Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming....
A new study suggests the earth's climate is nowhere near as sensitive to CO2 than the IPCC claims...
New research from Stephen Schwartz of Brookhaven National Lab concludes that the Earth’s climate is only about one-third as sensitive to carbon dioxide as the IPCC assumes. Schwartz’s study is “in press” at the Journal of Geophysical Research and you can download a preprint of the study here.
According to Schwartz’s results, which are based on the empirical relationship between trends in surface temperature and ocean heat content, doubling the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere would result in a 1.1oC increase in average temperature (0.1–2.1oC, two standard deviation uncertainty range). Schwartz’s result is 63% lower than the IPCC’s estimate of 3oC for a doubling of CO2 (2.0–4.5oC, 2SD range).
You can download the study, soon to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research here...
posted by GayandRight @ 10:06 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for the link, Fred. I've downloaded it already to my hard drive, and shall read it when I have a bit more time.
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home