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An Error In The 2007 IPCC Statement For Policymakers On The 2005 Global-Average Radiative Forcing
Climate Science ^ | 3/5/07 | Roger Pielke Sr.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805106/posts
The 2007 IPCC Statement for Policymakers has a significant error that I have yet to see discussed...
“We observe a net loss of 3.2 (±1.1) × 10**22 J of heat from the upper ocean between 2003 and 2005. Using a broad array of in situ ocean measurements, we present annual estimates of global upper-ocean heat content anomaly from 1993 through 2005. Including the recent downturn, the average warming rate for the entire 13-year period is 0.33 ± 0.23 W/m2 (of the Earth’s total surface area)….”
This loss of heat from the upper oceans is also consistent with little if any heating in the troposphere over the last several years ... Even if the heat has been transported deeper into the ocean than the about 700m depth analyzed by Lyman et al, the radiative imbalance that is available to alter the global average surface temperature trend is much less than reported in the 2007 IPCC SPM, and, indeed, for at least the period from 2003 to 2005 is a negative value! Thus, the data indicate a very different picture than presented by the IPCC....
What these observations mean is that the statement in the IPCC SPM that there is a positive radiative forcing of 1.6 [0.6 to 2.4] Watts per meter squared in 2005 (when this was not true based on real data) is a particularly egregious error. Rather than relying solely on model based estimates to calculate a global radiative forcing, the authors of the IPCC Report should have also used real world data for the assessment of the net radiative imbalance...
(Excerpt) Read more at climatesci.colorado.edu ...