Sentences with phrase «larger climate sensitivity»

You have already decided that what appears to be the position of a majority of experts (a large climate sensitivity to GHGs and catastrophic scenarios for the future) must be right.

Knutti et al. (2006), using a different, perturbed physics ensemble, showed that models with a strong seasonal cycle in surface temperature tended to have larger climate sensitivity.

The reason they returned to the 1.5 to 4.5 range is because there was virtually no global warming since 2000 (the so called «hiatus»), which is embarrassingly inconsistent with a large climate sensitivity.

Yes, these empirical studies (and others that do not make assumptions or set constraints that necessarily lead to large climate sensitivities, constitute a body of evidence that the climate sensiitivity is about 1 deg C for doubling, 1/3 of the IPCC «central» value.