Not exact matches
So the alarmist community has reacted predictably by issuing ever more apocalyptic statements, like the federal report»
Global Change Impacts in the United States» issued last week which
predicts more frequent heat waves, rising water
temperatures, more wildfires, rising disease levels, and rising sea levels — headlined, in a paper I read, as «Getting Warmer.»
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.
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.
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.
Laaksonen and his colleagues did not try to
predict how Finland's
temperatures will
change in the coming decades, but according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report, Arctic temperatures are likely to continue rising faster than the global average through the end of the 21st ce
change in the coming decades, but according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change's latest report, Arctic temperatures are likely to continue rising faster than the global average through the end of the 21st ce
Change's latest report, Arctic
temperatures are likely to continue rising faster than the
global average through the end of the 21st century.
By next year, the Argo project will have installed 3,000 floating sensors across all the oceans, offering a daily snapshot of
global patterns of water
temperature and salinity — crucial for
predicting the nature and pace of climate
change.
As for this research team's Holy Grail —
predicting the
change in average
global temperature — it begins to look more and more like an unreachable, even meaningless, goal.
Of course, while short - term
changes in sea level can be
predicted fairly accurately based on the motions of the moon and sun, it is a lot harder
predicting the ups and downs of the average
global surface
temperature — there is a lot of noise, or natural variation, in the system.
Based on regional studies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change by
Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate
change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change by
change impacts within this century if
global mean
temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5]
predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate
change by
change by 2050.
I have commented many times in these posts of the near impossibility of measuring the
changes in
global temperatures which AGW theory
predicts.
All of the models ca 2007 that the IPCC used to forecast climate
change predicted a steady increase in
temperature (based, as they were, on the assumption that CO2 is the primary driver of
temperature) and yet
global temperatures have remained essentially flat since then.
In 2005, Russian astronomer Khabibullo Abdusamatov made some waves — and not a few enemies in the
global warming «community» — by
predicting that the sun would reach a peak of activity about three years from now, to be accompanied by «dramatic
changes» in
temperatures.
The standstil of
global average
temperature predicted by the «improved» modell compared to warming
predicted from the «old» modell is nothing that happens in the future, it should have happened (but did not happen) in the past, from 1985 to 1999: The «improved» modell (green graph) shows that the
global average
temperature did not
change from 1985 (= mean 1980 - 1990) to 1999 (= mean 1994 to 2004).
It might take a little work because the axis is calibrated in CO2 rather than years, but Callendar 1938 has a graph
predicting global average
temperature change.
How can the ideal gas law
predict a trivial
change in
temperature (due to the
change in air density by substituting CO2 for oxygen) when the GCMs
predict global warming of 4 to 11 degrees?
The researchers
predict that drylands will continue to move eastward with the century, as
global temperatures continue to rise, and eventually trigger large - scale
changes.
This is particularly significant because many climate -
change alarmists conjecture that the reason
global temperatures of the 21st century are lower than their faulty climate models originally
predicted is that the Earth's oceans are absorbing all the excess heat.
Newspaper reports of climate modelling experiments normally focus on
predicted changes in
global temperature.
They report in the journal Climatic
Change that, if humans continue to burn fossil fuels at an accelerating rate, and as average
global temperatures creep up by the
predicted 4 °C above historic levels, then on the hottest days, between 10 % and 30 % of fully - loaded planes may have to remove fuel, cargo or passengers before they can take off: either that, or flights will have to be delayed to the cooler hours.
So, they didn't actually simulate sea level
changes, but instead estimated how much sea level rise they would expect from man - made
global warming, and then used computer model predictions of
temperature changes, to
predict that sea levels will have risen by 0.8 - 2 metres by 2100.
So, to be able to monitor and
predict changes in
global temperature we need more than information about the past, current and expected future level of solar activity.
Moreover,
global climate
change is expected to affect the future weather patterns in northeastern USA, especially winter
temperatures, which are
predicted to rise by between 1.7 °C to 5.4 °C in this century [25].
One of the most controversial issues emerging from the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) is the failure of
global climate models to
predict a hiatus in warming of
global surface
temperatures since 1998.
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.
Even the IEA's major climate
change study from June, which was in - part based on their World Energy Outlook from last November, also
predicted a much greater
global temperature rise of between 3.6 and 5.3 degrees Celsius before the end of the century if we can't move quickly enough away from fossil fuels, along with a sea - level rise of between 4 and 6 meters.
Climate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate
change... and
predict average
global temperatures a full 1 degree F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening every year.
This would mean that the 0.3 °C
global average
temperature rise which has been
predicted for the next decade by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change may not happen, according to the paper published in the scientific journal Nature.»
They clearly have not «proved» skill at
predicting in a hindcast mode,
changes in climate statistics on the regional scale, and even in terms of the
global average surface
temperature trend, in recent years they have overstated the positive trend.
Because radiative forcing, while it does vary somewhat with vertical profile, is relatively immune to
changes of the atmosphere due to circulation, so models can do a reasonable job of
predicting that the
global mean
temperatures increase.
Climate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate
change... and
predict average
global temperatures a full 1º F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening every year.
Over the last decade or so, the models have not shown an ability to
predict the lack (or very muted)
change in the annual average
global surface
temperature trend.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change predicts that
global average
temperatures could rise by somewhere between 2 °C and 6 °C by the end of this century.
In this context «natural variability» seems to be a catchphrase for unknown forcings and feedbacks that
change global temperature in ways that we can't
predict or quantify.
f) That models which are abject failures in
predicting changes in
global temperature trend should be used to inform policy decisions up to 100 years hence.
This chart plotting the IPCC's gold - standard (HC4) of
global temperature trends, of past and present, reveals why it is so incredibly difficult to
predict climate
change, be it of short or long - term nature.
Darn, we better stop trying to
predict which way the
global temperature will go and just call it «climate
change.»
Yet, when scientists examine the empirical
temperature measurement datasets, it becomes readily apparent that
changes in CO2 levels are not generating the expected
changes in
global temperatures, as
predicted by the immensely powerful and sophisticated (and incredibly costly) climate models.
Every time the evidentiary basis of AGW is knocked out from under it, its proponents simply
change the name (e.g.: «Global Warming» becomes «Climate Change») or the predicted effects of AGW («the earth's temperature will rise by X degrees» becomes «the earth's temperature will maybe rise or fall by X degrees&ra
change the name (e.g.: «
Global Warming» becomes «Climate
Change») or the predicted effects of AGW («the earth's temperature will rise by X degrees» becomes «the earth's temperature will maybe rise or fall by X degrees&ra
Change») or the
predicted effects of AGW («the earth's
temperature will rise by X degrees» becomes «the earth's
temperature will maybe rise or fall by X degrees»).
On the Guardian's forums, you'll find endless claims that the hockey stick graph of
global temperatures has been debunked; that sunspots are largely responsible for current
temperature changes; that the world's glaciers are advancing; that
global warming theory depends entirely on computer models; that most climate scientists in the 1970s were
predicting a new ice age.
The Paris Climate Agreement aims to limit an increase in
global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius, the point above which experts
predict climate
change's effects would be catastrophic.
Other hypotheses,
predict the opposite — that the atmospheric response will counteract the CO2 increase and result in insignificant
changes in
global temperature.
This is
predicted to produce
changes such as the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, more extreme
temperature ranges, significant
changes in weather conditions and a
global rise in average sea levels.
On the Guardian's forums, you'll find endless claims that thehockeystick graph of
global temperatures has been debunked; that sunspots are largely responsible for current
temperature changes; that the world's glaciers are advancing; that
global warming theory depends entirely on computer models; that most climate scientists in the 1970s were
predicting a new ice age.
The IPCC * itself * acknowledges that there has been no such warming now for the last 16 - 17 years; that no dramatic imminent
change is seen to that for the next couple of years at least; that the previous spell of 15 years or so was precisely the duration of warming that underlay so much of the evidence cited for its alarms of the long and terrible
global trend if forecast; that not a single model the IPCC had or has seems to have come even close to
predicting what we've now seen; that the IPCC can only suggest possible explanations for all this so logically meaning it can have no reason to believe that whatever is causing it isn't going to continue forever; that more and more studies are coming in attributing
global temperatures not to CO2 but instead other things such as solar fluctuations; that a number of predictions are now coming in that in fact say we are now in for a lengthy period of * cooling.
We should be able to
predict changes in
global temperature trends from the net latitudinal position of all the air circulation systems and regional climate
changes follow from those latitudinal shifts.
Global change models
predict that threats to Hawaii's ecosystem include sea level and
temperature rise, and pH decline [218], [219].
It is well known in the scientific literature that the computer models being used by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) have done a miserable job in predicting the change that has occurred in global temperature over the past two de
Change (IPCC) have done a miserable job in
predicting the
change that has occurred in global temperature over the past two de
change that has occurred in
global temperature over the past two decades.
Global temperature is not doing what the «official» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC)
predicted.
Allegation 3: It is said that we use graphs showing that
global temperatures have been falling since 2001 to support what is called our «claim that the climate models are wildly inaccurate», and that we have plotted predictions of equilibrium
temperature change rather than of the lesser transient
temperature change that the IPCC actually
predicts.