@Fred What Lindzen wrongly stated is that the adjustments (of aerosols) were made for the purpose of improving the match between simulation and observations – i.e., that they were fudge factors. I don’t believe any modeler has suggested anything but the opposite of that, and in the absence of evidence the modelers are deliberately untruthful, I think we can conclude that Lindzen has no basis for that allegation, and shouldn’t make it.
Fred, your third sentence beginning “I think we can conclude” appears to be based on your second sentence, “II don’t believe any modeler has suggested anything but the opposite of [adjustments serve to improve the match between simulation and observations].”
I’d be fine with this with a really tiny edit: “we” –> “I”.
You have some gall attributing illogical reasoning to the rest of us. If you seriously believe the modelers have a clue about what aerosols have been doing since 1960, I would say it was time for Judith to open up a thread on that topic. (Or reopen it if we’ve already had at least one, I haven’t been keeping track.)
Can the modelers say what the effective altitude of “the aerosols” was between 1960 and 1980? Was it 2 km, 8 km, or 15 km? The first would heat the surface, the last would cool it. Is that what the models say? If not then I’d love to understand why not.