«Our results suggest that stratospheric ozone is important for the Southern Hemisphere climate change, and ought to be more carefully considered in the next set of
IPCC model integrations,» said Seok - Woo Son, lead - author of the study and a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS).
The skeptics tend to pick out one aspect where there is perhaps not full agreement and fail to recognize that observations as well as
models have shortcomings (witness the recent MSU [Microwave Sounding Unit] report's findings of shortcomings in the observational techniques, etc.)-- and that our best understanding must be based on a coherent
integration of the many, many studies into a comprehensive synthesis — and this is what the
IPCC assessments (and others) do.