Not exact matches
The response to global
warming of deep convective clouds is also a substantial source of uncertainty in
projections since current models
predict different responses of these clouds.
None of this «oh, natural variation and cool spells are expected to interrupt the
warming (for more than a year or two)» crap... that's not what has been
predicted, and if temperatures do not rebound in a big way soon, AGW
projections will continue to look foolish.
Even if the study were right... (which it is not) mainstream scientists use * three * methods to
predict a global
warming trend... not just climate computer models (which stand up extremely well for general
projections by the way) under world - wide scrutiny... and have for all intents and purposes already correctly
predicted the future -(Hansen 1988 in front of Congress and Pinatubo).
Citing the work of Dr. John Christy and Richard McNider at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), which compared climate model
projections with temperatures measured independently by satellites and weather balloons, he said «the average
warming predicted to have occurred since 1979 (when the satellite data starts) is approximately three times larger than what is being observed.»
Clearly, observed temperature trends are
predicting a future temp that resembles the IPCC
projection if CO2 was held constant - the actual trends are multiple times below the «runaway» and «accelerating» global
warming that Obama and the IPCC still push.
But a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that the
projections of climate change that have been made by the current family of computerized climate models has been overdone — that the world will
warm up significantly less than has been
predicted as a result of our ongoing carbon dioxide emissions.
If the only evidence we have for AGW are the model
projections and none of them
predicted what is actually happening, how can anyone
predict a resumption in
warming in 10, 20 or 30 years.
Put this all together, and you find that while individual solutions of the climate equations may have
predicted the slowed
warming of the last few years, that single solution wasn't statistically valid as a
projection and so was given only a small weight in the overall model or multi-model means.
However, the climate
projections that are incorporated in Tol's economic model are likely wrong — they
predict too much
warming from future carbon dioxide emissions.
The impact on our «understanding and attributing climate change» is major, of course: if up to 50 % of past
warming can be attributed to solar forcing (as many solar studies have concluded) then the whole model -
predicted (2xCO2) climate sensitivity estimates are in serious question and, with these, all the
projections for future climate change caused by AGW.
The «pause» and the many observation - based studies showing a much lower 2xCO2 ECS than previously
predicted by the models cited by IPCC in AR4, gave IPCC the possibility for a paradigm shift to refocus away from its CAGW premise to one of reduced
warming projections based on the lower observed CO2 sensitivity.
These
projections, summarized, by the IPCC in 2007,
predict a significant
warming of the planet unless drastic decisions about greenhouse gases emissions are taken, and perhaps it is already too late to fix the problem, people have being also told.
The lack of
warming for more than a decade — indeed, the smaller - than -
predicted warming over the 22 years since the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing
projections — suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much
warming additional CO2 can cause.