Climate models rely very heavily on moist adiabatic assumptions, which contributes to the persistent model-observation mismatch in the tropics, why?

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Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here.) Well, I had some further insights and questions about the issue of sunshine hours that I discussed…

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There was a recent weeks-long exchange of emails between many climate people — professional and amateur — regarding the idea that air pressure (in combination with absorbed solar energy) is what causes temperature.

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Researchers have supposedly solved a long-standing atmospheric puzzle: How rising carbon dioxide cools the stratosphere even as it warms Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere.

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Natural atmospheric circulation patterns (like the Western Tibetan Vortex, or WTV) drive total cloud cover (TCC) change, which, in turn modulate the the amount of downward solar radiation reaching the surface.

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...changes in solar intensity across latitudes and seasons are argued here to be a primary driver of the observed patterns and a useful guide for anticipating future regional trends. Broadly, the NH has strong upward temperature trends while the SH is cooling in the high latitudes that will eventually progress to the mid-latitudes as both maximum daily insolation and poleward advection…

With regard to EEI, the answer to the question “What Is The Proof?” is that there is no proof.

This expansion of the CRGW theory is intended to be a possible tool in the investigation of historical climate change to explore what did cloud fraction do as the earth changed over time and what future changes in the earth’s land mass might do to cloud fraction.

A 4 W/m² per decade increase in SSR easily explains recent warming. It especially explains warming far better than the alleged 20-times smaller clear-sky-only CO2 impact (0.2 W/m² per decade) over this span.