Sentences with phrase «positive cloud feedback»

In other words, models that predict the most warming are those that have the most positive cloud feedback.

Andrew Dresser's assumptions of positive cloud feedback are fundamentally flawed.

This positive cloud feedback will self - limit when we reach 100 % year round cloud cover everywhere, up from the current (~ 60 %?)

-- the influence of solar variations IMHO is underestimated, as these are accompanied with a positive cloud feedback (and specific influences in the stratosphere).

A positive cloud feedback loop posits a scenario whereby an initial warming of the planet, caused, for example, by increases in greenhouse gases, causes clouds to trap more energy and lead to further warming.

The usual suspects in the climate science cwrod know this and they rely on positive cloud feedback to keep the CAGW narrative alive.

Second, the feedbacks are all based on a series of assumptions that climate science will not question (water vapour, positive cloud feedback, no / tiny lapse rate change).

76) Dr Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has indicated that out of the 21 climate models tracked by the IPCC the differences in warming exhibited by those models is mostly the result of different strengths of positive cloud feedback — and that increasing CO2 is insufficient to explain global - average warming in the last 50 to 100 years.

On this topic the report merely claims «Observational evidence for a positive cloud feedback is weak, at best.»

Decreasing shortwave reflection is a positive cloud feedback when the forcing change is positive.

The positive cloud feedback operates by less reflected shortwave, as does the sea - ice albedo feedback.