I thought I would start a new thread on a non controversial topic. Recent scientific studies have shown that it is not just the heat that is affecting climate change, it's also the humidity.
A new study of climate change software finds that those models which are most accurate in accounting for humidity also project higher temperature increases, up to above 7 degrees fahrenheit by the end of the 21st century.
The results of the study of 16 different leading climate models, published online Friday on the website of the journal Science, was performed by two scientists at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a collaborative, multi-institution climate research initiative that was launched out of the National Science Foundation 1960.
After examining the satellite data and comparing it to humidity represented in the models, the scientists discovered that those models that were most accurate also were those which predicted higher temperature increases over the course of the century. The temperature increases of all 16 models ranged anywhere from 3 degrees fahrenheit to 8 degrees fahrenheit, with the leading models prior to this study indicating an average global temperature rise of 5 degrees fahrenheit.
But now, according to Fasullo’s and Trenberth’s study, that should be revised up to over 7 degrees fahrenheit.
“Given how fundamental these processes are to clouds and the overall global climate, our findings indicate that warming is likely to be on the high side of current projections,” Fasullo said in a statement.
