Sentences with phrase «average climate sensitivity»

Unfortunately, as I showed in my last post, it turns out those short - term measurements are temperature dependent, which means that the long - term average climate sensitivity perforce has to be a function of temperature as well.

My question is whether this number is substantially different when arrived at by averaging climate sensitivity over a 3D surface or calculating climate sensitivity for a 1D average surface.

What this figure does not show, however, is that as other complex feedback mechanisms kick in, the rate of warming may begin to exceed the IPCC average climate sensitivity.

So again, we see that there is no way to assign an average climate sensitivity.