Tag Archives: Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity

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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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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