Global Warming Predictions versus reality

[mop]

I have decided to start a thread wherein we will look at Global Warming predictions that have failed to materialize. These can range from anything like less snow to droughts, to higher temperatures, etc.

I will include, from time to time, new studies that appear to throw into question previous claims made by AGW orthodoxy. To get started, let's look at this new paper (I am not clear if it has been peer-reviewed so I am specifically NOT making that claim). This study suggests that we have possibly misrepresented the negative cloud feedback by 2 to 4 times. This alone, if true, would call into serious question the role of CO2 in the atmosphere when considered as part of a dynamic system. From the paper:

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[general35]

im still trying to get over the global cooling predictions from all the scientists in the 1980's. i guess they figured there was more grant money in warming and changed their minds.

 

[MojoMan]

But now they are changing strategy again. Apparently now they are trying to generate alarm that the climate is changing, while insisting that only they can save us from such a dire circumstance. Unfortunately for them, pretty much everybody who is not mentally retarded or in some other way mentally disabled knows that the climate has been changing constantly since the initial formation of the Earth over 4 billion years ago. As a result, this latest approach appears to be even less effective than the last one. But they seem to be sticking with it for the time being. Sooner or later they are going to have to change their story again though. That should be good for another laugh if nothing else.

 

[Monahorns]

Someone at the San Diego Zoo sure thinks they have it figured out. They had a chart showing CO2 concentrations since 1150 AD. And they marked 320-330 ppm as the "optimum" level of CO2. In 1150 there was 280 ppm. Good thing the industrial revolution happened, we just overshot.

 

[mop]

here is another fascinating new study out that shows that the medieval period in China was also (I say "also" because many studies have shown this was indeed a worldwide phenomenon and note merely a isolate European Climate event) warmer than today and that the rate of warming was more rapid than what we have seen in the past Century. Chinese MWP was warmer than today and more extreme in its rise.

 

[mop]

Here is another peer-reviewed study that shows that we have radically underestimated the role of the cloud albedo feedback. This study suggests that since 1990 alone we have seen about 291% of what we have blamed CO2 for since 1900. In other words, clouds may have MUCH more to say about warming than CO2 does. To quote from the study's author:

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