Internal Radiative Forcing And The Illusion Of A Sensitive Climate System

[AEGeneral]

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News Internal Radiative Forcing And The Illusion Of A Sensitive Climate System By Roy Spencer

Background

Many of us, especially those who were trained as meteorologists, have long questioned the climate research community’s reliance on computerized climate models for global warming projections. In contrast to our perception that the real climate system is constantly readjusting to internal fluctuations in ways that stabilize the system, climate models built upon measured climate behavior invariably suggest a climate system that is quite sensitive - sometimes catastrophically sensitive — to perturbations such as those from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, it has been difficult to articulate our ‘hand-waving’ concerns in ways that the modelers would appreciate, i.e., through equations.

After years of pondering this issue, and after working on our two latest papers on feedbacks (Spencer et al., 2007; Spencer and Braswell, 2008, hereafter SB08), I believe that I can now explain the main reason for this dichotomy.

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[mcclane]

you can bet scientific news like this will never make it mainstream, the enviro-freaks are making sure their views are the only ones that count.