My simple regression - based statistical climate
model predicts global carbon dioxide, surface temperature & sea level at yearly time steps.
Empirical scientists should be alarmed that while the most commonly quoted climate
models predict a global temperature increase of 3C per century over this time, it is not happening.
Only the GIGO
models predict global harm from that essential trace gas, while real world observations show that CO2 is harmless.
What do the current
models predict global warming will mean for humanity in practical terms?
Not exact matches
Leading progressive academic economist Steve Keen gained international recognition after he successfully
predicted the 2007
global crisis using an alternative macro-economic
model built on the pioneering work of Hyman Minsky and Wynne Godley.
Climate
models predict that as
global temperatures rise over the next seven decades, subtropical regions like the American Southwest will get drier, while more northern areas, including much of Canada, will get wetter.
These high - resolution projections, based on
global climate
models,
predict when and where annual coral bleaching will occur.
No
model, however, has
predicted the
global warming hiatus which climate researchers have observed since the turn of the millennium.
When researchers ran the numbers for the Corn Belt, the
global models fell short of reality: They
predicted both temperature and humidity to increase slightly, and rainfall to increase by up to 4 % — none of which matches the observed changes.
If
global warming causes strong storms to grow even more fierce, as some climate
models predict, that could trigger a self - feeding cycle that unleashes still more heat - trapping CO2 into the atmosphere.
«The broader idea is that we must understand and include the effects of forest loss when
modeling global climate and trying to
predict how climate will change in the future,» said Swann.
But climate
models predict reductions in dissolved oxygen in all oceans as average
global air and sea temperatures rise, and this may be the main driver of what is happening there, she says.
Global climate
models predict that already - wet regions, such as the northeastern United States, will get even wetter by the end of the century if carbon dioxide levels reach 717 parts per million.
There are more than a dozen widely used
global climate
models today, and despite the fact that they are constantly being upgraded, they have already proved successful in
predicting seasonal rainfall averages and tracking temperature changes.
Over the past 34 years, rainfall in Uganda has decreased by about 12 percent even though many of the
global climate
models predict an increase in rainfall for the area, according to an international team of researchers.
«The result is not a surprise, but if you look at the
global climate
models that have been used to analyze what the planet looked like 20,000 years ago — the same
models used to
predict global warming in the future — they are doing, on average, a very good job reproducing how cold it was in Antarctica,» said first author Kurt Cuffey, a glaciologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of geography and of earth and planetary sciences.
A U.S. Forest Service (USFS) study found that between 53 and 97 percent of natural trout populations in the Southern Appalachian region of the U.S. could disappear due to warmer temperatures
predicted by
global climate change
models.
The resulting outburst of methane produced effects similar to those
predicted by current
models of
global climate change: a sudden, extreme rise in temperatures, combined with acidification of the oceans.
To find out if
global warming might skew the sex ratio of hatchlings, Rory Telemeco and his colleagues at Iowa State University in Ames developed a mathematical
model to
predict the sex ratio of eggs laid at different temperatures.
These
models currently
predict that as a result of today's
global climate change, Antarctica will warm twice as much as the rest of the planet, though it won't reach its peak for a couple of hundred years.
Hertel and doctoral student Uris Baldos developed a combination of economic
models — one that captures the main drivers of crop supply and demand and another that assesses food security based on caloric consumption — to
predict how
global food security from 2006 to 2050 could be affected by changes in population, income, bioenergy, agricultural productivity and climate.
They found no significant trends, but when they put the data into computer
models and simulated a rise in temperature — as
predicted through
global warming — the results were striking.
Climate
models, it says, «can neither confirm that
global warming is occurring now, or
predict future climate changes», and yet «have been used to frame the debate».
With a
global seismic tomography
model that makes use of seismic waves to map the internal structure of the Earth's mantle, Schellart and Spakman were able to identify the fossil slab structure below central and south - eastern Australia at a location and depth
predicted by the reconstructions.
They then compared those results with
predicted isotope distributions derived from a
global climate
model.
James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and a vociferous advocate for lowering
global greenhouse gas emissions, was chosen for his work
modeling Earth's climate,
predicting global warming, and warning the world about the consequences.
I am in the process of creating a
model to
predict the
global spread of HIV subtypes.
By understanding how these fishes evolved, by understanding how we got from the past to the present, we can create a
model for
predicting what's going to happen as
global climates change, as deforestation continues, and all of these aquatic habitats change.
«When we look forward several decades, climate
models predict such profound loss of Arctic sea ice that there's little doubt this will negatively affect polar bears throughout much of their range, because of their critical dependence on sea ice,» said Kristin Laidre, a researcher at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center in Seattle and co-author of a study on projections of the
global polar bear population.
MODIS tracks features of the land, oceans and atmosphere that can help develop
models that
predict global changes.
«Most climate
models that incorporate vegetation are built on short - term observations, for example of photosynthesis, but they are used to
predict long - term events,» said Bond - Lamberty, who works at the Joint
Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.»
If only modest action is taken to reign in greenhouse gas emissions, the
model predicts that pikas will disappear from about 75 percent of sites by 2070 (51 to 88 percent, depending on the
global climate
model used).
Complex as they may be, the activities and effects of consumers should be incorporated into
global vegetation
models in order to accurately
predict the likely consequences of
global change.
With aggressive action to reduce greenhouse gases, the
model predicts that only about 51 percent of sites will suffer local extinction (39 to 79 percent, depending on the
global climate
model).
Global Earth System Models (ESMs) all predict that global photosynthesis will increase with carbon dioxide, but they differ by a factor of three in the size of this «CO2 fertilization&r
Global Earth System
Models (ESMs) all
predict that
global photosynthesis will increase with carbon dioxide, but they differ by a factor of three in the size of this «CO2 fertilization&r
global photosynthesis will increase with carbon dioxide, but they differ by a factor of three in the size of this «CO2 fertilization».
Climate
models predict that as the world warms, heat in inner Asia will continue to rise substantially faster than the
global mean.
Consequences of
global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst - case scenarios
predicted by the dominant climate
models
On average, the
models predicted an 11 percent increase in CAPE in the U.S. per degree Celsius rise in
global average temperature by the end of the 21st century.
Still, the increase is about what's
predicted by computer
models of
global climate.
A team of scientists from Vanderbilt and Stanford universities have created the first comprehensive map of the topsy - turvy climate of the period and are using it to test and improve the
global climate
models that have been developed to
predict how precipitation patterns will change in the future.
Instrumental measurements are also too short to test the ability of state - of - the - art climate
models to
predict which regions of the hemisphere will get drier, or wetter, with
global warming,» says Charpentier Ljungqvist.
«The scientific community is only beginning to understand what it would mean for
global climate should this trend continue, as
predicted by some climate
models.»
In the Arctic, sea ice is vanishing, even faster than
models of
global warming have
predicted.
Interestingly, the key results are comparable for different
models,
predicting the same hotspots and
global highways of bioinvasion.
The new numbers will be used in
models created by economists, environmentalists, and governments who use population estimates to
predict pollution and
global warming levels; prepare for epidemics; determine road, school, and other infrastructure requirements; and forecast worldwide economic trends.
«Climate changes
predicted by the
global circulation
models would cause several percent of the Mexican population to move north [if] all other factors are held constant.»
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change
models, has
predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if
global warming continues unabated.
Kröpelin says that the new findings will help climatologists fine - tune their computer
models — which he says were wrong about what happened to the Sahara — to more accurately
predict the effect of
global warming.
The consequences of
global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst - case scenarios
predicted by the dominant climate
models, which don't fully account for the fast breakup of ice sheets and glaciers, NASA scientists said today (Aug. 26) at a press briefing.
Meehl and his colleagues used two sophisticated computer
models of
global climate to
predict what would happen under various scenarios for greenhouse gas emission controls, taking into account the oceanic time lag.