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The stock market and AGW is a good analogy, some one says some thing bogus in America and and world markets fall.
How would this settle the issue? If temperatures rose then AGW proponents would claim vindication and cry too little too late and if they fell they would also claim vindication.vanesch said:No, but can't we look upon this in the following way:
a serious effort to reduce CO2 emissions in the coming decades would help us find out whether or not the CO2 level in the atmosphere is human-generated and what climate impact it finally has.
In other words, the effort to reduce (after a serious rise) the CO2 emissions would be part of an experimental protocol, to see if the eventual correlation between human emissions and an eventual temperature change is actually a causal link.
In other words, the billions spend, are billions spend on an experiment. Any money spend on experiments is well-spend, I'd say, as a (lunatic) scientist
Art said:How would this settle the issue? If temperatures rose then AGW proponents would claim vindication and cry too little too late and if they fell they would also claim vindication.
The same old heads I win, tails you lose ...
I'm sorry, I misunderstood you.Art said:I never argued average global temperatures don't change.
Has there not? Well, we need to look carefully to determine if "increase in global temperatures in the last 10 years" is even a meaningful quantity.However man-made emissions of CO2 don't appear to have much if anything to do with it else why has there been no increase in global temperatures for the past 10 years?
Actually, it's not.For AGW to be true then isn't a rise in temperatures a fundamental requirement?
Talking about a single data point is meaningless. As shown above, even a decade worth of data points is only moderately useful.Evo said:What about 2001?
I don't think that's accurate. If I'm not mistaken, sea surface temperatures have been increasing as expected, but deep sea temperatures in recent years have dropped due to the slow migration of Arctic deep waters resulting from increased melting of polar ice.Evo said:What about the cooling oceans that they just discovered that was a complete surprise? They said the oceans were getting warmer, but after actually testing, found they're getting colder.
If I recall correctly, the last IPCC report included very specific predictions based on different scenarios for CO2 emissions. I think, at the very least, if we follow one of those scenarios and observe temperatures that are very different from their predictions, they will have to admit that there are flaws in their model.Art said:How would this settle the issue? If temperatures rose then AGW proponents would claim vindication and cry too little too late and if they fell they would also claim vindication.
Art said:How would this settle the issue? If temperatures rose then AGW proponents would claim vindication and cry too little too late and if they fell they would also claim vindication.
Gokul43201 said:Now if you look at global temperature data (from GHCN) for the last 9 years, do a linear least squares fit and extract a slope, you get a number of +3.40K/cent. That is a huge warming trend...but is it meaningful? Adding one more year (1998, which was a really warm year) to the dataset, reduces the trend to +1.94K/cent. That's still a large, positive warming trend, but the number has changed a fair bit. If you include 1997, the trend becomes +2.49K/cent. A smaller change, but still not small enough for a good estimate of the trend.
For this level of discrimination, it doesn't look like we get enough S/N from just a single decade of data. It appears that HADCRUT and MSU2LT decadal trend numbers are lower primarily due to the increased anomaly in 1998 for those two sets compared to the other 2. I wonder if the numbers will not all look much closer if you extend the set down to say 1996, or if you start at 1999, instead of starting at the highly anomalous 1998 (strong El Nino year).Andre said:Indeed trends are useless due to the limited data and start/end point bias. But then again, what is global temperature? There are four major data sets monitoring "global temperature" of which the chosen one above, GISS of GHCN, happens to show the strongest warming trend 0.19 degrees per decade (d/d) as of 1979 (starting point of the satellite series). NOAA and HADCRUT (of the Hadley Met office UK) tie second place with 0.17 d/d, while the Satellite measured lower troposhere temperature (MSU2LT) is showing 0.14 d/d. If we look at the same ten years, curiously enough GHCN increased the trend slightly (0.2 d/d) whereas all others decreased, NOAA 0.13 d/d, HADCRUT 0.04 d/d and MSU2LT: 0.06 d/d. As a table:
Period:...1979-2007...1998-2007
GHCN:...0.193...0.199
NOAA:...0.170...0.127
HADCRUT:..0.170...0.041
MSU2LT...0.142...0.057
I'm not very familiar with all the pros and cons of the different measurements. But it is at least a little encouraging that over the 18 year period, all data sets agree to about a 60% confidence level, and the first 3 out of the 4 sets agree to better than a 95% confidence level. How well do HADCRUT and MSU2LT agree with GHCN over longer periods?See the uploaded graph for comparison. So why are not all graphs identical? For the choice of ground stations, there is the individual bias of changing land use, sensor discontinuities, urban heat island effect, local micro climate changes, areas not covered, etc. The satellite temperature is biased by a small side band of higher level temperatures and satellite drift. Each set is supposed to be best corrected for those. Apparantly,there are some differences in assumptions.
Do you mean downtrend or uptrend? I'm not sure which change you are talking about. It looks to me like any "change" is not real, and is mostly an artifact of a small dataset with a slope dominated by end-point selection.Additional data:
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/anomalies/annual.land_and_ocean.90S.90N.df_1901-2000mean.dat[/URL]
[url=http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/diagnostics/global/nh+sh/monthly]HADCRUT[/url]
[PLAIN]http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/tltglhmam_5.2
So what caused this recent uptrend, which may or may not be reversing?
In my opinion, the biggest reason for the "downtrend" seen in the bottom 3 measurements in your table is the 97-98 El Nino event.Remember that we try to solve a single equation with N variable forcing functions.
Apart from increasing greenhouse effect could we also take in consideration:
For the Anthropogenic -part:
- black soot
- aircraft contrail induced cirrus clouds
- direct industrial warmth and additional artificially produced water vapor affecting local sensors
For the natural part:
- Recovery from an La Nina dominated 1960s-1970s to the El Nino dominated 1980s -1990s
- Cloud albedo changes
- Reversals of the North Atlantic Oscillation
- Solar changes.
The third ingredient is that of a saturated lapse rate gradient near the center of rotation of the storm. A saturated lapse rate insures latent heat will be released at a maximum rate. Hurricanes are warm core storms. The heat hurricanes generate is from the condensation of water vapor as it convectively rises around the eye wall. The lapse rate must be unstable around the eyewall to insure rising parcels of air will continue to rise and condense water vapor.
Its coming down already in the US, 1.8% in 2006vanesch said:We shouldn't (and we won't) reduce our CO2 emissions too soon. ...
mheslep said:Its coming down already in the US, 1.8% in 2006
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/downloads/08_ES.pdf, Table ES-2
-Apparently due fossil fuel price increases and reductions in US manufacturing.
2-5 % increase estimated per year, and observed: 11% per year...The researchers' most conservative forecast predicts that by 2010, there will be an increase of 600 million metric tons of carbon emissions in China over the country's levels in 2000. This growth from China alone would dramatically overshadow the 116 million metric tons of carbon emissions reductions pledged by all the developed countries in the Kyoto Protocol.
The protocol was never ratified in the United States, which was the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide until 2006, when China became the largest emitter.
Andre said:It's off topic but an immediate drastic reduction of emission is attainable by stopping heating houses electrically. It's a big big waste. I estimate that for every pound of fuel (gas oil, whatever) burned directly in your house to warm, the electrical power plant has to burn about 4 - 5 lbs. The biggest losses are the limited effectiveness of engines driving generators and the distribution through the power line net
Perhaps, but there's a known correlation with economic growth and the US economy tanked in '01. Constant US emissions is a big change from the previous decade. DOE credits:vanesch said:A similar decrease was observed from 2000-2001. This is within the fluctuations. The data seem compatible with a constant emission level since about 2000.
for the '06 decrease.favorable weather conditions; higher energy prices; a decline in the carbon intensity of electric power generation that resulted from increased use of natural gas, the least carbon-intensive fossil fuel; and greater reliance on non-fossil energy sources.
Yes I wonder how much of that could be credited to the freezing more nuclear power in the US just when it started booming elsewhere. In any case, recently emissions per GDP are improving dramatically in the US, 10% better from '02 to '06.Point is, the US has an extremely bad emission profile per GDP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ratio_of_GDP_to_carbon_dioxide_emissions
Compared to most European countries for instance, they don't do very well. So it shouldn't be difficult to improve at least a little bit there.
mheslep said:Yes I wonder how much of that could be credited to the freezing more nuclear power in the US just when it started booming elsewhere. In any case, recently emissions per GDP are improving dramatically in the US, 10% better from '02 to '06.
Agreed. This and the mention of other Goddard work up thread gives me chance to discuss "[url[/URL], [I]Global Climate Changes as Forecast by Goddard Institute for Space Studies Three Dimensional Model[/I]Andre said:I seem to remember that science is about falsifiability. Processing data following a hypothesis would set a prediction...
The CO2 growth rate increased rapidly until the late 1970s,
more than doubling in 15 years (Fig. 6A). But the growth rate
has been flat in the past 20 years, despite moderate continued
growth of fossil fuel use and a widespread perception, albeit
unquantified, that the rate of deforestation has also increased.
Apparently the rate of uptake by CO2 sinks, either the ocean,
or, more likely, forests and soils, has increased.
I don't see the basis for this statement.Real-world GHG climate forcing (17) so far has followed a
course closest to scenario B. The real world even had one large
volcanic eruption in the 1990s, Mount Pinatubo in 1991, whereas
scenario B placed a volcano in 1995.
wolram said:I have been reading this page and quite honestly i have a headache trying to sort out who is right.
http://www.john-daly.com/index.htm
STILL WAITING FOR GREENHOUSE.
Andre said:The Onion? Is that peer reviewed or satire?
Andre said:The Onion? Is that peer reviewed or satire?