The climate wars are cooling down. And it looks like the “consensus” is in error. Take that Jerry Brown. Let us start with the oceans. The oceans are huge and the atmosphere is small. Thermal mass wise. Once the heat from the sun or the atmosphere goes into the 4°C ocean it is not coming out. At least not until the ocean is warmer than the bottom of the atmosphere. That will take a while. At current rates of net energy input it will take about 700 years to heat the whole ocean by 1°C.
Climate change theory and entropy law show the correct model of the atmosphere. It is nothing like the climate modelers use. The models are in a state of “not even wrong”. Very bad indeed.
CO2? Good for plants. It will not affect planetary temperatures. Well some cooling is possible. Read the links.
Short version: what do the models leave out? The exchange between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy as you go from the top of the atmosphere to the bottom. That exchange drives convection. That convection along with the thermodynamic properties of water cools things. Really well. Without that cooling the atmosphere would be like a greenhouse. As I said – not even wrong.
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Science is hard. Really, really hard.
From the beginning, many of the assertions made by climatologists have included a whole host of qualifiers about their conclusions on climate change. But qualifiers never deter zealots with a political or social agenda. Climate science was hijacked by the Left from the beginning. It’s starting to blow up in their faces. Deservedly so.
The big scary question now is whether we might possibly see a new ice age begin within the next 30 years or so.
From my reading it looks like this is predicted to be one of the rather longer interglacials. We are about 1,000 years from the next ice age – at least.
Even if it is only 100 I think that will be long enough given the current rate of science/technology progress.