Category Archives: Sensitivity & feedbacks

What’s the worst case? Climate sensitivity

Posted on April 1, 2019 by | 93 comments

by Judith Curry

Are values of equilibrium climate sensitivity > 4.5 C plausible?

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Why climate predictions are so difficult

Posted on March 30, 2019 by | 110 comments

by Judith Curry

An insightful interview with Bjorn Stevens.

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Climate sensitivity calculator app

Posted on March 18, 2019 by | 132 comments

by Alberto Zaragoza Comendador

How sensitive is the Earth’s climate to greenhouse gases? Speaking about carbon dioxide in particular, how much would air temperatures increase if we doubled atmospheric concentrations of said gas?

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Reconstructing a dataset of observed global temperatures 1950-2016 from human and natural influences

Posted on January 3, 2019 by | 191 comments

by Frank Bosse

A demonstration that multidecadal variation since 1950 leads to overestimation of the Transient Climate Response (TCR).

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Climate sensitivity to cumulative carbon emissions

Posted on December 11, 2018 by | 220 comments

By Nic Lewis

An observational estimate of transient (multidecadal) warming relative to cumulative CO2 emissions is little over half that per IPCC AR5 projections.

AR5 claims that CO2-caused warming would be undiminished for 1000 years after emissions cease, but observations indicate that it would halve. Continue reading →

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Warming patterns are unlikely to explain low historical estimates of climate sensitivity

Posted on September 5, 2018 by | 150 comments

By Nic Lewis

A critique of of a new paper by Andrews  et al., Accounting for changing temperature patterns increases historical estimates of climate sensitivity.

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Hothouse Earth

Posted on August 8, 2018 by | 379 comments

by Judith Curry

We need to raise the bar on how we think about the possible worst case scenario for climate change.

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