Posted on 09/12/2013 3:02:18 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Climate models wildly overestimated global warming, study finds
By Maxim Lott
Published September 12, 2013
| FoxNews.com
Can you rely on the weather forecast? Maybe not, at least when it comes to global warming predictions over short time periods.
Thats the upshot of a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change that compared 117 climate predictions made in the 1990's to the actual amount of warming. Out of 117 predictions, the studys author told FoxNews.com, three were roughly accurate and 114 overestimated the amount of warming. On average, the predictions forecasted two times more global warming than actually occurred.
Some scientists say the study shows that climate modelers need to go back to the drawing board.
"It's a real problem ... it shows that there really is something that needs to be fixed in the climate models," climate scientist John Christy, a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, told FoxNews.com.
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