Global Warming Conference: A Warning on Warming Predictions

Nicolas Loris /

Dr. Roy Spencer, a meteorologist at the University of Alabama and someone who works frequently with NASA’s science team, is the keynote speaker at lunch. He blogs here and explains very well why the IPCC model predicts too much warming; in fact, his latest post “A Layman’s Explanation of Why Global Warming Predictions by Climate Models are Wrong” is worth taking a look.

His talk discusses why we cannot trust the IPCC climate models for global warming predictions. But he notes first that global warming skeptics have many different theories. Spencer gives his own account and he does acknowledge that carbon dioxide is a minor greenhouse gas and one that’s atmospheric concentration is increasing. Therefore, some warming should result, but the million dollar question is how much?

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