However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.
When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade.
Most climatologists agree that, at best, global warming is a theory about future climactic conditions and cannot be proven based upon the historic record.
I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
Global warming is actually a misnomer. It should be global extremes and global swings, because you add - as you add more energy into the atmosphere, it sloshes around. Energy doesn't simply uniformly warm up the planet. And that means droughts in one area, enormous snowstorms in another area, 100-year floods here, 100-year forest fires there.
I have been one of the guys who have been skeptical of global warming from the beginning. The jury is obviously still out on it. We see nothing but conflicting reports from across the globe. I'm not sure; I'm not a scientist.
Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.
Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.
The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.