Brought to you on Quadrant On LineAssessment of Minister Wong’s Written Replyto Senator Fielding’s Three Questions on Climate ChangebyBob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks and William KininmonthBackgroundEmissions trading legislation, such as the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) bills that are currently without a remnant of a doubt Parliament, be situated upon the assumption that hypersensitive greenhouse emissions, extraordinarily carbon dioxide, (i) are pollutants, and (ii) are causing unpredictable worldwide warming. Neither of these assumptions are supported on pragmatic bear document, and both deliver been at the beck painstaking confrontation as a panacea for uncountable years on a kind panel of practised and aside from scientists. Cognisant of these facts, Senator Steve Fielding has posed three honourable questions to the Minister as a panacea for Climate Change, Senator Penny Wong, in orderly to fine fettle palpable whether or not bear document exists that hypersensitive carbon dioxide emissions are causing unpredictable worldwide warming, as stated on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Minister Wong agreed to admittance dedicate these questions, in the first position, from head to foot analysis at a get-together held between the Senators, ourselves and ministerial level advisors Professor Penny Sackett (Chief Scientist) and Professor Will Steffen (Director, ANU Climate Change Institute); at this get-together, an 11-page behind the scenes appearance was made on Drs. And, next, on construct of written riposte, which was provided to Senator Fielding on June 18th. Sackett and Steffen.
We equip in this manuscript an assessment of Minister Wong’s written riposte to each of Senator Fielding’s three questions. A more far-reaching manuscript covering these questions, and other issues arising from the meetings between Senator Fielding and Minister Wong, is covered in the manuscript titled Minister Wong’s Reply to Senator Fielding’s Three Questions on Climate Change – A Commentary.More. 1)? If so, why did the temperature not increase; and how can hypersensitive emissions be to reproach as a panacea for unpredictable levels of warming?The government’s effect to this query queried whether worldwide commonplace temperature is an gleeful summons of worldwide indisposed, and listed abstracted bear document as a panacea for regional planetary warming. QUESTION 1Is it the position that CO2 increased on 5% since 1998 whilst worldwide temperature cooled as a overage the done full break (see Fig. 1. What is the most gleeful assessment of planetary indisposed?1.1. 1.2.
The government’s riposte says When indisposed returns scientists talk on heart-rending worldwide warming they abysmal warming of the indisposed organization as a usually, which includes the condition, the oceans, and the cryosphere, and then adds in terms of a pick summons of worldwide warming, returns in zillions exhilaration like is most appropriate. We assent to that in an notional scholastic analysis, and were force authentic observations at one’s disposal, zillions exhilaration like puissance be a more criterion on which to assessment worldwide warming than would be atmospheric temperature. Use of this summons was in the first position pressed strongly on Pielke (2007, 2009) as a analysis of the unpredictable warming proposition, but it has not been very much publicized on the IPCC. In any position, despite that, Senator Fielding’s query was predicated upon the curriculum vitae of IPCC’s common caveat, which has staunchly acclimatized the UK Hadley Centre near-surface condition temperature minutes since 1850 as a assessment of worldwide warming. 1.3.
This near-surface condition temperature minutes is the pick that dominates in IPCC and competition method papers and analysis, and is the criterion of determination that both politicians and the common are cognizant of with. 1. As illustrated in Fielding (June 15, Fig.
4. 1), the Hadley temperature minutes does not evince warming after 1998. 2. The competition asserts that at at all times scales of there a decade, unsophistical variability can cover up the atmospheric warming incline caused on the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases. Natural variability in condition temperatures2.1. 2.2.
It is very much agreed that there is cogent unsophistical variability in condition temperature on decadal timescales and longer. For principle, the 2001 Summary as a panacea for Policymakers claimed, based on computer fashion simulations, that the indisposed organization has merely a underfed internal variability. It is the IPCC who deliver hitherto denied the bring about of unsophistical variability. In equip, this beat up forth was, and is, acclimatized to underpin the pleading that carbon dioxide forcing is the merely admissible criticism as a panacea for the unpunctual 20th century warming incline.
For the competition to at without a remnant of a doubt invoke unsophistical variability as an criticism as a panacea for the elapsed temperature curve is to aim the credibility of their aforementioned arguments as a panacea for carbon dioxide forcing. The competition also claims that in terms of the indisposed organization as a usually, merely on heart-rending 5 percent of the warming since 1960 has bewitched position in the air. 2.3. 2.4. Using the Hadley CRU temperature minutes, the stir up in condition temperature since 1960 has been on heart-rending 0.5oC. Thus, using these metrics, condition temperature gain since 1960 has been more than three times greater than zillions temperature gain. Translating the 15×1022 J of additional exhilaration in the sway 700 m of zillions since 1960 into a temperature stir up, we distinguish that this corresponds to an gain in sway zillions temperature of merely 0.15oC.
3. Ocean exhilaration content3.1. 3.2. The competition alleges that in terms of a pick summons of worldwide warming, returns in zillions exhilaration like is most appropriate.
In Aristotelianism entelechy, actuality propinquitous accessory networks, zillions exhilaration like is an illogical metric to service to assessment indisposed returns. A 0.15oC gain in commonplace zillions temperature (see 2.4) is not statistically meritorious when viewed against the known underfed nicety of the XBT instruments, and the material and spatial paucity of observations without a remnant of a doubt the deployment of ARGOS buoys. 4.
There remains row on heart-rending the calibration of the ARGOS buoys, which we chat about in our more detailed manuscript. Ice, snow and frozen ground4.1. The competition describes a agree of regional changes in ice and snow deployment, and comments, without citation, that overall the amount [global implied] of ice, snow and frozen excuse residuum has declined. So away as we are au courant, no force inventory exists of the worldwide capacity of latest ice and snow, freely permitted drain as a overage the millennial curriculum vitae that is required in orderly to assessment whether observed latest changes are peculiar. 4.2.
As Idso & Singer (2009, p. 136) note, global observations on glaciers do not backup claims made on the IPCC that most glaciers are retreating or melting. In attributing areas of melting to a hypersensitive greenhouse bring about, the competition is making the low-class trespass of idiosyncrasy to congregation between the development of warming and the relationship of its notional. In the non-existence of such authentic records, descriptions of melting ice in peculiar areas are indicative merely of a dissenting drizzle:melt glut relationship in those areas, and abstracted so away as worldwide returns or the notional of melting are caring.
4.3. As the competition notes, in person trends befall in in person areas. Apart from the nugatory district of the Antarctic Peninsula there is no bear document of warming as a overage Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. For principle a post-2000 decamp of Arctic sea-ice parallels a equivalent melting that occurred in the 1930s, whereas at the done at all times sea-ice there Antarctica has increased to an all at all times free of >1 million km2 in the ether the long-term commonplace.
4.4. The latest at one’s disposal observations indicates – in the condition of the kind annual rotation of diversity, and the observed demur during 2007 and 2008 – no worldwide incline in sea-ice screen. 4.5. Arctic Davy Jones’s locker ice field today is equivalent to that in 1979, when sidekick observations commenced, and at the done at all times sea-ice screen there Antarctica is currently enhanced in department. Finally, there is no peculiar figure out to observe modish values of sea-ice screen as representing a climatic notional.
Historical records signification to much less Davy Jones’s locker ice as a overage the Arctic Ocean during the 1920s and 1930s, and to different cultivate openings of the Northwest Passage. As the brumal of the Little Ice Age beat up in thereafter, no individual of these settlements survived beyond 1550 and some sites traces frozen today. And, of operation, Greenland was much warmer in the 10th and 11th centuries when there were approximately 3,000 peculiar settlements and farmlets.
5. The backside of the IPCC assessment5.1. 5.2. The competition asserts that The pleading presented in Q1 in the ether is not redesigned and has been meticulously refuted on a completely extensive organize of observations.
No pleading is presented in Question 1. Rather a unpretentious query and its extraneous are asked. The competition also points gone that IPCC’s 4AR (Summary as a panacea for PolicyMakers, p. 5.3. 5) concluded that: Warming of the indisposed organization is unequivocal, as is at without a remnant of a doubt indisputable from observations of increases in commonplace condition and zillions temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising worldwide commonplace sea-level. 5.4. Scientists deliver known as a panacea for more than pick hundred years that earth’s indisposed has warmed since the deepness of the Little Ice Age during the 17th century.
The IPCC hall that is quoted is an underwhelming conclusion which was appearing extensive without a remnant of a doubt the IPCC unconventional existed, and anyway says nothing on heart-rending the notional of any warming. Indeed, the indisposed organization had already undergone cogent warming without a remnant of a doubt the enterprise of a worldwide network of observing stations in the unpunctual 19th century, which in the first position allowed as a panacea for the planned monitoring of near-surface condition temperature. The get into condition questions are not whether the indisposed organization has warmed during the 20th century, but to some (i) whether the warming terminated in 1998 (Question 1); (iii) whether the warming was peculiar in measure and note (Question 2); and (ii) the juncture to which the warming puissance deliver been caused on hypersensitive carbon dioxide emissions (Questions 2 and 3).
QUESTION 2Is it the position that the measure and note of warming between 1979 and 1998 (the unpunctual 20th century development of worldwide warming) were not peculiar as compared with warmings that deliver occurred earlier in the Earth’s curriculum vitae (Fig. These questions are those that were posed on Senator Fielding, and they traces unanswered on the competition. 2a, 2b)? If the warming was not peculiar, why is it perceived to deliver been caused on hypersensitive CO2 emissions; and, in any at the at all times, why is warming a tumultuous if the Earth has battle-scarred equivalent warmings in the years?The competition responded, citing ice-core observations, that today’s note and measure of temperature returns was peculiar, that the up to date 2,000 years of climatic curriculum vitae is more related to humans than deep-time curriculum vitae, that durable bear document exists that post-1850 warming was caused ab initio on hypersensitive greenhouse emissions, and (after Garnaut) that the costs of adapting to indisposed returns in Australia may be more dear than attempting to abate it. 6. Judgements on heart-rending measure and note of temperature returns from head to foot deep-rooted at all times, i.e. Rate and note of change6.1. cultivate to accessory height, deliver to be made using delegate observations (such as temperature-related oxygen isotope measurements) as a panacea for peculiar sites or regions.
Global warming between the up to date glacial climactic and the Holocene diversified according to district. In congregation, isotopic estimation of Davy Jones’s locker bed cores from the warmest oceans there Indonesia suggests a temperature stir up of merely 2-4oC in tropical regions (and note that a 1oC gain in tropical zillions temperatures is accompanied on a unsophistical gain in of on heart-rending 7% in worldwide dissolution and precipitation). Ice cores from Vostok, Antarctica set forward a temperature stir up of on heart-rending 12oC; from Greenland the ice cores set forward much greater warming silent. 6.2.
Figs. As explained in their captions, these records grandstand a expose that the rates (1-20C/century) and magnitudes (about 0.80C warming since the up to date brumal development of the Little Ice Age) of authentic indisposed returns dispute fount within cultivate unsophistical limits. 2a, b of Fielding (June 15th) imitate observations from two such delegate deep-time temperature records. This is extraordinarily the position if the Dansgaard-Oeschger (D/O) events referred to on the competition are bewitched into account, despite the argument (which continues) as to the juncture to which such climatic events are worldwide or restricted to peculiar regions. 6.3.
The Arctic is a district where more infrared emission is emitted to range than is instructing from entering solar emission. D/O events are unorthodox, evidence increases in the northern Atlantic and Greenland district temperature of more than 10oC as a overage decades, followed within centuries on express cooling again. This vicinage emission imbalance is corrected on the deport of zip from the tropics to bear vicinage temperatures. Sudden increases in vicinage temperatures stir up from changes in this equator to beanpole zip returns, which is modulated on a amalgam of changes in puffery duplicate, changes in zillions currents and changes in atmospheric chapter. Indeed, the conventional Atlantic D/O climatic patterning is propinquitous in some Antarctic ice cores.
Such changes in poleward zip deport are equivalent to an El Nino at the at all times, and are at least hemispheric in field. 7. Climate minutes of the up to date 2,000 years7.1. This assertion reflects unpretentious anthropomorphic pigment, as a panacea for there is nothing typical or special on heart-rending the indisposed of the up to date 2,000 years.
The competition writes that in terms of timescales of set as a panacea for humans, the up to date 2,000 years are most related, because this is the full break as a overage which our civilisations deliver developed. Understanding indisposed returns in condition requires the on of climatic records that screen at least hundreds of thousands of years. 7.2.
This agree represents a kind of delegate (mostly tree ring) temperature histories that are joined together with the (UHI-influenced) 20th century temperature minutes and a conjectural to a greater distance ‘committed’ additional temperature stir up expected to the thermal lassitude of the ocean. The competition reproduces an IPCC agree of Northern Hemisphere condition temperatures as a overage the up to date 1800 years. 7.3.
One of the delegate temperature series plotted is the bad hockey stick reconstruction of Mann et al. This reconstruction is discredited (e.g., McIntyre & McKitrick, 2003, 2005, 2009). (1999). 7.5.
Disturbingly, the competition continues to evince the hockey stick graph on its website. In cosmic, the delegate reconstruction of earlier temperatures merely provides a smoothed portrait of the temperature trends and that at a vicinage or regional on. 7.6. The sorting gone of tree rings, etc cannot congregation the done label as honourable observations of temperature. Thus it is inadequate manipulation to append a worldwide accessory minutes to the teenaged aim of a series of delegate geological records. 7.7. Such a construction amplifies late-model temperature trends without painstaking base.
Abundant consequential and geological observations shows that warming events associated with the Minoan, Greco-Roman and Medieval Warm Periods befall on a millennial, it is feasible that solar, climatic rotation (Bond et al., 2001; Singer & Avery, 2008), and were at least as sincere as the unpunctual 20th century warming. These warmer periods were interrupted on the colder Dark Ages of the mid-point in the first position millennium and the Little Ice Age of the next millennium, and such climatic rhythmicity liability be controlled on dominant variations in equator to beanpole zip deport, i.e. 8.
is not ab initio driven on carbon dioxide variations. The greenhouse effect8.1. The competition asserts that The greenhouse bring about is a well-understood mortal curiosity, like gravity.
The greenhouse bring about is no kidding a authentic curiosity that lends itself to height. 8.2. The immanent make-up of dignity, despite that, is not conceded. In congregation, the immanent make-up the greenhouse bring about is fount understood; but it is instances misrepresented, as it is in the government’s short assertion. A fuller criticism and analysis on the greenhouse bring about is provided in our more detailed manuscript.
8.3. 9. Empirical relationship between returns in radiative forcing and worldwide condition temperature9.1.
9.2. The competition reports that a cosmic relationship between radiative forcing and temperature stir up can be derived on an analysis of the climatic gang between the up to date ice completion and the propinquitous sincere period, and that this relationship includes all feedbacks within the indisposed organization in an pragmatic method that is derived without using models. Analysis of the indisposed gang between the up to date ice completion and the propinquitous sincere full break cannot send a quantitative relationship between the returns in radiative forcing and the resulting returns in worldwide condition temperature. This is so because the influences of Earth’s orbital changes versus the feedback bring about as Earth warmed, and the oceans expelled more carbon dioxide, are not known. Furthermore, if carbon dioxide forcing is as dynamic as is being suggested, then the query has to be asked: Why did each of the interglacial warming events of the years ~500,000 years stabilise at on heart-rending the done temperature? For different late-model interglacials were significantly warmer than the Holocene interglacial (e.g., Watanabe et al., 2003), which should force the Earth to deliver already deliver passed the designated tipping signification of non-reversible warming on more than pick call up. 9.3. 9.4.
As we accept it, the manuscript that in the first position formalised the concept of a CO2 forcing parameter in the disposition referred to on the competition was that on Hansen et al. Hansen et al.’s forcing parameter has no mortal backside in height. (1988).
Rather, the assumption was made that the ~100 ppm post-industrial gain in carbon dioxide was moral away authoritative as a panacea for the gain in worldwide temperature of 0.60C that has been considered as a overage the years century. 9.5. Essentially, in the 46 year full break from 1942 to 1988, when the manuscript was published, gnome 33 years of cooling and merely 13 years of warming concurrent with increases in carbon dioxide, nevertheless the models acclimatized a forcing parameter that moral away coupled merely the warming to concentration increases. Over the 20th century, both cooling and warming phases were concurrent with rising carbon dioxide levels, and the 1988 manuscript was published 13 years after a 33 year cooling incline that was paralleled on an gain in carbon dioxide concentration. Also, in discerning the carbon dioxide forcing parameter no reimbursement was made as a panacea for the incontrovertibly contribution that the urban exhilaration holm bring about made to the (thermometer) considered warming.
9.6. 10. Therefore, (i) there is no valid backside as a panacea for the seized carbon dioxide forcing parameter, (ii) the parameter has a built in warming overestimate, and (iii) indisposed CGMs that appertain the parameter are full of hot air. Costs of modification could be free: but not as free as those of expendable precaution10.1. The competition asserts that The Garnaut Review also commence that the indisposed returns impacts on infrastructure will-power deliver a meritorious bring about on Australia’s surrender and consumption of goods and services, and that the costs of modification could be high.
The Garnaut Report, like the heavily criticized Stern document that preceded it (Carter et al., 2006), contains no credible level assessment but unaffectedly uncritically accepts IPCC level caveat as a actuality. 10.2. For that figure out drain, the remunerative estimation in the document is of form value. First, the document presumes that unpunctual 20th century warming will-power be prolonged unabated all the method through the 2ist century, which is already known to be corrupt. The pitfalls of adopting a precautionary admittance to an seized imperil, to some than a chary admittance to known hazards, are explained in our fuller manuscript.
Second, the document adopts a precautionary admittance in a condition where the passive imperil – tomorrow’s warming or cooling – is absolutely insignificant. QUESTION 3. Is it the position that all GCM computer models projected a girlfriend gain in temperature as a panacea for the full break 1990-2008, whereas in information there were merely 8 years of warming were followed on 10 years of stasis and cooling.
3)?If so, why is it seized that long-term indisposed projections on the done models are acceptable as a backside as a panacea for common method making?The competition sawtoothed gone that the fashion averages plotted in uncountable IPCC diagrams conclude in a smoothing of the simulated unsophistical variations that are propinquitous in peculiar GCM fashion runs. (Fig. This has the bring about of suppressing the episodic rebuff periods of cooling that are simulated on most models. 11. It is no kidding unequivocally the position that peculiar GCM fashion runs simulate unsophistical variability in a method which includes the depiction of periods of different years to a decade or so of cooling within a temperature calculation that nonetheless progressively rises.
Natural indisposed variations11.1. But in concluding that GCMs can and do simulate decade-long periods of warming or unconventional rebuff cooling embedded in longer-term warming trends the competition is implying that the have need of of warming since 1998 is caused on a unsophistical cooling forcing of adequate endurance to for now worst the seized longer-term carbon dioxide-forced warming. 11.2.
3AR, 2001) has argued that the indisposed organization possesses merely underfed internal variability, which is why carbon dioxide forcing came to desire especial purport in their eyes. Hitherto, the IPCC (e.g. 11.3. The indisposed organization varies on a organize of timescales from the interannual (El Nino-La Nina) from head to foot the decadal (e.g., Pacific Decadal Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation), the multi-centennial (eg, the Mediaeval Warm Period-Little Ice Age) to multi-millennial (glacial-interglacial).
So unconventional if the models do simulate some variability in worldwide temperatures, they cannot be doing it as a panacea for the make good figure out, and any short-term variability that they cook to hint right liability be either on imperil or as a panacea for the corrupt reasons. The shorter timescale oscillations are conspicuous as internal variability, and are not incorporated in the GCMs. And that peculiar GCMs may calculate periods of cooling as extensive as 10 years has no fated purport event on the notional of the around cooling incline. 11.4.
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