Category Archives: Sensitivity & feedbacks

Update on the strength of aerosol forcing

Posted on July 29, 2017 | 298 comments

by Frank Bosse

Increasing evidence of small aerosol forcing supports the importance of internal variability in explaining inter hemispheric differences in temperature variability.

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Does a new paper really reconcile instrumental and model-based climate sensitivity estimates?

Posted on July 8, 2017 | 122 comments

by Nic Lewis

A new paper in Science Advances by Cristian Proistosescu and Peter Huybers (hereafter PH17) claims that accounting for the decline in feedback strength over time that occurs in most CMIP5 coupled global climate models (GCMs), brings observationally-based climate sensitivity estimates from historical records into line with model-derived estimates.

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How inconstant are climate feedbacks – and does it matter?

Posted on April 18, 2017 | 229 comments

by Nic Lewis

Kyle Armour has a new paper out in Nature Climate Change: “Energy budget constraints on climate sensitivity in light of inconstant climate feedbacks”.

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Rethinking the Social Cost of Carbon

Posted on January 17, 2017 | 203 comments

by Judith Curry

The Social Cost of Carbon is emerging as a major source of contention in the Trump Administration.

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Posted in Economics, Policy, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Beyond Physics: Advanced Biology and Climate Change

Posted on January 15, 2017 | 286 comments

by Clive Hambler

Reflections on the stabilization of Earth’s climate by life.

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Internal climate variability as a confounding factor in climate sensitivity estimates

Posted on December 29, 2016 | 333 comments

by Frank Bosse

Towards eliminating multi-decadal natural oscillations in determination of the Transient Climate Response (TCR) to CO2.
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Tamino’s adjusted temperature records and the TCR

Posted on October 26, 2016 | 215 comments

by Frank Bosse

Separating out the impacts of internal variability on evaluations of TCR.

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Posted in Data and observations, Sensitivity & feedbacks