Sentences with phrase «climate modellers about»

For instance, Shackley et al., 1999 surveyed climate modellers about one type of fudge factor, called a «flux adjustment», which was used by many of the climate models in the 1990s.

Not exact matches

Till now, climate modellers» forecasts of future warming have resembled the famous bell curve, with the most likely result of doubling CO2 being a temperature increase of about 3 °C, and with declining probabilities on either side for a narrow range of higher and lower temperature rises (see Graph).

The most detailed record of the Earth's climate over the past 250 000 years is making modern climate modellers think again about the implications of a greenhouse world

Charles Lansdale wonders why we should believe predictions about climate change 50 years into the future when computer modellers sometimes...

Assuming the numbers stack up, sauropods warmed the planet by about 1 °C, says climate modeller David Beerling of the University of Sheffield, UK.

«If we assume an optimistic scenario for greenhouse gas emissions — the RCP 2.6 scenario, [see Fact Box] which would result in a warming of about two degrees Celsius — then we can expect an increase in sea level similar to what we see in this video,» says climate modeller Martin Stendel from the Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen.

Statements such as «They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models» reveals he has never had a conversation with a climate modeller — our concerns about ice sheets for instance come about precisely because we aren't yet capable of modelling them satisfactorily.

It is really about time that climate modellers who are posting on this blog came down from their ivory towers and had a look at the real world.

Some of the models also involve ensemble calculations, and again it may be instructive for the climate modellers to describe something about the use of these, especially as the public has been involved in some ensemble calculations being run on their pc's at home.

I'll bet my house on little green Martians arriving and asking to be taken to see Chris Monckton before I'll expect any climate modellers to give a t ** s about observational data.

This week, about 150 of the world's top climate modellers have converged on Reading for a four day meeting to plan a revolution in climate prediction.

I defer to the climate modellers on the question of what levels of temperature rise to be concerned about and how to do the modelling.

This is not surprising either, since, unlike climate modellers, they may actually have some detailed knowledge about the history of the Earth.

For this reason, Shackley et al. found that many climate modellers didn't want to talk openly about their adjustments, in case critics of man - made global warming (who they referred to as «climate contrarians») would use them to question the reliability of the models:

«Of course there are gaps in our knowledge about Earth's climate system and its components, and yes, nothing has been made clear enough to the public,» says Gavin Schmidt, a climate modeller at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and one of the moderators and contributors to the influential RealClimate blog.

«You need to be very circumspect about the added value of downscaling to regional impacts,» agrees Hans von Storch, a climate modeller at the GKSS Institute for Coastal Research in Geesthacht, Germany, who has recently contributed to a regional climate assessment of the Hamburg metropolitan region.

I was teased by my climate modeller colleagues about so much hands - on work with climate proxies (e.g., tree rings and ocean sediment cores) and was considered askance by my climate proxy colleagues.

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.

The current adjustments and hyperventilation about the biblical sanctity of the temperature and models are being done by the climate scientists and modellers who have till date not shown any skills or capability to do that job fairly and ethically and especially present results as they are, without spinning or putting a slant on them or» adjusting» them.

One of the world's top climate modellers said Thursday we could be about to enter one or even two decades during which temperatures cool.