Last I heard, the increased carbon dioxide was increasing temperature mainly in colder region, increasing crop yields, increasing rain, greening the planet, and had likely pushed back the end of the current inter glacial by tens of thousands of years. The estimated sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide has come down, and global temperatures have been essentially flat for a decade.
Last I heard, the increased carbon dioxide was increasing temperature mainly in colder region, increasing crop yields, increasing rain, greening the planet, and had likely pushed back the end of the current inter glacial by tens of thousands of years. The estimated sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide has come down, and global temperatures have been essentially flat for a decade.
Can you give a reference?
Climate sensitivity.
http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/21/future-global-warming-likely-less-second
http://reason.com/blog/2013/04/26/climate-sensitivity-trending-down-is-a-c
Flat for a decade
http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/
Desrtopa, at least, agrees with reglaciation being pushed back:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/hi1/potential_impacts_of_climate_change/918k
Couldn’t find the others. They were older articles I’d read.
s/Desrtopia/Desrtopa/
Oops. Thanks.