Week in review – science edition

Posted on February 15, 2020 by | 137 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Plausible scenarios for climate change: 2020-2050

Posted on February 13, 2020 by | 196 comments

by Judith Curry

A range of scenarios for global mean surface temperature change between 2020 and 2050, derived using a semi-empirical approach. All three modes of natural climate variability – volcanoes, solar and internal variability – are expected to act in the direction of cooling during this period.

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Posted in climate models, Sensitivity & feedbacks, Solar, Uncertainty

Inconsistency between historical and future CMIP5 simulations

Posted on February 11, 2020 by | 67 comments

by Kenneth Fritsch

Identification of significant differences between the historical and future CMIP5 simulations for intrinsic climate sensitivities.

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Economic impact of energy consumption change caused by global warming

Posted on February 8, 2020 by | 159 comments

by Peter Lang and Ken Gregory

A new paper ‘Economic impact of energy consumption change caused by global warming’ finds global warming may be beneficial.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

Analysis of a carbon forecast gone wrong: the case of the IPCC FAR

Posted on January 31, 2020 by | 138 comments

by Alberto Zaragoza Comendador

The IPCC’s First Assessment Report (FAR) made forecasts or projections of future concentrations of carbon dioxide that turned out to be too high.

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Week in review – science edition

Posted on January 25, 2020 by | 489 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week

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Explaining the Discrepancies Between Hausfather et al. (2019) and Lewis&Curry (2018)

Posted on January 17, 2020 by | 245 comments

by Ross McKitrick

Challenging the claim that a large set of climate model runs published since 1970’s are consistent with observations for the right reasons.

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Posted in climate models, Sensitivity & feedbacks