The most accurate climate change models predict the most alarming consequences, study finds

The following article by Chris Mooney was posed on the Washington Post website December 6, 2017:

The government’s National Climate Assessment cited human influence as the “dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.” (Patrick Martin/The Washington Post)

The climate change simulations that best capture current planetary conditions are also the ones that predict the most dire levels of human-driven warming, according to a statistical study released in the journal Nature Wednesday.

The study, by Patrick Brown and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, Calif., examined the high-powered climate change simulations, or “models,” that researchers use to project the future of the planet based on the physical equations that govern the behavior of the atmosphere and oceans. Continue reading “The most accurate climate change models predict the most alarming consequences, study finds”