Climate sensitivity is 3C...

...says James Annan, and he and Julia Hargreaves have a GRL paper to prove it, not to mention a barometer dropped from a tower :-)

James directs his main fire at those who have suggested rather high climate sensitivities - 6 or 10 oC. However, this is also a blast at the skeptics who argue for implausibly low values.

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JA is bored with climate sensitivity - because he knows the answer, 3 oC, and he may well be right. But other people don't seem to have realised. And (via James again, I think) I ran across Tung and Camp on climate sensitivity, and Knutti et al.. They too think its 3 oC (well 2.8 +/- 0.9; and about…
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When I was a wee mustelid, I wrote about this; and there is an RC piece, and as far as I know, its all still valid. But this post is aimed at those who put an "s" into poles in "What exactly is the mechanism that causes the poles to warm faster than the tropics as a result of climate change?" when…

dude, you should switch your time stamp to eastern daylight savings time, USA. feel free to delete this comment after you do.

your seed blog brother
razib

[Apparently I should, and I've done it. Will this make any difference? Who knows... I'll leave the comment up, in case anyeon wonders - W]