Wednesday, June 01, 2016

Applying Basic Physics to Climate

Applying Basic Physics to Climate · Science Speak:
"A mistake in climate model architecture changes everything.
Heat trapped by increasing carbon dioxide just reroutes to space from water vapor instead.
The scare over carbon dioxide was just due to a simple modelling error.
A whole category of feedbacks was omitted, which greatly exaggerated the calculated sensitivity to carbon dioxide.
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The scientists who believe in the carbon dioxide theory of global warming do so essentially because of the application of “basic physics” to climate, by a model that is ubiquitous and traditional in climate science. 
This model is rarely named, but is sometimes referred to as the “forcing-feedback framework/paradigm.”
Explicitly called the “forcing-feedback model” (FFM) here, this pen-and-paper model estimates the sensitivity of the global temperature to increasing carbon dioxide..."

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