Sky Not Falling

Investor’s Business Daily reports an overview of research originally appearing in the American Meteorological Society’s peer-reviewed Journal of Climate. You’ll like the findings.

In the study, authors Nic Lewis and Judith Curry looked at actual temperature records and compared them with climate change computer models. What they found is that the planet has shown itself to be far less sensitive to increases in CO2 than the climate models say. As a result, they say, the planet will warm less than the models predict, even if we continue pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.

How much lower? Lewis and Curry say that their findings show temperature increases will be 30%-45% lower than the climate models say. If they are right, then there's little to worry about, even if we don't drastically reduce CO2 emissions.

Which helps us understand why, in spite of frantic predictions, nothing very dramatic has occurred. Gaia is less fragile than the climate Chicken Littles believe.