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Tag Archives: Climate models
Reconciling climate sensitivity estimates – part III, or IV?
I mentioned in a recent post that there was a new paper that claims to reconciles climate sensitivity estimates. The basic issue is that observationally-based climate sensitivity estimates have a range of about 1.5oC to about 3oC, while climate model … Continue reading
A reduced climate sensitivity!
Now that I have your attention, I should probably make clear that this post is not about the Earth. I’m just back from a meeting where one of the speakers was Ian Boutle, lead author of a paper in which … Continue reading
Judith Curry confuses laypeople about climate models
Judith Curry has written a report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation called Climate Models for the layman. As you can imagine, the key conclusions is that climate models are not fit for the purpose of justifying political policies to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate sensitivity, ClimateBall, Judith Curry, Science, The scientific method
Tagged Climate models, GCMs, Global Warming Policy Foundation, GWPF, IPCC, Policy
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Negative emissions
I went to some Departmental talks recently and discovered that some of my colleagues are researchering possible carbon sequestration technologies. This could be very important, but appealing to negative emission technologies is often quite strongly criticised. The basic argument (which … Continue reading
Engineering the software for understanding climate change
Since Judith Curry has a guest post about global climate models and the laws of physics, I thought it would be worth posting this recently released video of a talk about climate modelling (see below). It’s by Steve Easterbrook, who … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, Global warming, Judith Curry, Research, Science
Tagged Climate models, GCMs, Steve Easterbrook, UK Met Offic, UKMO, UM, Unified Model
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Model tuning
Came across a very interesting paper on the art and science of climate model tuning. Based on the comments here, it appears that some are interpreting this as confirming their claims that climate models are tuned to give preferred results. … Continue reading
