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⢠Research published in peer-reviewed science
journals indicates the model-derived temperature
sensitivity of Earth accepted by the IPCC is too
large. Negative feedbacks in the climate system
reduce that sensitivity to values an order of
magnitude smaller.
⢠Establishing the historic phase relationship
between atmospheric carbon dioxide and
temperature is a necessary step toward
understanding the physical relationship between
CO2 forcing and climate change. When such
analyses are conducted, changes in CO2 are
frequently seen to lag changes in temperature by
several hundred years.
⢠Many studies reveal a large uncoupling of
temperature and CO2 throughout portions of the
historical record. Such findings contradict the
IPCCâs theory that changes in atmospheric CO2
drive changes in temperature.
⢠Atmospheric methane observations over the past
two decades reside far below the values projected
by the IPCC in each of the four Assessment
Reports it has released to date. The IPCCâs
temperature projections, which incorporate this
inflated influence, should be revised downward to
account for this discrepancy.
⢠Because agriculture accounts for almost half of
nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in some countries,
there is concern that enhanced plant growth due to
CO2 enrichment might increase the amount and
warming effect of this greenhouse gas. But field
research shows N2O emissions will likely fall as
CO2 concentrations and temperatures rise,
indicating this is actually another negative climate
feedback.
⢠The IPCC has concluded âthe net radiative
feedback due to all cloud types is likely positiveâ
(p. 9 of the Summary for Policy Makers, Second
Order Draft of AR5, dated October 5, 2012).
Contrary to that assessment, several studies
indicate the net global effect of cloud feedbacks is
a cooling, the magnitude of which may equal or
exceed the warming projected from increasing
greenhouse gases.
⢠The IPCC likely underestimates the total cooling
effect of aerosols. Studies have found their
radiative effect is comparable to or larger than the
temperature forcing caused by all the increase in
greenhouse gas concentrations recorded since
preindustrial times.
⢠Higher temperatures are known to increase
emissions of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) from the
worldâs oceans, which increases the albedo of
marine stratus clouds, which has a cooling effect.
The IPCC characterizes this chain of events as âa
rather weak aerosol-climate feedback at the global
scaleâ (p. 21 of the Technical Summary, Second
Order Draft of AR5, dated October 5, 2012), but
many studies suggest otherwise.
⢠Several other important negative forcings and
feedbacks exist in nature, about which little is
known or acknowledged by the IPCC. Such
forcings and feedbacks have been shown by
multiple scientific studies to significantly
influence Earthâs climate to a degree comparable
to that of projected anthropogenic-induced global
warming.
⢠The IPCC claims a positive feedback exists
between climate and the carbon cycle on century
to millennial time scales such that a warming
climate will result in a loss of carbon storage.
There is no empirical evidence to support such an
assertion. Just the opposite appears to be the case,
as global carbon uptake doubled over the past halfcentury.
www.nipccreport.org/reports/ccr2a/pdf/Chapter-2-Forcings-and-Feedbacks.pdf