Posted on 05/26/2009 1:55:35 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
The most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth's climate will get in this century shows that without rapid and massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ago - and could be even worse than that.
The study uses the MIT Integrated Global Systems Model, a detailed computer simulation of global economic activity and climate processes that has been developed and refined by the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change since the early 1990s. ... the MIT model is the only one that interactively includes detailed treatment of possible changes in human activities as well - such as the degree of economic growth, with its associated energy use, in different countries.
Study co-author Ronald Prinn, the co-director of the Joint Program and director of MIT's Center for Global Change Science, says that, regarding global warming, it is important "to base our opinions and policies on the peer-reviewed science," he says. And in the peer-reviewed literature, the MIT model, unlike any other, looks in great detail at the effects of economic activity coupled with the effects of atmospheric, oceanic and biological systems. "In that sense, our work is unique," he says.
The new projections, published this month in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate, indicate a median probability of surface warming of 5.2 degrees Celsius by 2100, with a 90% probability range of 3.5 to 7.4 degrees. This can be compared to a median projected increase in the 2003 study of just 2.4 degrees.
(Excerpt) Read more at web.mit.edu ...
We are so freaking screwed (and doomed).
Whose data are they using to further falsify this junk science?
And yet not one of these climate models replicates the glacial periods and thaws that are the overwhelming bulk of the last million years.... Anyone who buys into this crap needs their heads examined.
The fewer people who believe in Global Warming the more the fear mongers ratchet up the fear.
Geez, these people are caricatures of themselves.
So it’s going to be twice as bad as nothing ... that means, umm, just working this out, bear with me ...
NOTHING
so I say relax.
...i watched a part of that documentary last night on my lemur ancestor and it said Germany used to be rain forests...
Hey, if the models say so it musts be true, after all, there is no way models can be manipulated to a deliver particular result.
Data? We don't need no steenkin' data!
We got models!
But it does keep the money flowing to the “research” universities
What a crock.
By my model my 401K should be 11.8% higher this year than last. Actual data may prove different.
Except for the pesky fact that the planet has been static since 2002, and has recently been cooling.
Lets just cut to the chase and say its one trillion times worse than we ever believed.
We don’t need no stinkin’ models.
Now THAT’S a blank sun.
I would be impressed if we fed the past 50 years data into the MIT model and it accurately predicted last year’s weather worldwide.
Did it do that?
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