Not exact matches
Of
course, while short - term
changes in sea level can be predicted fairly accurately based on the motions of the moon and sun, it is a lot harder predicting the ups and downs of the average
global surface
temperature — there is a lot of noise, or natural variation,
in the system.
If the Earth stays on its current
course without reversing greenhouse gas emissions, and
global temperatures rise 5 degrees Celsius, as scientists say is possible, the pace of
change will be at least 50 times and possibly 100 times swifter than what's occurred
in the past, Field said.
In addition to surveying actual temperatures in recent decades, Meehl and his co-authors turned to a sophisticated computer model of global climate to determine how record high and low temperatures are likely to change during the course of this centur
In addition to surveying actual
temperatures in recent decades, Meehl and his co-authors turned to a sophisticated computer model of global climate to determine how record high and low temperatures are likely to change during the course of this centur
in recent decades, Meehl and his co-authors turned to a sophisticated computer model of
global climate to determine how record high and low
temperatures are likely to
change during the
course of this century.
Of
course, this is just summer months
in Indiana, not a
global view of
temperature changes.
Of
course Ferdinand is right not to project catastrophism onto anthropogenic CO2 levels for as you likely know there is a inverse logarithmic relationship between
changes in temperature and CO2 levels such that without the assumed positive feedback from water vapour there is no chance of runaway
global warming, tipping points or whatever.
Any chance you could practice your statistical analysis to see if there's a correlation between the PDSI for California since 800 AD, seen here: http://tinyurl.com/p6km6da (taken from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014GL062433/abstract) and
global temperature for the same time period, as seen here: http://tinyurl.com/lq7tvhl Visually, I think I can see a trend correlation, once the noise is taken out,
in which CA drought drops slightly (PDSI increases) while
global temperature drops, but around 1880 as
temperature changes course upward, so does CA PDSI, but downward (increasing drought).
Of
course, the same could be said for
global temperature, where a half degree C
temperature increase on an absolute Kelvin scale would only be about 0.17 %, so an argument can be made that on a percentage basis, this
change in irradiance is about the same order of magnitude as our
change in temperature.
Unlike other scientists
in the
global warming field who have had to continually backtrack, sidestep and spin erroneous findings when their models proved embarrassingly wrong, Abdussamatov's studies over the last decade have stayed on
course,
in keeping with the actual
temperature readings that ultimately provide a true measure of climate
change.
RealClimate is wonderful, and an excellent source of reliable information.As I've said before, methane is an extremely dangerous component to
global warming.Comment # 20 is correct.There is a sharp melting point to frozen methane.A huge increase
in the release of methane could happen within the next 50 years.At what point
in the Earth's
temperature rise and the rise of co2 would a huge methane melt occur?No one has answered that definitive issue.If I ask you all at what point would huge amounts of extra methane start melting, i.e at what
temperature rise of the ocean near the Artic methane ice deposits would the methane melt, or at what point
in the rise of co2 concentrations
in the atmosphere would the methane melt, I believe that no one could currently tell me the actual answer as to where the sharp melting point exists.Of
course, once that tipping point has been reached, and billions of tons of methane outgass from what had been locked stores of methane, locked away for an eternity, it is exactly the same as the burning of stored fossil fuels which have been stored for an eternity as well.And even though methane does not have as long a life as co2, while it is around
in the air it can cause other tipping points, i.e. permafrost melting, to arrive much sooner.I will reiterate what I've said before on this and other sites.Methane is a hugely underreported, underestimated risk.How about RealClimate attempts to model exactly what would happen to other tipping points, such as the melting permafrost, if indeed a huge increase
in the melting of the methal hydrate ice WERE to occur within the next 50 years.My amateur guess is that the huge, albeit temporary, increase
in methane over even three or four decades might push other relevent tipping points to arrive much, much, sooner than they normally would, thereby vastly incresing negative feedback mechanisms.We KNOW that quick, huge,
changes occured
in the Earth's climate
in the past.See other relevent posts
in the past from Realclimate.Climate often does not
change slowly, but undergoes huge, quick,
changes periodically, due to negative feedbacks accumulating, and tipping the climate to a quick
change.Why should the danger from huge potential methane releases be vievwed with any less trepidation?