When climate change predictions are right for the wrong reasons
Abstract Just over 40 years ago, I wrote a paper entitled “Climate change: Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?” In it, I attempted to explain why despite a rise in the atmosphere’s CO2 content there had been no significant warming. I predicted that a natural cooling was about to give...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:spr:climat:v:142:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1007_s10584-017-1927-y 2023-05-15T17:29:06+02:00 When climate change predictions are right for the wrong reasons Wally Broecker http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10584-017-1927-y unknown http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10584-017-1927-y article ftrepec 2020-12-04T13:30:39Z Abstract Just over 40 years ago, I wrote a paper entitled “Climate change: Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?” In it, I attempted to explain why despite a rise in the atmosphere’s CO2 content there had been no significant warming. I predicted that a natural cooling was about to give way to a warming, and that industrial emissions of CO2 would amplify this warming. The paper published in Science in 1975. Warming did follow in 1976–1977. However, a retrospective look shows that my analysis was flawed. What is more—and to my chagrin—based on the words “global warming” in my Science paper, I was given the title “Father of Global Warming.” Not only did I not like this title, I had done little to merit it. Global Warming, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, Camp Century, North Atlantic Oscillation Index Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Pacific |
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Abstract Just over 40 years ago, I wrote a paper entitled “Climate change: Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?” In it, I attempted to explain why despite a rise in the atmosphere’s CO2 content there had been no significant warming. I predicted that a natural cooling was about to give way to a warming, and that industrial emissions of CO2 would amplify this warming. The paper published in Science in 1975. Warming did follow in 1976–1977. However, a retrospective look shows that my analysis was flawed. What is more—and to my chagrin—based on the words “global warming” in my Science paper, I was given the title “Father of Global Warming.” Not only did I not like this title, I had done little to merit it. Global Warming, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, Camp Century, North Atlantic Oscillation Index |
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