A new report published by a team of prominent climate scientists confirms what many skeptics have pointed out for years: the climate models have overestimated the amount of global warming and failed to predict what climatologists call the warming "hiatus," over 20 years of almost no change in temperatures.
The report, published in the journal Nature Geoscience on September 18, acknowledges that most of the models of warming trends failed to predict the "slowdown" in warming post-2000, resulting in less pronounced warming than predicted and thus more room in the CO2 "emissions budget" for the coming decades. The report in part intends to "reset" the estimations for the new predictions on when the earth will hit what the U.N. has determined to be dangerous warming levels.
Climate Scientists: Climate Models Have Overestimated Global Warming
The report, published in the journal Nature Geoscience on September 18, acknowledges that most of the models of warming trends failed to predict the "slowdown" in warming post-2000, resulting in less pronounced warming than predicted and thus more room in the CO2 "emissions budget" for the coming decades. The report in part intends to "reset" the estimations for the new predictions on when the earth will hit what the U.N. has determined to be dangerous warming levels.
Climate Scientists: Climate Models Have Overestimated Global Warming