UH OH, CLIMATE MODELS MAYBE NEED ADJUSTMENT


The accuracy of climate models is being questioned:

Frank Wentz and colleagues at Remote Sensing Systems in California, US, looked at satellite records from between 1986 and 2005 to see if the climate models' predictions of a correlation between increased temperatures and reduced rainfall bore out in reality.

"The satellite data for the last 20 years shows an increase in rainfall that is three times what the models predicted," says Wentz. "This represents one of the first tests of the models used for the predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The results show a significant discrepancy between model and observations."

These finding are, of course, hotly disputed.