6 feet sounds reasonable to me.That's only 2 meters. "They failed" must be a topic at Watts, cuz somebody at Sou's named Phil says...
Off topic, the Watties are gloating over 'failed climate predictions' and are boldly asserting that NONE of the 'alarmist' predictions EVER came to pass. So I posted a list of 10...
10 Successful Climate Predictions...
- The radiative imbalance from increased GHGs would cause the planet to accrue heat and so warm. (As first predicted by Svante Arrhenius, 1896)
The First IPCC report in 1990 projected an increase between 0.1 and 0.2C / decade equivalent under Scenarios B & C (the ones closest to how forcings actually evolved). Actual increase:- 1.37C/decade.
The Third IPCC Report projected an increase of 0.35C between 1990 and 2010 (Scenario A2), or a linear trend of 0.175/decade. Actual trend 0.17C /decade (HADCRUT4)
- The oceans would gain heat
nodc.noaa.gov
- The Stratosphere would cool as the surface and lower atmosphere warms.
First formulated by Manabe and Wetherald in 1967, a key 'fingerprint' of greenhouse warming.
- The Tropopause would rise
- Warming will be higher at the poles.
Manabe and Wetherald again, 1975.
- Warming will be greater over land than sea.
- Nighttime temperatures would rise faster than daytime.
- The Pinatubo eruption would suppress temperatures by around 0.3C for around 2 years.
- The warmer atmosphere would hold more water vapour, amplifying the warming effect.
The existence of a strong and positive water-vapor feedback means that projected business-as-usual greenhouse-gas emissions over the next century are virtually guaranteed to produce warming of several degrees Celsius. The only way that will not happen is if a strong, negative, and currently unknown feedback is discovered somewhere in our climate system.
Dessler, Zhang and Yang (2008).
- Arctic sea ice extent would decline, most rapidly in late summer. nsidc.org
All my posts go into moderation and at the time of writing, it hasn't appeared yet (cross-posting here is useful insurance). While I'm waiting, doubtless they would be delighted to learn of any more successes, if you know of any .... ;-)
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