Tag Archives: ECS

A lower climate sensitivity from Ring et al.

Posted on November 30, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

I was wondering if anyone had any particular insights into the Ring et al. (2012) paper Causes of the Global Warming Observed since the 19th Century? The study use a simple climate model (SCM) to model the change in global … Continue reading →

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Observational constraints on the ECS

Posted on October 3, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Correction I knew I was taking a bit of a risk writing this (as I pointed out at the beginning anyway) as there was a reasonable chance that I misunderstood something fundamental. Unsurprisingly, this appears to be true. I may … Continue reading →

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Nic Lewis and the UK Met Office

Posted on September 26, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Nic Lewis (an independent climate scientists) and the UK Met Office seem to be having a public debate about climate sensitivities and about the Met Office’s climate models. I find it quite interesting that the Met Office are engaging in … Continue reading →

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Can the ECS be less than 2 degrees?

Posted on August 5, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

I thought I would post this video of a talk by A.E. Dessler, that’s being doing the rounds. You may all already have seen it. I saw it first at Rabett Run. The video basically discusses whether or not the … Continue reading →

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Is Otto et al. (2013) just simply wrong?

Posted on May 26, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Addendum – 27 May 2013 Just in case you don’t get as far as the comments, the answer, unsurprisingly, to the question I pose in the title is No. I did not properly understand what one of the terms in … Continue reading →

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The Transient Climate Response and the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity

Posted on May 26, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

There seems to have quite a lot of dicussion recently on Watts Up With That (WUWT) about climate sensitivity, in particular the Transient Climate Response (TCR) and the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS). Some of what has been claimed on WUWT … Continue reading →

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Nic Lewis on Climate Sensitivity

Posted on May 25, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Nic Lewis has another post on Watts Up With That (WUWT) called Updated climate sensitivity estimates using aerosol-adjusted forcings and various ocean heat uptake estimates. Basically he tries various different changes in radiative forcing and ocean heat uptake rates to … Continue reading →

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