Climate change computer model vindicated 30 years later by what has actually happened
Sceptics have long sneered at climate models but one made in the late 1980s has proved remarkably prophetic
Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change, Dr Ronald Stouffer, head of the climate and ecosystem group at Princeton University, and Dr Syukuro Manabe, a senior meteorologist at the same US college, said they had not expected the model to be so accurate.
“It is quite surprising that the observed and projected pattern of surface temperature change are very similar to each other,” they wrote.
“It … suggests that the model likely contains the key physical processes that control the geographical pattern of global warming at the earth surface.”
