Your statement on mistaken assumption # 5
about climate model projections being theoretically based rather than empirically based is well made.
Your statement on mistaken assumption # 5
about climate model projections being theoretically based rather than empirically based is well made.
Not exact matches
The researchers then used a mathematical
model that combined the conflict data with temperature and rainfall
projections through 2050 to come up with predictions
about the likelihood of
climate - related violence in the future.
Of the many inane arguments that are made against taking action on
climate change, perhaps the most fatuous is that the
projections climate models offer
about the future are too uncertain to justify taking steps that might inconvenience us in the present.
By linking
climate models to water cycle
models, we can also generate
projections about how
climate change is likely to influence Montana's water resources.
Optimization of
climate models raises important questions
about whether tuning methods a priori constrain the
model results in unintended ways that would affect our confidence in
climate projections.
Raw
climate model results for a business - as - usual scenario indicate that we can expect global temperatures to increase anywhere in the range of 5.8 and 10.6 degrees Fahrenheit (3.2 to 5.9 degrees Celsius) over preindustrial levels by the end of the century — a difference of
about a factor of two between the most - and least - severe
projections.
John, On the «Presentation: Precautionary Principle...» thread you told me that you think it's «unhelpful to conflate discussion of
climate - science issues like the
modelling of SO2,
about which none of us here know very much, with discussion of economic
projections, where we can have a useful discussion.»
What's lost in a lot of the discussion
about human - caused
climate change is not that the sum of human activities is leading to some warming of the earth's temperature, but that the observed rate of warming (both at the earth's surface and throughout the lower atmosphere) is considerably less than has been anticipated by the collection of
climate models upon whose
projections climate alarm (i.e., justification for strict restrictions on the use of fossil fuels) is built.
Of the many inane arguments that are made against taking action on
climate change, perhaps the most fatuous is that the
projections climate models offer
about the future are too uncertain to justify taking steps that might inconvenience us in the present.
Patrick Brown and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science say incorporating observational data of «Earth's top - of - atmosphere energy budget» shows the «warming
projection for the end of the twenty - first century for the steepest radiative forcing scenario is
about 15 per cent warmer (+0.5 degrees Celsius)... relative to the raw
model projections reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change.»
I believe the most of the hysteria
about climate change will eventually subside when reality refuses to conform to
model projections.
People who've been following the debate
about global warming closely will be aware that the economic
modelling used in
projections of future
climate change by the IPCC has been severely criticised by former Australian Statistician Ian Castles and former OECD chief economist David Henderson.
In my experience this is certainly the case if you talk
about the simulations as predictions rather than
projections — the
climate models are not predicting what the weather will be on the 5th of May 2051 — they are providing
projections of the
climate based on emission scenarios and initial conditions.
'' it is suggested that the strength of the tropical low - cloud feedback predicted by the IPSL - CM5A
model in
climate projections might be overestimated by
about fifty percent.»
There is a lot of talk
about climate models not being validated sufficiently, which is obviously not possible until their
projections come to pass.
2: Our Changing
Climate, Key Messages 5 and 6).4, 10 A range of
model projections for the end of this century under a higher emissions scenario (A2), averaged over the region, suggests
about 5 % to 20 % (25th to 75th percentile of
model projections) increases in winter precipitation.
In particular, we find that the observationally informed warming
projection for the end of the twenty - first century for the steepest radiative forcing scenario is
about 15 per cent warmer (+0.5 degrees Celsius) with a reduction of
about a third in the two - standard - deviation spread (− 1.2 degrees Celsius) relative to the raw
model projections reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change.»
However, there remains uncertainty in the rate of sea ice loss, with the
models that most accurately project historical sea ice trends currently suggesting nearly ice - free conditions sometime between 2021 and 2043 (median 2035).12 Uncertainty across all
models stems from a combination of large differences in
projections among different
climate models, natural
climate variability, and uncertainty
about future rates of fossil fuel emissions.
And finally, and perhaps most importantly, the future
projection of temperature rise made by
climate models (upon which the sea level rise
projections are based) have been shown by a growing body of scientific research to be overestimated by
about 40 percent.
Similarly, the
climate scenarios were based on 2xCO2 equilibrium GCM
projections from three
models, where the radiative forcing of
climate was interpreted as the combined concentrations of CO2 (555 ppm) and other greenhouse gases (contributing
about 15 % of the change in forcing) equivalent to a doubling of CO2, assumed to occur in
about 2060.
This means, for any given
projection, the internal state of the
model is not known to reveal anything
about the underlying physical state of the true terrestrial
climate.
It's all
about climate models, and temperature
projections at the step-wise annual level.
In contrast,
climate projections done with
climate models are what - if statements
about the statistical properties of the system for a given configuration (which can be changing in time) of external
climate drivers.
Arctic sea - ice has melted far beyond the expectations of
climate models -
about 40 percent greater than the average
projection from the 2007 IPCC Report.
This should, in theory, lead to more realistic
projections for the future, but many of the
climate modellers I spoke to were keen to point out that simulating the
climate with more complex
models may well lead to greater uncertainty
about what the future holds.
Various approaches to improve the precision of multi-model
projections have been explored, but there is still no agreed strategy for weighting the
projections from different
models based on their historical performance so that there is no direct means of translating quantitative measures of past performance into confident statements
about fidelity of future
climate projections.
However, using the CMIP3 and CMIP5 multi-
model climate projections, the hurricane
model also projects that the lifetime maximum intensity of Atlantic hurricanes will increase by
about 5 % during the 21st century in general agreement with previous studies.
Our estimates of key
climate model uncertainties are constrained by observations of the
climate system for the period 1906 - 1995, 7 and uncertainty in emissions reflect errors in measurement of current emissions and expert judgment
about variables that influence key economic
projections.
I should begin by disclosing that as a former project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, I was tasked with thinking
about how to combine data from different
climate models into probabilistic
projections of regional
climate change.
It is partly for this reason that
climate change
projections are made using
climate models (see Learn
about... computer
models) that can account for many different types of
climate variations and their interactions.
Asked by CNSNews
about the Intergovernment Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), Easterbrook said they «ignored all the data I gave them... every time I say something about the projection of climate into the future based on real data, they come out with some [computer] modeled data that says this is just a temporary pause... I am absolutely dumfounded by the totally absurd and stupid things said every day by people who are purportedly scientists that make no sense whatsoe
Climate Change (IPCC), Easterbrook said they «ignored all the data I gave them... every time I say something
about the
projection of
climate into the future based on real data, they come out with some [computer] modeled data that says this is just a temporary pause... I am absolutely dumfounded by the totally absurd and stupid things said every day by people who are purportedly scientists that make no sense whatsoe
climate into the future based on real data, they come out with some [computer]
modeled data that says this is just a temporary pause... I am absolutely dumfounded by the totally absurd and stupid things said every day by people who are purportedly scientists that make no sense whatsoever....
None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2,
Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The
modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing
models to simulate past
climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (
about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.
There is a large ongoing effort as part of the
Climate Model Intercomparison Project - Phase 5 (CMIP5) to make projections about the future climate that will account both of these infl
Climate Model Intercomparison Project - Phase 5 (CMIP5) to make
projections about the future
climate that will account both of these infl
climate that will account both of these influences.