Sentences with phrase «favours high climate sensitivity»

«Thus it appears that the Pinatubo cooling favours high climate sensitivity,» say Hansen and his colleagues in a study for a forthcoming issue of the journal National Geographic Research and Exploration.

Not exact matches

Forest et al. (2006) demonstrate that the inclusion of natural forcing affects the estimated PDF of climate sensitivity since net negative natural forcing in the second half of the 20th century favours higher sensitivities than earlier results that disregarded natural forcing (Forest et al., 2002; see Figure 9.20), particularly if the same ocean warming estimates were used.

The orange line in Fig. 3 shows how strongly the IPCC's favoured use of a uniform prior in sensitivity dominates a not very informative likelihood function, giving the appearance of a high probability of a very high climate sensitivity that is very largely a reflection of the prior distribution used.

That's all I was saying and of course policy makers and climate activists have generally ignored more recent lower estimates in favour of adopting a precautionary principle which encompasses the higher end of the IPCC climate sensitivity range.

It is, however, a measure of their fundamental lack of seriousness that when there really are important uncertainties (i.e. the likelihood that climate sensitivity is higher than generally thought), they ignore them in favour of making the same repetitive uninteresting and incorrect claims they always make.