The authors find volcanic eruptions were only responsible for ~0.025C cooling over the 5 year period from 2008-2012, a rate of 0.005C cooling per year. By contrast, the globe was warming at a rate of 0.017C/year from 1979-2000 before the 'pause' in global warming, a rate that was 3.4 times higher than the cooling effect of volcanic eruptions calculated in this new paper. In addition, volcanic activity was much greater before the 'pause' than after.
Thus, volcanic activity can effectively be ruled out as an IPCC excuse for no global warming over the past 17 years.
The impact of volcanic eruptions in the period 2000–2013 on global mean temperature trends evaluated in the HadGEM2-ES climate model
Jim M. Haywood, Andy Jones, Gareth S. Jones
The slow-down in global warming over the last decade has lead to significant debate about whether the causes are of natural or anthropogenic origin. Using an ensemble of HadGEM2-ES coupled climate model simulations we investigate the impact of overlooked modest volcanic eruptions. We deduce a global mean cooling of around −0.02 to −0.03 K over the period 2008–2012. Thus while these eruptions do cause a cooling of the Earth and may therefore contribute to the slow-down in global warming, they do not appear to be the sole or primary cause.
IPCC AR5: ‘There is medium confidence that this difference between models and observations is to a substantial degree caused by unpredictable climate variability, with possible contributions from inadequacies in the solar, volcanic, and aerosol forcings used by the models and, in some models, from too strong a response to increasing greenhouse-gas forcing.’
What this means: The IPCC knows the pause is real, but has no idea what is causing it. It could be natural climate variability, the sun, volcanoes – and crucially, that the computers have been allowed to give too much weight to the effect carbon dioxide emissions (greenhouse gases) have on temperature change.
The impact of volcanic eruptions in the period 2000–2013 on global mean temperature trends evaluated in the HadGEM2-ES climate model
Jim M. Haywood, Andy Jones, Gareth S. Jones
The slow-down in global warming over the last decade has lead to significant debate about whether the causes are of natural or anthropogenic origin. Using an ensemble of HadGEM2-ES coupled climate model simulations we investigate the impact of overlooked modest volcanic eruptions. We deduce a global mean cooling of around −0.02 to −0.03 K over the period 2008–2012. Thus while these eruptions do cause a cooling of the Earth and may therefore contribute to the slow-down in global warming, they do not appear to be the sole or primary cause.
New paper finds effect of volcanoes on climate has been overestimated by factor of 2, & finds lower climate sensitivity to CO2
The '95% certainty' is that the IPCC can't be trusted
This is another case where luck has gone the way of sceptics. Hurricanes are at a multidecadal minimum. Tornadoes too.
ReplyDeleteAnd as someone who has been watching volvanoes for years and reading the USGS-Smithsonian news feed, I can't remember a decade with so few volcanic eruptions of note. If there haven't been many volcanoes erupting there's no way they can have caused the pause.
Kicking and screaming the CAGW-ers are being forced to look up at the Sun.
Volcano forcing inputs to climate models are arbitrary, widely divergent, fudge factors:
ReplyDeletehttp://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/01/mechanical-models/