The Dessler Effect
Last summer, Dessler forecast permanentdroughtfor Texas.
The weather of the 21st century will be very much like the hot and dry weather of 2011.
Texas is vulnerable to warming climate – Houston Chronicle
Since he made that forecast, the drought has nearly disappeared, and parts of Texas now have surplus moisture.
Shortly after forecasting thepermanent drought, Dessler wrote the fastest peer-reviewed article in history which found the missing heat.
Andrew Dessler’s New Paper Debunks Both Roy Spencer And Richard Lindzen
Posted on 6 September 2011 by Rob Painting, dana1981
Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University, has released a scientific paper (Dessler 2011) that looks at the claims made by two of a small group of “skeptic” climate scientists who regular SkS readers will be familiar with: Roy Spencer and Richard Lindzen. Both were co-authors on peer-reviewed papers released this year (Spencer & Braswell [2011] & Lindzen & Choi [2011]) which, once again, sought to overturn the orthodox view of climate. Dessler (2011) finds that the conclusions of these two papers are unsupported by observational data.Dessler: Putting reality back on its feet
Putting aside the problems with their energybudget equation, Dessler looks at the values Spencer/Braswell and Lindzen/Choi use for their calculations. Rather than examine the data for two of the terms in their equation (heating of the climate by the ocean & change in cloud cover allowing heat to escape to space), Lindzen and Spencer approximate them from other observations, and their results rely heavily on assumptions about the size of these values.
Andrew Dessler’s New Paper Debunks Both Roy Spencer And Richard Lindzen
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