Sentences with phrase «feedback assumptions»
"Feedback assumptions" refers to the beliefs or ideas that we have about how others perceive or react to our actions, words, or behavior. It involves assuming or predicting what kind of feedback or response we might receive before actually receiving it. Full definition
What's even worse is CO2 - induced global warming's positive - feedback assumption relies on more water vapor entering the air.
climate-skeptic.com
It is telling that when prominent supporters of the catastrophic theory argue the science is settled, they always want to talk about the greenhouse gas effect (which most of us skeptics accept), NOT the positive feedback assumption.
But when we really look at history objectively and tease out measurement problems and cyclical phenomena, we are going to find that this trend is entirely consistent with a zero to negative feedback assumption for the climate as a whole, meaning that man's CO2 is driving 1.2 C or less of warming per doubling of CO2 concentrations.
All this begs the question as to whether the GCM's would coalesce around Callendar's sensitivity absent the always suspect (to my mind) feedback assumptions.
I would add that the feedback assumptions they include at present seem to have at least a whiff of confirmation bias.
All this article is saying is «we are raising our feedback assumptions higher than even the ridiculously high assumptions we were already using.»