Sentences with phrase «climate sensitivity estimates»

And «scientists,» in this case, apparently include only those on the low end of climate sensitivity estimates, rather than the more likely to be accurate consensus range.

The warming is also consistent with climate sensitivities estimated from warming events in the historical past, and in the paleo record.

But that seems of little relevance to my heat balance based climate sensitivity estimate.

It tries to turn a major factor in the uncertainty in climate sensitivity estimates — the behavior of clouds — into a strength.

The scientists then repeated the energy budget study approaches incorporating what they learned about the various forcing efficiencies, and found that the previous climate sensitivity estimates were indeed biased low.

So it looks like the 3.2 °C ± 0.7 °C climate sensitivity estimate is crumbling.

First, we must consider the distribution of climate sensitivity estimates.

Your implication that the slightly lower climate sensitivity estimate was somehow accepted by all as a new consensus is false.

Lewis and Curry arrive at their lower equilibrium climate sensitivity estimate by using updated compilations of the earth's observed temperature change, oceanic heat uptake, and the magnitude of human emissions, some of which should cause warming (e.g., greenhouse gases), while the others should cool (e.g., sulfate aerosols).

Various paleoclimate - based equilibrium climate sensitivity estimates from a range of geologic eras.

In the report, they find reasons to dismiss the many studies and varying approaches that arrive at higher climate sensitivity estimates, and fail to discuss the shortcomings of the lower sensitivity studies that they prefer.

The results open the possibility that recent climate sensitivity estimates from global observations and [intermediate complexity models] are systematically considerably lower or higher than the truth, since they are typically based on the same realization of climate variability.»

The diagnosis of global radiative feedbacks allows better understanding of the spread of equilibrium climate sensitivity estimates among current GCMs.

According to Lewis, writing yesterday on Curry's blog, the new paper «addresses a range of concerns that have been raised about climate sensitivity estimates» like those in their 2015 paper.

That is the central climate sensitivity estimate from climate models [1], and it is consistent with climate sensitivity inferred from Earth's climate history [51]--[52].

This is well within current climate sensitivity estimates but on the high side for IPCC.

IPCC makes all sorts of calculations on the deleterious effects of NOT halting CO2 emissions, based on the same climate sensitivity estimate and a bunch of model «scenarios» on CO2 increase.

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You are correct that there has been very little change in the overall climate sensitivity estimates, but sometimes progress is made in terms of increased certainty rather than overturned earlier findings.