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Yet when we look at the report,
https://climateactiontracker.org/global/temperatures/
the projection is based IPCC RPC Baseline scenarios.
3.3°C 1 warming above pre-industrial levels.
I guess we need to first find the pre-industrial temperature, to see what the 3.3°C is referenced to.
In the GISS the average between 1880 and 1900 is -.22, which used to mean 13.78 °C, but is questionable now.
Whatever the case if -.22 is used as the pre-industrial baseline, then 3.3°C would be 3.08 on the GISS scale.
3.08 °C would be roughly 2.36 °C above the current decade average.
To increase that 2.36 °C, in the next 81 years, would require a sustained warming of .29 °C per decade.
The real problem with predictions like this is that we do not have ANY sustained periods of that level of warming
in the roughly 150 years of the instrument record.
The decade average highest decade growth was .238 per decade in 1945.
It looks like only 2 years in the last 70 had decade growth above 2.0 C per decade.
Now we are expected to believe we are going to have 8 sustained decades,
where the warming exceeds anything observed in the record by .05 C per decade.
 
People aren't buying the alarmism.

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Is it a silly question but given that the rise in CO2 as a proportion of the total CO2 in the air has probably seen the max already, given the low start and current comparitive high figure, surely the max rate of temperature growth has already happened?
 
Is it a silly question but given that the rise in CO2 as a proportion of the total CO2 in the air has probably seen the max already, given the low start and current comparitive high figure, surely the max rate of temperature growth has already happened?
We are already passed 50% pf the possible forcing from the first CO2 doubling.
This can be easily demonstrated with the energy imbalance equation the IPCC uses.
since 5.35 X ln(2)=~3.71 Wm-2, then 5.35 X ln(408/280)= 2.014 Wm-2,
while 5.35 X ln(560/408)= 1.69 Wm-2.
 
We are already passed 50% pf the possible forcing from the first CO2 doubling.
This can be easily demonstrated with the energy imbalance equation the IPCC uses.
since 5.35 X ln(2)=~3.71 Wm-2, then 5.35 X ln(408/280)= 2.014 Wm-2,
while 5.35 X ln(560/408)= 1.69 Wm-2.

OK,for the less maths-ey types could you do a graph of that?
 
Yeah, we need a forcing vs year graph really so you can see when the gradient was steepest.

Note; this is beyond my can-be-arsed vs ability.

that is a good idea, let me see what I can do.
 
People aren't buying the alarmism.

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People vote against a tax, therefore climate change isn't a problem!
 
Yeah, we need a forcing vs year graph really so you can see when the gradient was steepest.

Note; this is beyond my can-be-arsed vs ability.

I used the existing growth curve of .11 ppm per year, plus the average growth over the last decade.
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/gr.html
It seems the growth flattens out the curve, but still shows that there is only 1.6 Wm-2 or so left for the first doubling,
compared, to the slightly over 2 Wm-2 that have already occurred.
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Lying to advance their alarmist cause.

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Nothing to be alarmed about.

Word it however you like. People voting against a tax is not scientific evidence of... well, anything.
 
I used the existing growth curve of .11 ppm per year, plus the average growth over the last decade.
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/gr.html
It seems the growth flattens out the curve, but still shows that there is only 1.6 Wm-2 or so left for the first doubling,
compared, to the slightly over 2 Wm-2 that have already occurred.
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Isn't the rate of increase of CO2 around 2ppm/yr?

And why is it a straight line? Suely if you have a constant increase in CO2 the warming would be decreasing?
 
Nice graph, does not really show what I was after in terms of the way the warming should follow the input of constant (ish) increase in CO2 vs warming increase (reducing per increase).

I know it doesn't show what you want. A wise person would have taken that as an opportunity to revise their expectations and beliefs. Starting with this absurd notion that the CO2 increase has been constant... ish :roll: Both population and economic activity have been increasing exponentially. What kind of fantasy world are you living in?
 
I know it doesn't show what you want. A wise person would have taken that as an opportunity to revise their expectations and beliefs. Starting with this absurd notion that the CO2 increase has been constant... ish :roll: Both population and economic activity have been increasing exponentially. What kind of fantasy world are you living in?

The graphs showing CO2 levels show about a 2ppm/yr increase.

The rate of human output have indeed increased but then the rate of uptake of CO2 that the natural world has is a function of the amount in the air.

Thus the rate of increase appears to be constant-ish. Despite your want for a scary line flying off upwards.

https://www.debatepolitics.com/envi...sues/327832-atmospheric-co2-tops-408-ppm.html
 
Isn't the rate of increase of CO2 around 2ppm/yr?

And why is it a straight line? Suely if you have a constant increase in CO2 the warming would be decreasing?
The number I used was I took the average growth from the last decade, and then added ESRL's .11 ppm per year on top of that.
I think the reason the line looks straight, is the predicted growth keeps up with the loss of efficiency of CO2's response.
In any case it looks like the higher RCP's would be too high, so RPC8.5 would require a much higher growth rate.
 
The number I used was I took the average growth from the last decade, and then added ESRL's .11 ppm per year on top of that.
I think the reason the line looks straight, is the predicted growth keeps up with the loss of efficiency of CO2's response.
In any case it looks like the higher RCP's would be too high, so RPC8.5 would require a much higher growth rate.

Oh, so the 0.11ppm/yr/yr is an acceleration.

Assuming that is the case, how long before the slope reaches, or has reached, the max?
 
Oh, so the 0.11ppm/yr/yr is an acceleration.

Assuming that is the case, how long before the slope reaches, or has reached, the max?
If we were to look at the past growth like how a stock moves up and down, it looks like we hit resistance
around 3 ppm per year, it could go higher, but not without expanding our refining capability.
ESRL simply post what it is, not if it can continue.
 
The graphs showing CO2 levels show about a 2ppm/yr increase.

The rate of human output have indeed increased but then the rate of uptake of CO2 that the natural world has is a function of the amount in the air.

Thus the rate of increase appears to be constant-ish. Despite your want for a scary line flying off upwards.

https://www.debatepolitics.com/envi...sues/327832-atmospheric-co2-tops-408-ppm.html

Sure, that would be why the concentrations averaged a 0.83ppm per year increase in the 1960s, 1.9ppm per year in the 2000s and 2.36ppm per year in the 2010s :roll:

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/gl_gr.html

Pro tip; if one of the world's biggest and most thorough scientific collaboration reports says one thing, and you've glanced at a graph to 'confirm' your wishful thinking to the contrary, you're probably still the one who is wrong. As usual.
 
Sure, that would be why the concentrations averaged a 0.83ppm per year increase in the 1960s, 1.9ppm per year in the 2000s and 2.36ppm per year in the 2010s :roll:

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/gl_gr.html

Pro tip; if one of the world's biggest and most thorough scientific collaboration reports says one thing, and you've glanced at a graph to 'confirm' your wishful thinking to the contrary, you're probably still the one who is wrong. As usual.

https://www.co2.earth/

Looks a fairly straight line to me.
 
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