I took a look at the two INM models, and while they track historical temperatures well, I found something quite surprising …
Go figure … if nothing else, this demonstrates that wildly differing models can do a reasonable job of hindcasting similar pasts, but their futures are completely different.
“Physics based models”? Don’t think so …
w.
WE, thanks. I was hoping you might post that before I had to go dig,it out myself. Gracias.
My pleasure, Rud. At this point I’ve written enough functions to do the heavy lifting that it doesn’t take me long to put together a graph.
My best to you and that good lady who is gracious enough to put up with you, as all of our good ladies do,
w.
If they didn’t, we’d all starve to death and never procreate. Be afraid, very afraid.
Rud, I’ve added this to the head post, with a h/t to you. Many thanks.
w.
“I took a look at the two INM models, and while they track historical temperatures well,”
They are not tracking historical temperatures. They are tracking science fiction.
They should try to track the real historical temperatures as represented by this graph.:
I’m with you Tom.
2020 1 degree higher globally than 1950?? BULLSHIT!
Anyone who has seriously looked at the temperature record knows it was just as warm in the Early Twentieth Century as it is today. This means there is no unprecedented warming today and also means CO2 is a minor player in the Earth’s atmosphere, that does not require regulation.
I am at a loss to explain why otherwise intelligent people insist on using a bastardized Hockey Stick temperauture record, that does not represent reality, and was created in a computer, by people who we know were conspiring to change the Earth’s temperature profile into something scary, as a means of promoting the Human-caused Climate Change scam.
And we have good people going right along with the scammers. I don’t understand it. It must be related to “group-think” in some way.
Tom, you must understand the full importance of the old story: A gambler, when asked why he gambled at an obviously crooked dice location, responded “Its the only game in town.” You ain’t gonna change the game no matter how sincere or “right” you are.
The radiosonde and UAH6 atmospheric records from about 1979 forward (additionally with ARGO beginning in the early 20th Century) are putting a lie to the adjusted surface temperature records and the bogus atmospheric temperature record at RSS. That is why CliSciFi is attempting to destroy UAH6. Dirty bastards.
“Tom, you must understand the full importance of the old story: A gambler, when asked why he gambled at an obviously crooked dice location, responded “Its the only game in town.” You ain’t gonna change the game no matter how sincere or “right” you are.”
I think you nailed it, Dave. That’s exactly what is going on.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t help with our search for the truth.
“That is why CliSciFi is attempting to destroy UAH6. Dirty bastards.”
I agree.
Tom Abbot claims:
“Anyone who has seriously looked at the temperature record knows it was just as warm in the Early Twentieth Century as it is today.”
Any farmer or gardener who has been paying careful attention knows that this claim cannot possibly be correct. Last Spring Frosts have been occuring earlier and earlier, First Fall Frosts have been arriving later and later, and Annual Growing Degree Days have been increasing. See the data at research study cited below:
Kukal, M.S., Irmak, S. U.S. Agro-Climate in 20th Century: Growing Degree Days, First and Last Frost, Growing Season Length, and Impacts on Crop Yields. Sci Rep8, 6977 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25212-2
“On average, First Fall Frost has been occurring later (by 5.4 days century−1), and Last Spring Frost has been occurring earlier (by 6.9 days century−1), resulting in the average lengthening of the Climatological Growing Season (by 12.7 days century−1). Annual Growing Degree Days has been increasing by 50 °C century−1.”
The only way that graph can be true is if net forcings in about the 2030s changes drastically between the two different models.
I’d be willing to bet the divergence into three groupings ultimately comes down to ECS assumptions. Top being Hansen, bottom being Manabe and middle being an average of the two.
ECS is an emergent property of models, not an input assumption.
In terms of inputs into the models this is true, but not in terms of tuning the model.
Tim, the tuning is only for hindcasting, to best match historical observations.The CMIP ‘design’ is back 3 decades.
I doubt it. I think if multiple runs following that hindcasting tuning result in too much or too little warming (or indeed the model blowing up) then they’d further tune.
Also its worth clarifying with the point that the tuning isn’t to get the best historical matches, its to get acceptable historical matches whilst not being outrageous (or blowing up) in the future.
That’s easily seen by the raw data that goes all over the shop.
Ouch, again, Rud! Tuning caries forward to the future math of the models.
“best match historical observations”
If they match to Best, HadCrut or Giss.. they are wrong before they even start.
None of these bear much resemblance to any real historic observations.
Ouch, Rud! All the input assumptions lead to an assumed ECS. The modelers say that tuning is done to reach an ECS that “seems about right.”
Rud, are you attempting to parody Gavin Schmidt as sarcasm?
Gavin Schmidt said that ECS is an emergent property of the models. Bullshit; it is programmed into the models, plus manipulated by parameter assumptions targeting a particular ECS. Models that don’t replicate history are, de facto, wrong. Models that simulate history based on adjustment are, de facto, suspect.
After they have populated the fantasy world of model based “science” for 50 years, they’re very familiar with the limited parameters they manipulate … like lab rats. They can provide any result needed to suit whatever narrative is required by their pay masters.
Rory, one may consider the models as black boxes that give a linear relationship between assumed CO2 concentrations and temperatures. Obviously crap, but well-paid crap.
Just so, Dave … and they sound so sciency. They’re so easy to sell to the useful idiots as “data”. They provide graphic representations for logical fallacies, with an easily manipulated set of ‘dials’ for quick adjustment.
Willis Eschenbach, what is the difference between the SS126 and actual emissions?
I believe that historically they use the actual emissions …
w.
‘Actual’ for CO2, but only aerosol guesstimates, which get fiddled historically high to cool hot model hindcasts (cause nobody has real good historical aerosol estimates, cause way complicated—black soot, SOx, natural turpenes, isoprenes, and ocean dimethyl sulfide). Summer Appalachian Great Smokey Mountains national park is ‘smokey’ because of deciduous tree leaf isoprenes reacting with SE US summer high humidity to produce visibly ‘smokey’ aerosols.
In other words, the past is whatever you want it to be in CliSciFi. The future is also whatever you want it to be. The present does not match CliSciFi, therefore it is ignored.
Exactly.
This is modern-day alarmist climate science.
“‘Actual’ for CO2, but only aerosol guesstimates, which get fiddled historically high to cool hot model hindcasts (cause nobody has real good historical aerosol estimates, cause way complicated—black soot, SOx, natural turpenes, isoprenes, and ocean dimethyl sulfide).”
Yes, let’s all keep this in mind when discussing aerosols.
Some people seem so sure of themselves when discussing aerosols, but as Rud points out, nobody has good historical aerosol estimates.
There are too many people making too many guesses about aerosols and presenting them as facts in climate science.
Presenting assumptions and guesses about CO2 and aerosols as facts seems to be standard operating procedure for those who think humans control Earth’s climate.
They have no facts.
I am curious as to why in all the graphs there is a cool down starting about 2075.
Simple. This is the lowest emission scenario, well below business as usual. So assumed strong CO2 mitigation. If things didn’t eventually start to cool down, then CO2 mitigation would be pointless. Alarmists cannot have that result. Nope.
The tax taking operation is completed then.
[snip. You are either willfully misunderstanding, too ignorant, or simply too ideological to understand of what full transparency means.]
Reality check:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/how-climate-models-got-so-accurate-they-earned-a-nobel-prize?fbclid=IwAR0gfeYNX2LdQnc44f271C31ec0mGtNGLa-HvqLJcIVec7SGLeo-bUqa_qk
And…
https://earther.gizmodo.com/exxon-predicted-2019-s-ominous-co2-milestone-in-1982-1834748763
And…
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming
And…
https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00154.1
And…
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-computer-model-princeton-stouffer-manabe-vindicated-30-years-global-warming-a7609976.html
If 50 year old climate models correctly predicted global warming, then it cannot be worse than we thought.
You cannot have it both ways.
All Willis did was plot some readily available information about models and observations. There’s no complicated formulas, or adjustments or anything new involved. You have the hard data right here. What you should be doing is posting links to Willis’ post in the comment sections of the links you posted, which clearly refute what the articles say.
Barry, all I do is report the facts. I see that you don’t like the fact that the CMIP6 climate models are running far too hot, a fact which has been reported elsewhere.
But that doesn’t change the facts … and neither do “50-year-old climate models”. I’m talking about the CMIP6 models, the latest models.
And if you claim that my analysis of those models is wrong, you need to DEMONSTRATE that rather than just post random articles from the web. This is why I put up, as is my custom, the link to the data I used.
Download the data, analyze it, and demonstrate where I went wrong, or go bother someone else.
Best regards,
w.
By all means, Willis, please provide all necessary source materials to reproduce your findings. We’ll wait eagerly for your submission.
He has, you mindless slime. This is why you’e being mistreated, or more accurately, appropriately treated.
I gave you the link to the data. I eagerly await your analysis.
w.
Didn’t you read the very first paragraph?
“Over at the marvelous KNMI website, home of all kinds of climate data, they’re just finishing their transfer to a new server. I noticed that they’ve completed the migration of the Climate Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) data to the new server, so I downloaded all of the model runs. I thought I’d take a look at the future scenario that has the smallest increase in CO2 emissions. This is the “SSP126” scenario. KNMI has a total of 222 model runs using the SSP126 scenario. Figure 1 shows the raw model runs with the actual temperatures.”
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It appears neither YOU nor your possible hidden masters can’t do what Willis can do while he is still waiting for the appropriate response to his work he posted here for free.
I predict that you will NEVER do what Willis did because you don’t have the ability to do the work.
In all cases you post a bunch of links that doesn’t address the content of what Willis writes while I have had to moderate some of your ugly attacks that will never see the light of day.
Congratulations on not totally deleting or banning all his posts. Which would be the norm of how dissent is treated on a site such as Ars Technica or the Guardian or Real Climate.
Here you all are going to the trouble of clipping out the abuse and permitting him still to post, and that is one of the things that is admirable about this site.
I agree. The moderators are going out of their way to allow Barry to post his links.
Most places would just delete his whole post on sight.
Why don’t you go back to trolling Willis on FB? Did FB get tired of your bs as well?
It has been TWO days yet NOTHING from you about the KNMI data download Willis used to make his charts how come you didn’t download them and make YOUR case against what Willis wrote?
I think you are blowing white smoke and nothing more.
We’ll wait eagerly or your apology to Willis.
And yet these perfect models still can’t predict the climate.
Didn’t Gavin Schmidt say the models are running way too hot?
As did the UN IPCC CliSciFi AR6, which had to reject the really egregious ones.
4 Eyes,
I believe that Gavin has said RCP 8.5 is “wrong” and I note Dave Fair’s reference to UN IPCC CliSciFi AR6 that the really egregious ones are a dead letter.
The issue was discussed by Gavin on Real Climate on 30 January 2020 under “BAU wow,wow”after Hausfather and Peters posted in Nature,“Emissions- the ‘business as usual’ story is misleading”, 29 January, 2020.
They had said RCP 8.5 had painted ‘a dystopian future’ which was fossil fuel intensive and that RCP 8.5 was intended to explore an unlikely high risk future scenario which had unfortunately been misused by the media(!).
Several discussions by Gavin about AR6 say some models are not consistent with observed data.
For obvious reasons, this is a thorny topic for Schmidt, Mann et al.
This just highlights the political window of opportunity for the Climate Crusades in graphical form.
The ~ 1970 cooling is very evident.
I just can not believe that we know the average temp of the whole earth back before 1960, certainly not back to 1850, no way, imagine how many GOOD data points one would need for that, does not exist.
Oh, by the way, interesting article over at SP!KED about cost of oil –
The runaway cost of virtue-signalling – spiked (spiked-online.com)
Here is a graph showing the percentage of temporal coverage in each grid node for HadCRUT4 from 1850. So its the count of how many monthly slices the grid node has a value present, divided by the total number of years*months.
What is quite clear is that surface observations are only close to continuous in NH Europe and America plus shipping lanes (Atlantic, to some extent trade routes to the Far East). Africa, South America, Indian sub-continent etc and that fairly large ocean called the Pacific have much less than 50% temporal coverage.
Almost all the main surface datasets will be similar I suspect as I am sure they must share the same basic thermometer records.
And this is a graph of the proportion (not percent as in the title) of grid coverage over the globe (number of 5 x 5 degree cells with data) month by month since 1850 for HadCRUT4. Note this is a simple grid cell count, its not area weighted.
So we don’t really get above even 50% grid cell coverage until about 1950 – so your estimate of 1960 was pretty good.