Talk:Climate sensitivity

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[edit] I reviewed the allegedly independent observational contraints on climate sensitivity

All citations, including (surprisingly) Shaviv are to some extent based on models, with Shaviv explicitly relying upon Gregory for part of his work. Gregory explicitly relied upon models for his estimate of heat flux into the ocean for the late 19th century, and based other assumptions on model insights and results. Annan relied upon models to analyze the maunder minimum, and also mistakenly assumed the maunder was long enough to achieve equilibrium, which is contradicted by climate commitment studies, which estimate closer to 1000 years.--Poodleboy 07:25, 10 June 2006 (UTC)