Sentences with phrase «other empirical estimates»

I will go out on a limb and predict GISS will produce similar critiques of other empirical estimates in the future.

Not exact matches

Our incorporation of the nominally religious with the secular camp does reduce the size of the major religious traditions, at least in comparison with estimates by most other scholars, but seems to us to have ample empirical warrant.

Kenneth, I really think it is all about reducing the credibility of any empirical estimate which yields other than high sensitivity.

The model, which captures fuel use in the power, transport, and other energy sectors out to 2030, with fuel responsiveness parameterized to empirical literature, estimates the impacts of mitigation policies on CO2 emissions, revenue, premature deaths from local air pollution, household and industry groups.

Note for Alarmists: there is no point saying the IAMs say so or SCC so estimated $ 37 / t CO2 or whatever unless you can show the empirical evidence to calibrate the damage functions used in the IAMs or other models.

As Nic Lewis (and others) have shown, the best empirical estimate of sensitivity, based on all observed warming, is low enough that it is impossible to currently justify expensive mitigation policy.

The other day, for example, Nic Lewis at Climate Dialogue (linked and praised here) pointed out how some of the TCS estimates downweighted the empirical evidence by having priors with non-negligible probability at high values, with no evidentiary support other than expert opinion.

It seems to me that one use is to permit empirical data on specific feedbacks (e.g., the water vapor response to the cooling induced by Mt. Pinatubo in 1991) to be combined with the Planck response as well as information about other feedbacks to estimate a total climate sensitivity response to a forcing.