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Thursday, July 23, 2020

"Warming" is worse than we thought ... because climate models keep getting worse

SUMMARY:
Once again 
the UN's  IPCC 
is about to tell us 
( expected in 2021 ) 
to trust an average 
of climate computer 
games, that have 
consistently 
over-predicted
global warming 
since the 1970's ?

The IPCC 
uses an average
to obscure 
the only model 
with a good 
track record:
 -- INM-CM, 
a Russian 
climate model 
that currently 
guesses 
about +1.9 C. 
of global warming 
from a doubling
of the CO2 level, 
which is 
more warming 
than we've had 
since 1975
( even if you assume, 
a worst case,
with no proof,
that ONLY CO2 
causes global 
warming. )
but at least it is
a reasonable guess,
relative to actual
warming in the past.


What do you call it when
climate models consistently 
over-predict global warming,
for 50 years in a row, and the
ONLY model that seems to 
work well ( Russian INM-CM ) 
is deliberately obscured, 
by averaging predictions
of dozens of almost all
"too hot" climate models 
together ?

That is called science fraud !

And if a computer game 
makes wrong predictions,
as almost all do, then they are
just expensive computer games,
not real models of any climate
change science on our planet !

As I have said here, about 
1,267 times before, a computer 
model predicts whatever its
owners want predicted.

A model produces a personal
opinion, not real data, such as
measurements and observations
of the real world.


DETAILS:
The coming climate change crisis
has been "coming" since the 1970s.

We've been hearing 
predictions of 
a climate crisis
for 45 to 50 years !

This is NOT about an actual
climate crisis, just an imaginary
crisis "coming" in the future.

 The "crisis" is alleged to start 
after 325 years of intermittent
global warming, since the 1690s,
which has made the climate
more moderate, and 
more pleasant.

It is claimed that global warming
will continue, which I celebrate
here in Michigan USA !

And that is a reasonable guess !

But FUTURE global warming 
is claimed to be 100% bad news, 
completely the opposite of 
PAST warming, which was 
100% good news.

There is no logical reason 
to make that wild guess 
year after year !


We have already had 
at least +1.5 degrees C. 
of global warming,
possibly +2 degrees C. 
since the 1690s,
and one of the 
biggest climate changes 
has been warmer winter 
nights in Alaska,
( at least since 1975 ).



Back in 2016 some scientists 
compared climate models with 
reality since 1979.

They picked 1979 only because
a new, and potentially much more
accurate measurement, 
began in 1979.

The use of weather satellites 
to indirectly measure warming 
in the troposphere !

Why the troposphere ?

The troposphere is the
most important location
because that's where 
greenhouse gas warming
actually happens.

The troposphere is not 
warmed by man made 
land use changes
and economic growth 
near the thermometers.

Only a small area near both
poles is missed by satellites,
and has to be guessed.

Surface "measurements"
include far more guessing
for areas with 
no thermometers,
and/or missing data.

1979 happens to be 
the satellite data
starting point, 
but 1979 is also
just a few years 
after the current 
period of warming 
began in 1975.

A 1979 staring point 
makes climate models
look their best ... 
yet they still average 
predictions of 
100% more warming (2x)
than actually happened.

In fact, CO2 levels began rising
after 1940, especially after 1950.

And there was no surface warming
measured from 1940 to 1975,
before the weather satellite era.

If you started measurements
in 1940, the climate model 
predictions would average 
close to triple (3x) 
the actual warming,
especially if you excluded
the one Russian model 
that seems to work well.



Every seven years 
the United Nations 
Intergovernmental 
Panel on Climate 
Change (IPCC) 
forecasts the average 
global temperature 
in 2100, or even 
beyond.

Calculations based on 
“general circulation models,” 
or more comprehensive 
“earth system models.”

Each report is based on 
a batchof models 
grouped together as the 
“Coupled Model 
Intercomparison 
Project”  (CMIP). 

The fifth batch, 
CMIP5, was used for
the 2013) IPCC report.

CMIP models 
can be accessed
at a Netherlands website 
known as KNMI 
Climate Explorer. 

The Russian INM-CM4 
(Institute for 
Numerical Mathematics–
Climate Model Four), 
predicted the least warming 
of all the CMIP5 models.

The 2013 IPCC 
report predicted 
a climate “sensitivity” 
( average global warming 
resulting from the doubling 
of atmospheric carbon dioxide ) 
of  +1.5C to +4.5C, 
a guess from the 1970s, 
that never seemed to change.

The sensitivity of the "cold"
Russian model was +2.1C.
at that time.

The CMIP6 batch of models 
are gradually being released 
to the public, and so far,
the range of global warming 
predictions is even larger 
than before. 

This suggests an even larger 
over-prediction of future 
global warming is coming 
next year !

The revised 
Russian 
INM-CM4.8 
model actually 
dropped 
its sensitivity 
to +1.8C, 
down from +2.1 C.
and their 
next-generation 
model, INM-CM5, 
assumes about 
+1.9 C. of CO2 
sensitivity.

Fourteen of the 
40 CMIP6 models 
( available at the time)
had sensitivities 
higher than 
the upper limit of the 
UN’s 2013 range, with two 
at a scary +5.6C. by 2100 !

For over 40 years, the sensitivity 
has been wild guessed with a 
HUGE  +1.5C  to +4.5C. range.

CMIP6 seems to be heading 
toward an even larger
+1.5C to +6.0C.  range !