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Addressing misconceptions about Climate Sensitivity research: a Response to recent Criticisms

by Nic Lewis

The determination of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS)—the long-term warming response to doubled atmospheric CO2 concentrations—remains one of the most crucial yet challenging problems in climate science. Recent exchanges in the literature have highlighted both the complexity of this endeavor and the importance of maintaining rigorous methodological standards in the pursuit of reliable estimates.

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Important new paper challenges IPCC’s claims about climate sensitivity

by Nic Lewis

Official estimates of future global warming may be overstated.

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Gregory et al 2019: Unsound claims about bias in climate feedback and climate sensitivity estimation

By Nic Lewis

The recently published open-access paper “How accurately can the climate sensitivity to CO2 be estimated from historical climate change?” by Gregory et al.[i] makes a number of assertions, many uncontentious but others in my view unjustified, misleading or definitely incorrect.

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