Tag Archives: GCM

A challenge for climate models

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Clive Best

Should we bet the future of the world’s economy based on AR5 projections of future climate change? The earth’s climate has been dominated by a series of glaciations for the last 3 million years. For the last 800,000 years  brief … Continue reading →

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Radiative Forcing of CO2

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Clive Best

This post examines how radiative forcing depends on CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. In CO2 greenhouse demystified, we calculated the effective emission height where “thermal” photons escape to space . This height depends on the lapse rate temperature and defines … Continue reading →

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Global exaggeration ?

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Clive Best

I rather suspect that climate scientists have consciously or sub-consciously tended to exaggerate future scenarios in order to boost AGW in the public consciousness as the biggest single threat to mankind. On balance, it now seems far more likely that … Continue reading →

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