Comment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by Jim D
The cycle prior to 1910 was much weaker than the one prior to 1940. What are you talking about?
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by thomaswfuller2
I’m not asking if they’re right or wrong. Are they confident?
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by bob droege
But you were just saying “As a result, manmade global warming is not supported by the data.” Which I interpret to mean climate sensitivity to CO2 equals zero, so your estimate went from 0 to 1.3 in a...
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by capt. dallas 0.8 +/-0.2
Jim D, saltwater freezes at about -2C leaving nearly fresh ice and denser salt water to sink by convection downward. About an area the size of Australia forms and melts every season in the Antarctic...
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by ozzieostrich
R. Gates It appears we are in agreement. As you point out, the GHGs impart no extra energy to the Earth, (and I agree it is an absurd notion.) As you also point out, the insulating effect of the...
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by capt. dallas 0.8 +/-0.2
Jim D said, “Solar variations are too frequent to make it a sensible concept except over long term steps like the Maunder Minimum (which was much weaker as a forcing than doubling CO2.)” Solar is a...
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by sunshinehours1
” OK, I should have said since 1958 the sunspot numbers have been decreasing.” DUH … it had the highest peak. But no 30 year period since 1900 has had a lower average SSN. SSN had nothing to with 1910...
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by Girma
Bob What does the data tell you? http://bit.ly/HRvReF Please give me your interpretation
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by WebHubTelescope
What is obvious is that the oceans are a huge heat sink. The thermal transient is close to the characteristic Fick’s growth law.
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by sunshinehours1
Jim D, there was nothing special about 1910 to 1944 in terms of SSN unless low SSN causes warming. Even the 1938 July peak was very short ( 165.3 ) most months were much much lower. Starting around the...
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by Girma
Does not the GMT due to the ENSO oscillate about the smoothed GMT curve? Does not the GMT due to ocean cycles oscillate about the long term trend curve? The long term trend curve is almost a straight...
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by capt. dallas 0.8 +/-0.2
Actually, governor is a better term than insulator. Adding CO2 would raise the average radiant layer, that is insulation. Then changing available energy would also raise (lower) the average radiant...
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by Jim D
If you don’t like sunspot numbers you can look at the TSI reconstruction on your climate4you link below. It shows TSI rising after 1910.
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by capt. dallas 0.8 +/-0.2
You still Ficking around with diffusion?
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by sunshinehours1
jim2, February, March, April 1878 had a huge warm spike. https://sunshinehours.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/hadcrut3gl_feb.png https://sunshinehours.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/hadcrut3gl_mar.png...
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by Terry Oldberg
NW (May 11, 2012 at 2:05 am): Thank you for the stimulating comments. A prior PDF that is uninformative about the numerical value of the associated parameter is logically required in the circumstance...
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by hunter
Hansen and co. are moving on to paleoclimate because it helps them hide from the failures of their other predictions. Hansen has not done real science for decades, if one means data driven work. He has...
View ArticleComment on The legacy of climategate: Part II by Michael
The IPCC is a small bureaucracy in place to put together summary reports of existing scientific research. All the scientific research is carried by individuals and teams of scientists working at a...
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by pokerguy
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for...
View ArticleComment on Climate sensitivity discussion thread by Philip
<a href="http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~gang/eprints/eprintLovejoy/esubmissions/Climate.sensitivity.20.2.12.pdf" rel="nofollow">Another recent paper on sensitivity</a>, with one calculation...
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