Douglass & Knox 2012 pre-bunked Posted on 26 February 2012 by
Rob Painting The global energy imbalance, the difference between
energy entering and leaving Earth's atmosphere, is one of the
most important metrics of global warming in that it indicates
how much warming is 'in the pipeline'. Given its importance, it
is a topic we have frequently blogged about in one form or
another, most recently in SkS posts: Breaking News…The Earth Is
Warming…Still, and Search For 'Missing Heat' Confirms More
Global Warming 'In The Pipeline'. A yet-to-be-published paper,
Douglass & Knox (2012) takes a cherry-picking approach to the
Earth energy imbalance, and contradicts just about every single
paper which has examined this subject in the last few years.
Unlike Loeb (2012), however, these authors do not attempt to
reconcile their calculations with the top-of-the-atmosphere flux
observed by satellites. Douglass & Knox (2012) ascribes warming
to mysterious step-changes. But, quite conveniently, it has
already been pre-bunked by