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At a recent debate at Oxford University, organized by the OU Engineering Society, I gave the undergraduates an argument from process engineering (which you will find
in outline
in my Union College presentation, and
in more detail
in my Hartford College lecture) to the effect that the closed -
loop temperature -
feedback gain
in the climate system (i.e., the
product of the Planck parameter and the net sum of all unamplified
feedbacks) can not much exceed 0.1, implying at most 1.3 K of warming per CO2 doubling, compared with the IPCC's central estimate of 3.3 K.