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Date: January 28th, 2008

Linear Thinking: Can we fit a line to figure out climate sensitivity?

28 January, 2008 (18:28) | global climate change

In some comment thread at Climate Audit, Willis Eschenbach estimated the sensitivity of Hansen’s GISS II model by fitting a straight line to the data. I commented, that, at least if the climate behaved like a simple lumped parameter “thing”, that fit would give misleading results for the sensitivity of Hansen’s GISS model. [...]