It is simply impossible to determine a value for climate sensitivity from observation data until absolutely everything is known and
understood about natural variation, what its various constituent components are, the forcings of each and every individual component and whether the individual component concerned operates positively or negatively, and the upper and lower bounds of the forcings associated with each and every one of its constituent components.
richard verney says: It is simply impossible to determine a value for climate sensitivity from observation data until absolutely everything is known and
understood about natural variation, what its various constituent components are, the forcings of each and every individual component and whether the individual component concerned operates positively or negatively, and the upper and lower bounds of the forcings associated with each and every one of its constituent components.
But as we started to try to piece together the puzzle of what those data were telling us, they also were telling
us about natural variations in temperature in the past and how they compared to the warming trends of the past century.
This ice core record of carbon dioxide concentrations illustrates one major reason why we should be more concerned about human - induced climate change than
about natural variation.