Hi Doug

It's only a simple Excel spreadsheet.  The formula is T*(1-e^- ^λ ^t ) where T is the total temperature difference (here 10^o C); λis the inverse of the e-folding time (here 0.01); t is the number of years from the start.

Regards

Robert


On 27/02/2023 17:18, Douglas Grandt wrote:
Thanks, Robert!

Wouid you mind sharing the software and equation? It’s exactly as I envisioned.

T = fn (t) = t * (0.063e) * (e^^-(0.01t)) ???

where:

T is temperature °C increase over present
t  is number of years from present time

Is that close? My recollection of “ln” decay is a bit rusty.  This equation matches the endpoints at t = 0 and t = 100 years, and generally has the approximate shape, but I believe the is a more elegant and absolutely correct equation that this.

Plus, another factor may be required to accommodate the asymptotic approach to 10°C at the limit  t = ♾️

Doug


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On Feb 27, 2023, at 8:22 AM, Robert Chris <robertgch...@gmail.com> wrote:



Doug and Ron

Here's how I arrived at my conclusions.

From the extracts below, I conclude, given that by 2020 (or thereabouts) we had already doubled atmospheric GHGs from pre-industrial including non-CO_2 GHGs, that we will eventually warm the surface by 10^o C with a climate response e-folding time of ~100 years provided the offsetting cooling from anthropogenic aerosols continues to decline and is eventually largely eliminated.That means that by 2050 the warming would be ~2.4^o C less the residual aerosol cooling of, say 0.4^o C, giving their estimate of 2^o C.

    ·When all feedbacks, including ice sheets, are allowed to respond
    to the climate forcing, the equilibrium response is approximately
    doubled, i.e., ESS is ~ 10°C.

    ·Yet the time required for the [improved] model to achieve 63% of
    its equilibrium response remains about 100 years.(See Fig 4b –
    note log x-axis.)

    ·With all trace gases included, the increase of GHG effective
    forcing between 1750 and 2021 is 4.09W/m^2 , which is equivalent
    to increasing the 1750 CO_2 amount (278 ppm) to 561 ppm (formulae
    in Supporting Material). We have already reached the GHG climate
    forcing level of doubled CO_2 .[Note that they develop a scaling
    factor of 2.4^o C per W/m^2 which corresponds to 10^o C for the
    4W/m^2 of current GHG forcing.]

    ·Declining aerosol amount implies acceleration of global warming
    above the 1970-2010 rate.

    ·Global temperature responds reliably to climate forcing on
    decadal time scales, with about 50% of the response in the first
    decade, with about 15% more in the next 100 years

    ·we expect some [aerosol] reduction and a forcing increase of at
    least +0.1 W/m^2 per decade [between 2010 and 2050].

    ·we estimate that the global warming rate in 2010-2040 will be at
    least 50% greater than in 1970-2010, i.e., at least 0.27°C per
    decade.

    ·The poster child for warming in the pipeline is Fig. 7, showing
    that equilibrium warming for today’s GHG level, including slow
    feedbacks, is about 10°C. Today’s level of particulate air
    pollution reduces equilibrium warming to about 7°C.

    ·The 7-10°C global warming is the eventual response *if today’s
    level of GHGs is fixed and the aerosol amount is somewhere
    between its year 2000 amount and preindustrial amount*. (emphasis
    added) [Note that the assumptions here are that ‘today’s level of
    GHGs is fixed’, which I take to mean that future emissions are
    ignored, and aerosols are currently lower than they were in 2000.]

    Here's a simple graph showing the realisation of 10^o C of
    warming with an e-folding time of 100 years.Assume it starts in
    2020 or thereabouts (when atmospheric CO_2 e reached 556ppmv.).



        
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Regards

Robert


On 27/02/2023 03:50, Douglas Grandt wrote:
Ron and Robert,

Visually, the shape of the curve is something like this … more or less … as best I can fathom.

This is my interpretation of Hansen's assumptions and conclusions, but I very well could be wrong …

Perhaps somebody has chart generating software that would be more precise than my eyeball.

Doug



On Feb 26, 2023, at 8:58 PM, Ron Baiman <rpbai...@gmail.com> wrote:

*6.3 C (63% of 10) by 2020*

On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 7:56 PM Ron Baiman <rpbai...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Robert,

    Do you have a page number or an explanation of how you arrived
    at your figures? In the paper(https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04474)
    on p. 31 I'm finding: "The 7-10 C global warming is the
    eventual response if today's level of GHGs is fixed and the
    aerosol amount is somewhere between its year 2000 amount and
    preindustrial amount."  but the key temp Figure 7 on p. 18
    doesn't extend beyond 2025.  In the section on Climate response
    times (p. 32) the paper states that the in 2020 GISS GCM:
    "...the time required for the model to achieve 63% of its
    equilibrium response remains about 100 years" which would put
    the expected temp based on forcing estimated in the paper at
    6.3 C (63% or 10) by 2023. Is this where you're getting your
    6.3 C by 2120 from? Unfortunately, I have not had the time (and
    probably not the background) to go through the entire paper and
    understand it well!

    Best,
    Ron


    On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 7:09 PM Ron Baiman <rpbai...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

        Thanks for the correction Robert!

        Sent from my iPhone

        On Feb 26, 2023, at 6:41 PM, Robert Chris
        <robertgch...@gmail.com> wrote:

        

        Ron

        Hansen et al say that the 10degC is based on 'today's GHG
        level' and that it has an e-folding time of 100 years. 
        That implies 6.3degC by 2120 and a bit less by 2100.

        Regards

        Robert



        On 26/02/2023 23:43, Ron Baiman wrote:
        Jim Hansen et al (https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04474 )
        believe that existing legacy GHG's  have put us in "in
        the pipeline" for 10 degrees C warming by 2100!


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