Category Archives: Climate Change

How does temperature depend on CO2?

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Clive Best

Robert Rohde has produced a very nice animation of global temperatures as a function of CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Of course it is designed for public relations purposes in order to show increasing CO2 causes warming.  He even uses … Continue reading →

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2018 Temperature Comparisons

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Clive Best

The US Government shutdown delayed the release of the December GHCN station data. This also, perhaps surprisingly, also delayed the the Met Office/CRU results. So just how independent are they one from each other? Here is a comparison of the … Continue reading →

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Zeke’s Wonder Plot

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Clive Best

Zeke Hausfather who works for Carbon Brief and Berkeley Earth has produced a plot which shows almost perfect agreement between CMIP5 model projections and global temperature data. This is based on RCP4.5 models and a baseline of 1981-2010. First here … Continue reading →

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