Dr. Andrew Dessler – Climate Science Meets the Gold Standard – Accurate Predictions
January 16, 2014
Dr. Andrew Dessler has been one of the most valuable players on the climate research team for some time. On thursday he testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Barbara Boxer’s domain.
I pulled this screen recording off the Senate EPW website, a little herky jerky but the sound is there. Written pdf here.
Key points:
The mainstream science of climate change has met the gold standard of science in that it allows scientists to make predictions that are accurate, example, stratospheric cooling/tropospheric warming, polar amplification mainly in the arctic, water vapor feedbacks,
These points fit into a more general context about how science works. Making successful predictions is the gold standard of science. If a theory successfully predicts phenomena that are later observed, one can be confident that the theory captures something essential about the real world system. The standard model has done that. For example, climate scientists predicted in 1967 that the stratosphere would cool while the troposphere warmed as a result of increasing greenhouse gases. This was observed 20 years later. Climate models predicted in the 1970s that the Arctic would warm faster the Antarctic. This has also been subsequently confirmed.
and a host of others that went unmentioned.
I’ll be downloading the whole thing and give that a listen when Cspan makes it available, will advise.
Climate Denial Crock of the Week 
January 17, 2014 at 3:23 pm
Interesting point is that Judith Curry (Co author of Thermodynamics of Atmosphere and Ocean 1998 and chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology) also gave testimony at the same hearing, she of course is sceptical and made the following points (which will delight her coolist camp followers)
“For the past 16 years, there has been no significant increase in surface temperature. There is a growing discrepancy between observations and climate model projections. Observations since 2011 have fallen below the 90% envelope of climate model projections”
“The IPCC does not have a convincing or confident explanation for this hiatus in warming.”
“There is growing evidence of decreased climate sensitivity to atmospheric carbon dioxideconcentrations”
“Based on expert judgment in light of this evidence, the IPCC 5th assessment report lowered its surface temperature projection relative to the model projections for the period 2016-2036.”
Graciously she did praise Dr Dessler however.
“Andrew Dessler did a pretty good job particularly on the verbal testimony and answering questions.”
Although her stand mystifies me (and I am sometimes suspicious, particularly with her Mail/NIPCC/WUWT contributions) it is always worth considering all points of views.
September 22, 2014 at 12:14 pm
Her stance mystifies you? Why would it given the fact that she prefers empirical evidence to narrative? She has the evidence on her side and does not hide behind models that even the IPCC has stopped referring to because they overestimated the observed trends by more than 100%.
September 23, 2014 at 11:07 am
https://climatecrocks.com/2014/09/08/study-climate-models-replicate-temperature-pause/
January 17, 2014 at 8:55 pm
He did line them up and shoot them down, didn’t he? Too bad he had to jam 10 minutes worth of ideas into 5 minutes—-the Repugs on the committee can’t think that fast.
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