A review of some of the evidence for the IPCC's conclusion that doubling CO2 levels will warm Earth significantly, in contrast to the claims of a recent article1. Simply looking at raw temperature and CO2 data over the past 150 years gives a transient response of roughly 2 K per doubling, in good agreement with IPCC conclusions based on far more extensive analysis. The 0.58 K of Ref. 1 is very unlikely.
@article{arxiv.0811.4600,
title = {Climate Sensitivity and the Response of Temperature to CO$_2$},
author = {Arthur P. Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.4600},
year = {2008}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure: response to Physics and Society, July 2008 issue