I've seen many global warming skeptics/deniers raving about this paper:
"Heat Capacity, Time Constant, and Sensitivity of Earth's Climate System"
http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/pubs/HeatCapacity.pdf
Because it concludes that if the atmospheric CO2 levels double, it will only lead to a ~1°C global warming. However, as a member of RealClimate notes:
"Even if his result is correct (which it isn’t), it by no means “kills AGW theory.” It simply changes the numbers. In fact, Schwartz’s analysis implicitly assumes that the planet *is* warming, and that the primary cause is man-made greenhouse gases."
post #30 here - http://realclimate.org/index.php?p=467#comment-49237
The author of the Brookhaven paper is also pretty clearly skeptical of his own results, and notes that his model is rather simplisic.
What puzzles me is how GW deniers can say that climate models are unreliable, then claim that this climate model's results are the final nail in the coffin?!
2007-08-21
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