What Do The Climate Models Indicate?
Two of the nation’s most sophisticated climate models, running on some of the world’s most powerful computers, give similar results.
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Globally averaged temperature projections from two state-of-the-art climate models driven by the same scenario of the future CO2 concentrations give similar results.
(GDFL - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory model; NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Reserach model) |
• Both show that warming will increase in the next century as greenhouse gas levels rise.
• Both show that warming will be greatest in the northern regions close to the pole.
• Both show that warming will tend to be greater over land than over the ocean.
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