New Study, Same Result - Greenhouse Gases Dominate Global Warming
Posted on 18 March 2013 by dana1981
A new study by Jones, Stott, and Christidis of the UK Met Office (Jones et al. 2013) examines the causes of global warming by using global climate model simulations from the World Climate Research Programme’s Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) and comparing those model results to observed global surface temperatures. CMIP5 is one of the largest collaborative efforts for bringing together climate model data for access by climate scientists across the world. The prior phase, CMIP3 was used heavily in studies included in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, while CMIP5 is used in many studies evaluated in the upcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment report, due out in 2013.
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The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and Future Earth are initiatives that are driven by visions of creating a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient world. WCRP coordinates international climate science to address key research areas that are either too large or too complex to be tackled by a single nation, agency, or scientific discipline. Future Earth develops the knowledge and tools that government, communities, and companies need to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. There have long been areas of synergy between the two initiatives on many levels, but this has largely taken place organically and on an ad hoc basis.
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