Sensitivity & feedbacks

by Judith Curry
Interest is running high this week on the topic of climate sensitivity.

by Nic Lewis
A new paper on aerosol radiative forcing has important implications for estimates of climate sensitivity.

by Judith Curry
An important new paper finds that the albedo of Earth is highly regulated, mostly by clouds, with some surprising consequences.

by Rud Istvan
UPDATE:  Response from Christopher Monckton
The Monckton, Soon, Legates, and Briggs paper “Why models run hot, results from an irreducibly simple climate model” appeared in the January 2015 Science Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Hereinafter MSLB.

by Greg Goodman
Satellite data for the period surrounding the Mt Pinatubo eruption in 1991 provide a means of estimating the scale of the volcanic forcing in the tropics. A simple relaxation model is used to examine how temporal evolution of the climate response will differ from the that of the radiative forcing.

by Judith Curry
I’ve just returned from China, the first thing I did in the U.S. airport on my layover back to Atlanta was to check twitter.

by Judith Curry
I was invited to submit an op-ed regarding the recent Lewis/Curry paper on climate sensitivity.  For background, see

by Judith Curry
Our new paper on climate sensitivity is now published.

by Robert Ellison Climate sensitivity is large in the vicinity of tipping points but moderate otherwise. ‘Prediction of weather and climate are necessarily uncertain: our observations of weather and climate are uncertain, the models into which we assimilate this data … Continue reading →

by Donald Rapp This paper describes a model that uses the basics of heat transfer to demonstrate than an increase in downwelling infrared radiation associated with increased CO2 reduces heat loss from the mixed layer of the ocean, causing the … Continue reading →