The data don't lie, and a new research result published in PNAS Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences shows that observations have contradicted climate models again. Climate models fail to simulate what happens with water vapor. This is a devastating finding, as water vapor is allegedly significant in greenhouse theory because of its claimed “feedback” capacity, accelerating warming well beyond what CO2 is said to be capable of alone. New Study: Climate Models Get Water Vapor Wildly Wrong – A ‘Major Gap In Our Understanding’ By Kenneth Richard on 19. February 2024 “Here, we have demonstrated a major discrepancy between observation-based and climate model-based historical trends in near-surface atmospheric water vapor in arid and semi-ari regions.” – Simpson et al., 2024 A new study published in PNAS has demonstrated, once again, that climate models fail to simulate what happens in the real world with regard to fundamental climate change variables like water vapor. This is a devastating finding, as water vapor is the most significant greenhouse gas due to its alleged “feedback” capacity, accelerating warming well beyond what CO2 is said to be capable of alone. The authors do not understate the significance of this climate modeling failure. “This represents a major gap in our understanding and in climate model fidelity that must be understood and fixed as soon as possible in order to provide reliable hydroclimate projections for arid/semi-arid regions in the coming decades.” Per state-of-the-art climate models, specific humidity (SH) should increase as a consequence of CO2-induced global warming. But 40 years of observations (1980-) show no increasing SH trend over arid/semi-arid regions. Per state-of-the-art climate models, relative humidity (RH) should decline slightly as a consequence of CO2-induced global warming. But 40 years of observations (1980-) show not a slight declining trend, but a declining trend that is “about an order of magnitude more than the models on average.” In other words, the climate models are wrong by a factor of 10. Image Source: Simpson et al., 2024
One wonders how this study made it into the light of day given the vast mechanisms for suppression and censorship of studies that contradict the catechism... But as so many of us for so long have noted, it would be political suicide for the warmists to attack water as something that they would take away from the masses....
