Sentences with phrase «climate is dicey»
And certainly any scientist worth his salt knows that attributing any particular weather event to climate is dicey at best.
http://www.climate-skeptic.com/ Not exact matches
We are not talking about fine - tuning the climate system, but of altering the weather and that is a dicey proposition at best.
Paleo - climate data are dicey.
Historical data are not questioned when it comes to «anecdotal (or reported) evidence» of battles of WWII, for example, and it is inconceivable to me that climate scientists give higher weighting to dicey paleo - climate studies than to historical documentation.
To paraphrase you: Methinks Fred's calculation just shows how dicey the whole concept of a 2xCO2 «climate sensitivity» is in the first place.
The point of the exercise was to illustrate, as Max Manacker picked up, «how dicey the whole concept of a 2xCO2 «climate sensitivity» is in the first place.»
On paleo data, I think the real problem is two-fold: first of all, there is the flimsy and dicey nature of the proxy data being used and the tiny GH effect that's being read in, which you mention, but then there is the more basic problem that these studies have almost exclusively been «searches for proof» (that «CO2 is the climate control knob», as Richard Alley puts it), rather than objective «searches for the truth».