An oversimplified picture of the climate behavior based on a single process can lead to distorted conclusions
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Lindzen, Richard S
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June 3, 2020
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The European Physical Journal Plus. 2020 Jun 03;135(6):462
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Abstract
The nature of the climate system is reviewed. We then review the history of scientific approaches to major problems in climate, noting that the centrality of the contribution of carbon dioxide is relatively recent, and probably inappropriate to much of the Earth’s climate history. The weakness of characterizing the overall climate behavior using only one physical process, globally averaged radiative forcing, is illustrated by considering the role of an equally well-known process, meridional heat transport by hydrodynamic processes which, by changing the equator-to-pole temperature difference, also impact global mean temperature.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00471-z
