The Telegraph's Tom Chivers has joined the throng of journalists who have covered the low climate sensitivity story. His take, which is pretty level-headed, is here.
There are some gripes, however:
- the suggestion that Otto is a an outlier - a single paper - is demonstrably nonsense. There are now many papers showing climate sensitivity less than 2°C.
- the suggestion that the heat is all going into the oceans is at best only "possible". All the studies with low climate sensitivity take ocean heat uptake into account (or, in Forster and Gregory's case use a methodology that is unaffected by it). Trenberth's new suggestion that the heat is below 2 km depth in the deep ocean is at best speculative.
That said, it's not a bad piece at all and is well worth a look.
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