And we are still not seeing a realistic downgrading of TCS, ECS and
future temperature projections.
Not exact matches
The researchers tested how
future precipitation and
temperature projections would interact with aspects of the land surface such as vegetation and soil type to affect groundwater recharge during two time intervals: 2021 - 2050 and 2071 - 2100.
For
projections of
future temperature and precipitation during the near
future (2021 - 2050) and the far
future (2071 - 2100), the researchers used 11 different global climate models.
The findings were not a total surprise, with
future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air
temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.
The IPCC AR5 Working Group 1 Report contains
projections of
future global surface
temperature change according to several scenarios of
future socio - economic development, most of which are presented using a baseline of 1986 to 2005.
Combining the asylum - application data with
projections of
future warming, the researchers found that an increase of average global
temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.
Current climate change models indicate
temperatures will increase as long as humans continue to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but the
projections of
future precipitation are far less certain.
The researchers then used a mathematical model that combined the conflict data with
temperature and rainfall
projections through 2050 to come up with predictions about the likelihood of climate - related violence in the
future.
The two researchers wanted to provide water managers with insight into how
future projections of
temperature and precipitation for the Colorado River Basin would affect the river's flows.
Our record is also of interest to climate policy developments, because it opens the door to detailed comparisons between past atmospheric CO2 concentrations, global
temperatures, and sea levels, which has enormous value to long - term
future climate
projections.»
The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of climate model
projections of
future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's climate system.
Future projections for the same cities are drawn from climate models that estimate
temperature and humidity assuming global greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.
Of particular interest to the researchers is a
projection from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that
future temperatures on the planet will rise faster at high altitudes than they will at sea level.
A recent analysis looked at historical damage to food crops from high
temperatures during the growing season alongside
projections of
future warming.
Global climate
projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, showing
temperature and precipitation trends for two different
future scenarios, as described in the Climate chapter of this assessment (IPCC 2014a).
Accurate answers to this question are subject to data constraints, as neither of the available
projection datasets under
future climate change scenarios is designed for a 1.5 / 2 °C
temperature warming levels.
The idea apparently persists that climate models are somehow built on the surface
temperature records, and that any adjustment to those records will change the model
projections for the
future.
As I said in # 626, Hansen et al. plan to apply their method to
temperature projections in a
future paper, so we'll be able to compare to their results at some point.
Do you think that in the same way that the Solanki et al paper on solar sunspot reconstructions had a specific statement that their results did not contradict ideas of strong greenhouse warming in recent decades, this (the fact that climate sensitivity
projections are not best estimates of possible
future actual
temperature increases) should be clearly noted in media releases put out by scientists when reporting climate sensitivity studies?
In the end, I would hypothesize that the result of the freeing of data and code will necessarily lead to a more robust understanding of scientific uncertainties, which may have the perverse effect of making the
future less clear, i.e., because it will result in larger error bars around observed
temperature trends which will carry through into the
projections.
Does this mean that the predictions of Antarctic ice melting derive from
future projections of global
temperature increase, and not from existing ice data?
186: Why did it not occur to you, as it did to me, that, since the IPCC's
projections of
future exponential CO2 growth and logarithmic
temperature response necessarily produce a straight line, the IPCC's detuning of its own
projections to reduce the projected
temperature change to just 0.2 C ° / decade over the first couple of decades of this century has no basis in scientific reality or method?
Future projections show that, for most scenarios assuming no additional GHG emission reduction policies, atmospheric concentrations of GHGs are expected to continue climbing for most if not all of the remainder of this century, with associated increases in average
temperature.
Given that the forcings from 1984 to present (as well as the
temperature history) lie at or below the low end of the
projections made in 1988, do you suppose that this will also prove to be true into the
future?
But as illustrated in the figure below, simply extrapolating this correlation forward in time puts the Antarctic
temperature in the near
future somewhere upwards of 10 degrees Celsius warmer than present — rather at the extreme end of the vast majority of
projections (as we have discussed here).
Earlier you said «This site has tiny handful of the predictions made and how they have failed» yet all the examples you have given appear to be about either
projections of global
temperatures, which I am sure others will pick up on if you want to push the issue, or the timespan we have available to take action to avoid committing ourselves to
future consequences.
Hansen gave three different
temperature projections, for three possible
future GHG scenarios.
«
Future projections based on theory and high - resolution dynamical models consistently suggest that greenhouse warming will cause the globally averaged intensity of tropical cyclones to shift towards stronger storms,» Knutson et al. (2010); Grinsted et al. (2013) projected «a twofold to sevenfold increase in the frequency of Katrina magnitude events for a 1 °C rise in global
temperature.»
No, it translates to climate models can not accurately represent natural climate variability, which is why they can't project
future global
temperature at even the 2 % confidence level: «we find that the continued warming stagnation of fifteen years, 1998 - 2012, is no longer consistent with model
projections even at the 2 % confidence level» — vonStorch (2013)
«
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged
temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll - back of the industrial age,» Lindzen was quoted, offering praise for Christopher C. Horner's Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism.
Applies city - specific mortality relationships for extremely hot and cold
temperatures for 33 Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States to develop mortality
projections for historical and potential
future climates
I would like to see any
projection of
future global
temperature which expected CO2 to have a significant effect on
future temperature.
If we use these bases for a
future projection, we end up with atmospheric CO2 at around 600 ppmv and an increase in
temperature of around 2C (not 4C, as your curve projects).
Climate
projections calculated in this paper indicate that the
future atmospheric CO2 concentration will not exceed 610 ppm in this century; and that the increase in global surface
temperature will be lower than 2.6 DegC compared to pre-industrial level even if there is a significant increase in the production of non-conventional fossil fuels.
It started with computer
projections of
future temperature rise along with changes in precipitation, soil moisture and so forth.
One dynamically downscaled IPCC simulation (WRF - MPI - ECHAM5) has a robust representation of Pacific sea surface
temperature variability in the
future projection period up to 2040, but the relationship to enhancement of precipitation extremes is not as clear as in observations.
«A semi-empirical approach to projecting
future sea - level rise» «Testing the robustness of semi-empirical sea level
projections» «Kinematic constraints on glacier contributions to 21st - century sea - level rise» «Contribution of Antarctica to past and
future sea level rise» «Global sea level rise scenarios for the United States National Climate Assessment» «Reconstructing sea level from paleo and projected
temperatures 200 to 2100AD» «Global sea level linked to global
temperature» «Upper limit for sea level
projections by 2100»
Taking advantage of that they can compare the Holocene
temperatures with the present ones and with
projections to the
future.
Whereas if we were rise in
temperature so quickly as to meet UN
projections of
future warming, that would exciting moment for IPCC [with zero bad consequence.]
Such a
temperature rise lies within the range of several
future climate
projections for the 21st century.
To a naïve observer of
temperatures, the difference of
temperature between day and night would lead the observer to make extreme
projections for the very near
future.
Clearly, observed
temperature trends are predicting a
future temp that resembles the IPCC
projection if CO2 was held constant - the actual trends are multiple times below the «runaway» and «accelerating» global warming that Obama and the IPCC still push.
Based on our inferred close relationship between past and
future temperature evolution, our study suggests that paleo - climatic data can help to reduce uncertainty in
future climate
projections.
Research Highlights Summary from Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Global
Temperature Projections 100 ° days: Past and
Future
The simulations were shown to reproduce the observed strong reduction in past crop yields induced by high
temperatures, thereby confirming that they capture one main mechanism for
future projections.
to project both how global average
temperature will respond to
future emissions and the associated uncertainty in those
projections.
The discrepancy between recent observed and simulated trends in global mean surface
temperature has provoked a debate about possible causes and implications for
future climate change
projections.
And finally, and perhaps most importantly, the
future projection of
temperature rise made by climate models (upon which the sea level rise
projections are based) have been shown by a growing body of scientific research to be overestimated by about 40 percent.
If these results continue to be supported, then
future projections of
temperature change, as depicted in the present suite of climate models, are likely too high.
So the issues are the same as surface
temperature observation versus naive
projections of the near -
future forcings.