Opinion by Anthony Watts A surprising comment published January 29th in the leading scientific journal Nature said; “Emissions – the ‘business as usual’ story is misleading – Stop using the…
Category: Climate sensitivity
Top and Bottom of the Atmosphere
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Some days I learn a lot. Today was one of them. Let me start at the start. Back in 1987 in a paper entitled ‘The…
Climate sensitivity in light of the latest energy imbalance evidence
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on January 10, 2020 by curryja | by Frank Bosse Equilibrium climate sensitivity computed from the latest energy imbalance data. The Earth…
Two more degrees by 2100!
From Dr Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on December 27, 2019 by curryja | by Vaughan Pratt An alternative perspective on 3 degrees C? This post was originally intended as…
A Decided Lack Of Equilibrium
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about the lack of progress in estimating the “equilibrium climate sensitivity”, known as ECS. The ECS measures how much the temperature…
3 degrees C?
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on December 23, 2019 by curryja | by Judith Curry Is 3 C warming over the 21st century now the ‘best estimate’? …
Comment by Cowtan & Jacobs on Lewis & Curry 2018 and Reply: Part 1
From Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on December 16, 2019 by niclewis | 52 Comments By Nic Lewis A comment on LC18 (recent paper by Lewis and Curry on…
Sour milk, sourer grapes and the unnatural greenhouse effect
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley I am most grateful to Bob Irvine, in a recent column here, for repeating a point that I have tried to make many times, to…
How Lord Monckton’s Conundrum can be used to calculate maximum climate sensitivity to CO2
Thought Experiment; Guest post by Bob Irvine How Lord Monckton’s Conundrum can be used to calculate maximum climate sensitivity to CO2. What follows is a discussion only. Introduction; The IPCC…
Gregory et al 2019: Unsound claims about bias in climate feedback and climate sensitivity estimation
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on October 18, 2019 by niclewis | By Nic Lewis The recently published open-access paper “How accurately can the climate sensitivity to…
Radiation versus Temperature
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [SEE UPDATE AT THE END] Due to the recent posts by Lord Monkton and Nick Stokes, I’ve been thinking about the relationship between radiation and…
What’s the worst case? Climate sensitivity
Posted on April 1, 2019 by curryja | Reposted from Climate Etc. by Judith Curry Are values of equilibrium climate sensitivity > 4.5 C plausible? For background, see these previous…
What’s the worst case? A possibilistic approach
Reposted from Climate Etc. Posted on March 27, 2019 by curryja | by Judith Curry Are all of the ‘worst-case’ climate scenarios and outcomes described in assessment reports, journal publications…
Cliff Mass: victim of academic political bullying
Reposted from Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. by Judith Curry There is a disturbing story coming out of the University of Washington surrounding Cliff Mass. In preparing this article, I have…
New CERES Data
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Every fall, there’s good news in the world of satellite information, because the CERES satellite folks add one more year’s worth of data to their…
Warming patterns are unlikely to explain low historical estimates of climate sensitivity
By Nic Lewis Plain language summary A new paper led by a UK Met Office scientist claims that accounting for the difference in the spatial pattern of surface temperature change…
Why does climate sensitivity increase over time in models? A look at two possibilities
Guest analysis by Alberto Zaragoza Comendador Note: if the terms used in this article seem confusing, check out the previous one. Introduction It’s well known that climate models show increasing sensitivity…
Climatology’s startling error of physics: answers to comments
Answers to comments from the original essay on WUWT, here. By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley I make no apology for returning to the topic of the striking error of physics…
It shouldn’t take hundreds of years to estimate climate sensitivity
Guest essay by Alberto Zaragoza Comendador Summary: Climate models with different sensitivities reproduce the historical temperature record just as well (or badly) An interpretation could be the historical temperature record…
Stacking Up Volcanoes
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See Update at end] As readers of my posts know, I’ve held for many years that there are a variety of emergent phenomena that…
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