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Posted on 04/09/2016 9:40:29 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Washington (AFP) - Global warming could make the planet far hotter than currently projected because today's scientific models do not correctly account for the influence of clouds, researchers said this week.
The study in the journal Science was led by researchers at Yale University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
When climate scientists look ahead to how much the planet's surface temperature may warm up in response to a doubling of carbon dioxide -- a byproduct of fossil fuel burning -- they typically predict a rise of between 2.1 and 4.7 degrees Celsius (3.75 to 8.5 degrees Fahrenheit).
But these models overestimate the ability of clouds to reflect back sunlight, and counteract warming in Earth's atmosphere, researchers said.
"We found that the climate sensitivity increased from four degrees Celsius in the default model to five to 5.3 degrees Celsius in versions that were modified to bring liquid and ice amounts into closer agreement with observations," said lead author Ivy Tan, a researcher at Yale University.
The problem is most models assume there is more ice in clouds than there actually is.
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All this is bunk.
But seriously, why would a warmer planet be bad? Different, yes, but bad?
The weather bane of humanity is cold.
More heat will create different temporate growing zones, sure.
It’s seems to me that a solar minimum would be a far greater 50-100 year concern than warming. In that case, IF CO2 did what they claim, and it doesn’t, then that would be a great thing, an added insulation from the cold.
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So the Hollywood millionaires are selling their beachfront properties??? Yeah...right.
I've given up on both Science and Nature for honest reporting on climatology. Both are pushing the AGW line.
This is not the first time Science has let its politics affect its reporting. It has misreported the effects of DDT on the eggshells of birds, and refused to correct the reports.
Inconsistency in a warmist’s Ouija Board is a terrible thing.
IF unicorns vomit too much the world could heat up by 50 degrees.
Send endless grant money and we’ll stop that from happening.
Holy panic!! Who do we send money to so it stops??
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