While acknowledging there are «differences» between modeled and observed temperatures for «periods as short as 10 to 15 years,» the IPCC's 2013 Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)
claims models and observations «agree» over the 62 - year period from 1951 to 2012 (Summary for Policymakers, p. 15).
Not exact matches
This
claim is complemented with a broad literature synthesis of past work in numerical weather prediction,
observations, dynamical theory,
and modeling in the central U.S. Importantly, the discussion also distills some notoriously confusing aspects of the super-parameterization approach into clear language
and diagrams, which are a constructive contribution to the literature.
Miskolczi has taken this approach by writing yet another incoherent paper where inaccurate empirical
observations and approximate properties of
model calculations are put together
claiming that the result is a new exact law of nature.
How Thorne et al could credibly
claim that there is no reasonable evidence of a fundamental disagreement between tropospheric temperature trends from
models and observations when uncertainties in both are treated comprehensively is mind - boggling.
The issue is the growing discrepancy between the climate
models and observations,
and the
claim by Santer
and others that under conditions of AGW, that any period of no warming or cooling beyond 17 years is very unlikely.
Those numbers were based on crude climate
models whose validity had never been tested by
observations —
and even today, there remains no validation for the climate
models that are at the heart of most
claims of climate catastrophe.
It seems evident to me (
and I do not
claim that this
observation is original) that the range of IPCC
models do not fully sample the range of physically possible or even plausible GCMs at lower sensitivities.
It would not have occurred to me to suggest that they delete both figures, concoct a new one that obscures the AR4 uncertainty ranges in a spaghetti format,
and double down on text that
claims the
observations match the
models.
Again, all
claims to the contrary are based on false assumptions
and bad
models, not direct
observations.
The
modeling of the volcanic forcings are very handwavy,
and the
claim that the CO2 forcing goes as ln [CO2], actually is a
model result contrary to the
claim that all of the attribution studies only use
observations.
[Page 16] This summary paragraph
claims that the spatial patterns of warming from
models forced with GHG's
and other anthropogenic forcings agrees well with
observations.
So «fingerprint» studies which
claim to find close correspondence between climate
model projections
and actual
observations during the past 50 to 100 years are confused as to both causes
and effects.
I'll bet he uses one of the NWS or other studies which
claims the errors from the erroneous
observations are negligible
and not a significant factor in the error range of the climate
models.
If you want to test Gavin Schmidt
and the IPCC reports he uses to support his
claims, try to obtain proof that the datasets have been adequately adjusted to remove the false raw temperature
observations used in the preparation of the various
models relied upon by the IPCC.
IPCC authors added a grey envelope around the AR4 envelope, presumably to give rhetorical support for their false
claim about
models and observations; however, this envelope did not occur in AR4 or any peer reviewed literature.
A review of
observations, theory
and modeling is presented to support the
claim that strong anticyclonic relative vorticity can also lead to CAT through the generation of gravity wave activity by geostrophic adjustment
and inertial instability.
From the caption to Figure 2 in SM's headpost: «IPCC authors added a grey envelope around the AR4 envelope, presumably to give rhetorical support for their false
claim about
models and observations; however, this envelope did not occur in AR4 or any peer reviewed literature.»
For years they
and a number of researchers have
claimed that the
models have severely exaggerated the projected warming by greenhouse gases emitted by man
and that
observations over the past 20 years for the most part refute the theory.
let's take this to an extreme... suppose that internal variability is zero... then the «within group» s.d. is zero... suppose that
models agree pretty well with each other
and observations fall within the tight band of
model projections... then by steve's method you create the average of
models and call it a
model... with an s.d. of zero... show that the
model falls outside the observational s.d.... proclaim that the
model fails...
claim that this is a test of
modelling... hence extrapolate that all
models fail... even though
observations fall slap bang in the
model range... this result is nonsensical... per tco it isn't how
models are used... where's structural uncertainty?
The authors
claim an «inconsistency» between
observations and models, since the surface temperature data (HadCRUT4) had a trend of 0.14 deg.