New climate models suggest Paris goals may be out of reach

AFP via Yahoo! News ^ | January 13, 2020 | by Marlowe Hood

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[BenLurkin]

"We're doomed!"

[Red Badger]

Greta will not be pleased..................😯

[catnipman]

“a finding that could push the Paris treaty goals for capping global warming out of reach”

consistent with having only 11 years left before every living creature on the planet earth is doomed to destruction ...

[hinckley buzzard]

Let’s see...Oh—“It’s even worse than we thought!”

Must be approaching grant renewal time.

[goldstategop]

Nothing can be done about it. Ok then - why all the hysteria?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What have you got against models?

[PGR88]

So they’ll actually have to force India and China to reduce their CO2 emissions?

Good luck with that!

[buffaloguy]

It’s plant food you dummies.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

CO2 is nothing when compared to water vapor but let’s all ignore that because Al Gore hasn’t figured out a way how to profit from alternative-ocean companies.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Not guilty.

[ClearCase_guy]

New climate models show carbon dioxide is a more potent greenhouse gas than previously understood

I would think that experiments in the lab or elsewhere might be a better determinant for the potency of carbon dioxide.

A climate model is probably a computer simulation which is programmed to provide output based on inputs. Computer programming seems like a poor way to discover the potency of a greenhouse gas. Unless, of course, the programmer really just wants to show that.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It’s all in the makeup.

[xp38]

time to double down on propaganda

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yup. Exactly why we never see mini climate Nazi Greta shrieking at China or India.

[Stosh]

“Vastly more data and computing power has become available . . .”

The power of the computers used is almost irrelevant compared to the applicability of the models used - in particular, how one models the feedback loops associated with the teeny amount of warming expected for the small increases in CO2 (tens of parts per million over the past few decades).

And how one compares the predictions modeled in those cases depends a whole lot more on the quality of the data used in the evaluation than it does on the amount of that data.

In neither case (the quality of the modeling and the quality of the temperature data) have the alarmists been able to make a sufficiently convincing argument.

[JBW1949]

“...carbon dioxide is a more potent greenhouse gas than previously understood...”

OK....Let’s pump CO2 into greenhouses so our plants can grow even bigger....

[JBW1949]

Ricky Nelson recorded a song about Greta...”Poor Little Fool”

[Army Air Corps]

Okay, so we can just go about life as we always have...

[Don Corleone]

Turn off those damn volcanoes!!