Since an assortment of the scientists Matt cites have already written the WSJ to complain of his gross misrepresentation of their work,
his views on climate sensitivity seem damp as a squib in a Yorkshire coal mine, of which the Ridley estate owns several:
The continuous rise in CO2 and a constant global temperature for about a generation undermines all extremist
views on climate sensitivity to CO2.
In other words, their explanation based on natural variability for this period of time * supports * the consensus
view on climate sensitivity to increased CO2, if anything.
Not exact matches
An example was
Climate Dialogue, which published contributions from scientists with differing views on topics such as climate sensi
Climate Dialogue, which published contributions from scientists with differing
views on topics such as
climate sensi
climate sensitivity.
«My
view on this is that the research needs to broaden out to have more of a focus
on variability more generally so that a) we can predict the next few years better b) we can refine our estimates of the
sensitivity of the
climate system to increases in greenhouse gas concentrations.»
Climate skeptics tried to embrace Ruddiman simply because his
views differed from conventional models — even though
on the side of much greater
sensitivity to human intervention.
One issue is how to represent accurately the range of reasoned
views on critical questions like the
sensitivity of
climate to greenhouse gases (basically, how warm the world will get from a particular rise in gas concentrations); how fast and far seas will rise; how ecosystems will, or won't, respond.
David Appell has filed a thorough survey of research and scientists»
views on recent temperature fluctuations and
climate sensitivity at Yale Climate Media Forum — «W [h] ither Global Warming: Has it Slowed Down?
climate sensitivity at Yale
Climate Media Forum — «W [h] ither Global Warming: Has it Slowed Down?
Climate Media Forum — «W [h] ither Global Warming: Has it Slowed Down?»
The calculated impact, based
on IPCC assumptions, is likely to be
on the high side, in
view of the very high
climate sensitivity assumed for the calculation (the actual temperature / CO2 record shows us it is high by a factor of 2 to 4).
On the other hand, using that device to introduce your own opinions about
climate sensitivity unrelated to a mislabeled table struck me the same way it struck David Wojick — as a means to promote your
views publicly rather than to communicate a concern about the ostensible reason for your letter.
CAS = Commission for Atmospheric Sciences CMDP =
Climate Metrics and Diagnostic Panel CMIP = Coupled Model Intercomparison Project DAOS = Working Group
on Data Assimilation and Observing Systems GASS = Global Atmospheric System Studies panel GEWEX = Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment GLASS = Global Land - Atmosphere System Studies panel GOV = Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) Ocean
View JWGFVR = Joint Working Group
on Forecast Verification Research MJO - TF = Madden - Julian Oscillation Task Force PDEF = Working Group
on Predictability, Dynamics and Ensemble Forecasting PPP = Polar Prediction Project QPF = Quantitative precipitation forecast S2S = Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project SPARC = Stratospheric Processes and their Role in
Climate TC = Tropical cyclone WCRP = World
Climate Research Programme WCRP Grand Science Challenges •
Climate Extremes • Clouds, Circulation and
Climate Sensitivity • Melting Ice and Global Consequences • Regional Sea - Ice Change and Coastal Impacts • Water Availability WCRP JSC = Joint Scientific Committee WGCM = Working Group
on Coupled Modelling WGSIP = Working Group
on Subseasonal to Interdecadal Prediction WWRP = World Weather Research Programme YOPP = Year of Polar Prediction
To propose this as a long - term goal, it's not necessary to take a
view on new and relatively untested research about long - run
climate sensitivity.
A recent study by C10 analysed a number of different
climate variables in a set of SMEs of HadCM3 (Gordon et al. 2000, atmosphere — ocean coupled version of HadSM3) from the point of
view of global - scale model errors and
climate change forcings and feedbacks, and compared them with variables derived from the CMIP3 MME. Knutti et al. (2006) examined another SME based
on the HadSM3 model, and found a strong relationship between the magnitude of the seasonal cycle and
climate sensitivity, which was not reproduced in the CMIP3 ensemble.