Short Takes — 21

A Random Thought for a Sunday Afternoon — Field Notes on the Climate Apocalypse.

The High Arctic is where the HEAT ends up on our planet. It flows there and BUILDS UP really FAST. WAY faster than our mainstrean climate models predicted.

SO. I was thinking about Arctic, or Polar, Amplification today. Suddenly it occurred to me that it can be used to determine CLIMATE SENSITIVITY.

I know that a lot of people here still listen to “mainstream” Climate Science and the IPCC models and forecasts. Almost EVERYONE does, that’s why they are “mainstream”.

In those models 2XCO2 is believed to be +2.6°C to +3.6°C.

If you have been reading my stuff, you know that.

These models are based on what ONE Faction of Climate Science, the Moderates, observed about the Climate System in 1979.

The models of the Moderates only recently dropped estimates lower that +2.6°C. We are ALREADY at +1.5°C at 420ppm CO2 levels. Holding onto +1.8°C seems ridiculous in the face of that reality.

To believe in +2.6°C as an estimate, you have to believe that adding another 140ppm of CO2 to the atmosphere will only warm the earth another +1°C. That’s what the “Hopium Peddlers” are asking you to believe…