But you don't need to be a global warming denialist, or even a sceptic to be part of the 56 % of us who are unconvinced of science's current ability to
successfully model the climate.
Not exact matches
Professor Gavin Foster, from the University of Southampton, said: «The Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change have shown that climate models can successfully simulate climates from the freezing world of the last Ice Age, to the intense warmth of the «Eocene greenhouse», 50 million yea
Climate Change have shown that
climate models can successfully simulate climates from the freezing world of the last Ice Age, to the intense warmth of the «Eocene greenhouse», 50 million yea
climate models can
successfully simulate
climates from the freezing world of the last Ice Age, to the intense warmth of the «Eocene greenhouse», 50 million years ago.
Researchers from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) have
successfully improved the accuracy of a regional
climate model in predicting the characteristics of clouds.
I wonder if there is a non-equilibrium quasi steady state non-reproducible thermodynamic system, one with a vast number of internal degrees of freedom (other than the terrestrial
climate system), which is
successfully described by a computational
model.
Global
climate models have
successfully predicted the rise in temperature as greenhouse gases increased, the cooling of the stratosphere as the troposphere warmed, polar amplification due the ice - albedo effect and other effects, greater increase in nighttime than in daytime temperatures, and the magnitude and duration of the cooling from the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
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While there are uncertainties with
climate models, they
successfully reproduce the past and have made predictions that have been subsequently confirmed by observations.
Fyfe and colleagues (2013) find that the observed warming over the periods 1993 - 2012 and 1998 - 2012 is significantly less than the warming in
climate model simulations, but that the same
models successfully simulate the rate of warming over the 1900 - 2012 period.
Climate model simulations confirm that an Ice Age can indeed be started in this way, while simple conceptual
models have been used to
successfully «hindcast» the onset of past glaciations based on the orbital changes.
In the future, Earth's plants should be able to
successfully adjust their physiology to accommodate a warming of the magnitude and rate - of - rise that is typically predicted by
climate models to accompany the projected future increase in the air's CO2 content.
No
model has ever
successfully predicted any future
climate sequence.
Scientists from NASA and Columbia University, New York, have used computer
modeling to
successfully reproduce an abrupt
climate change that took place 8,200 years ago.
Climate models have
successfully predicted the loss of Arctic sea ice, sea level rise and the geographic pattern of global warming.
If IPCC
climate models are ever to
successfully predict future
climate changes, they first need to be able to predict the variability of the northern Pacific ocean.
As it stands, current
climate modelling computerised conclusions can not even
successfully reproduce historical
climate conditions with any accuracy?
While there may be some die - hards who haven't gotten the word yet, we know now that our
climate can not be
successfully modeled.
My recollection was that in another context, when confronted with the fact that
climate models have not been
successfully validated against temperature records, or general global
climate, Gavin responded that that type of validation was not necessary.
New efforts are needed in the development of
models, which
successfully represent the space - time dynamics interaction between soil,
climate and vegetation.
Furthermore, the statistical methodology that is used to estimate the
model can
successfully recover the values for the transient
climate response from temperature simulations generated by the coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation
models run for CMIP (26).
A key problem for reducing the uncertainty in
climate projections is historical records of change are often too short to test the skill of
climate models, raising concerns over our ability to
successfully plan for the future.
The 20th century is very
successfully hindcasted by all the major
climate models.
Nevertheless, present - day
climate GCMs are able to
successfully model the seasonal variability of the
climate system.
You precede the seventeen items with «Global
Climate Models have successfully predicted:» Now, there are a lot of models in that well from which you
Models have
successfully predicted:» Now, there are a lot of
models in that well from which you
models in that well from which you draw.
Climate models have also
successfully predicted many climatic events we are already experiencing — extreme events, like 100 - year floods occurring twice within 15 years, or the extended heat waves that have killed hundreds of thousands of people and uncountable wild animals and plants.
There are two major questions in
climate modeling - can they accurately reproduce the past (hindcasting) and can they
successfully predict the future?
Dr. Dessler [explaining the «standard
model,» which Dr. Dessler calls the «mainstream theory of
climate influence»]: The standard
model explains just about everything we've seen and has
successfully predicted phenomena in the
climate system.