Sentences with phrase «particularly high climate sensitivity»

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Forest et al. (2006) demonstrate that the inclusion of natural forcing affects the estimated PDF of climate sensitivity since net negative natural forcing in the second half of the 20th century favours higher sensitivities than earlier results that disregarded natural forcing (Forest et al., 2002; see Figure 9.20), particularly if the same ocean warming estimates were used.

The author's points on non-linearity and time delays are actually more relevant to the discussion in other presentations when I talked about whether the climate models that show high future sensitivities to CO2 are consistent with past history, particularly if warming in the surface temperature record is exaggerated by urban biases.

Given the range for climate sensitivity, it is clear that it is possible that we could follow a reasonably high emission pathway and not warm substantially (okay, this may not be true if we follow a particularly high emission pathway, but let's agree that there is a possibility that warming will not be substantial for some reasonable emission pathway).