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Sensitivity are we? About Climate Sensitivity and The New IPCC Report

By Bruce Melton PEmodeling

Reports of downgrading of climate change issues in the new report are entertaining, but grossly wrong. Climate sensitivity is one such issue that has made the news recently. The reports are that sensitivity has been downgraded—that it is less than it was in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4; this report is AR5) and this is…

September 30, 2013

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The Biggest Misunderstanding About Climate Change (part 2 of 2)

By Bruce Melton PEin-depth and Popular Press, Temperature

After twenty years of the D & D game climate change is much worse than it would have been if we had of started reducing emissions as the Kyoto Protocol, and nearly every single climate scientist on the planet suggested was prudent. First published on the Rag Blog, August 8, 2012. Before I tell you…

December 4, 2012

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Remember, average global warming over land is double the global average because of the cooling influence of our oceans and ice sheets, or 3.56 degrees C in December (6.4 F). and the average over the arctic is four times the global average or 7.12 C (12.8 F). Importantly, the increase in extreme temperature is far greater than the average, and extreme weather increases nonlinearly because of the basics of heat and energy physics, where a little warming does not create a little more extremeness in the weather, it creates a lot more.

Sensitivity are we? About Climate Sensitivity and The New IPCC Report

The Biggest Misunderstanding About Climate Change (part 2 of 2)

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