Monthly Archives: January 2020

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

Posted on January 31, 2020 by | 140 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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Posted in climate models

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

Posted on January 17, 2020 by | 249 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

Climate sensitivity in light of the latest energy imbalance evidence

Posted on January 10, 2020 by | 402 comments

by Frank Bosse

Equilibrium climate sensitivity computed from the latest energy imbalance data.

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Why the CO2 reduction pathways are too stringent

Posted on January 8, 2020 by | 303 comments

by Jacques Hagoort

Why the IPCC carbon budgets in SR1.5 are over conservative, and the CO2 reduction pathways are too stringent.

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Posted in Policy