2008-07 Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered

2008-07 American Physical Society Christopher Monckton \global warming/skepticism/arguments http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/monckton.cfm Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered &ldquo;The present analysis suggests that the failure of the IPCC's models to predict this and many other climatic phenomena arises from defects in its evaluation of the three factors whose product is climate sensitivity:...&rdquo;  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) concluded that anthropogenic CO2 emissions probably caused more than half of the "global warming" of the past 50 years and would cause further rapid warming. However, global mean surface temperature has not risen since 1998 and may have fallen since late 2001. The present analysis suggests that the failure of the IPCC's models to predict this and many other climatic phenomena arises from defects in its evaluation of the three factors whose product is climate sensitivity: Commentary: Creative Minority Report is shocked on Monckton's behalf by the APS's disclaimer that his paper was not peer-reviewed. Was it?   
 * 1) Radiative forcing &Delta;F;
 * 2) The no-feedbacks climate sensitivity parameter ?; and
 * 3) The feedback multiplier ƒ.