How Well Do Our Climate Models Match Our Observations?

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 20, 2014 @04:29AM from the models-meta-models-and-mega-ultra-super-models dept.

bunratty writes "According to recent articles by Roy Spencer and John Christy, our climate models have done a poor job of predicting warming due to humans burning fossil fuels. They claim that we've observed only a fraction of the warming they predict. But when I look at the source they claim to use, the State of the Climate in 2012, I see that it shows a warming of 0.7 degrees Celsius worldwide since 1980, close to the 0.8 degrees Celsius warming predicted by the climate models. Take a look at the data for yourself. How well do our predictions match our observations?"

2 of 560 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Small, but significant by mSparks43 · 2014-02-20 11:01 · Score: 0, Troll

1) easy, CO2 is a pretty shitty greenhouse gas water is much more important.
2) we've been coming out of an ice age for 10,000 years, that this remains unexplained leaves any "blame the humans" nonsense as laughable.
3) no, you dont, see one and 2
like the sea rising... panicing about a few mm when in many places it changes on a meter scale every day.
4) Warming is much better than cooling.
Re:visible and infrared [Re:Small, but measured] by mSparks43 · 2014-02-21 02:28 · Score: 0, Troll

You really think the temperature of venus is from the greenhouse effect?
That's funny.