Take a look at Spencer's graphic. Look where he starts the model runs. BEFORE 1975. After over 37 years he gets a fraction of a degree error.
Wow...
How do the models compare to reality?
Orders of magnitude better than ANY model that doesn't assume AGW.
Do you
really not see my point? I just posted a note that contended you DO understand what all this means. Are you going to prove me wrong that quickly?
It`s easy to prove you wrong, the problem is that people like you are unable to accept scientific proof which is based on actual & measured data and yields real correlations. Your lot is hell bent to average everything that is not ppm CO2 & temperature to death, till it`s a constant "average" value, which is then plugged into these garbage in/garbage out computer models.
Thus you keep insisting it`s CO2 that drives temperature first and foremost.
You got your heads buried far too deep in your own bullshit while "climate science estimates" have been "updated".
Here is what the IPCC stated in the AR4:
1.4.3 Solar Variability and the Total Solar Irradiance - AR4 WGI Chapter 1: Historical Overview of Climate Change Science
Between 1902 and 1957, Charles Abbot and a number of other scientists around the globe made thousands of measurements of TSI from mountain sites. Values ranged from 1,322 to 1,465 W m–2, which encompasses the current estimate of 1,365 W m–2
Tett et al., 1999; Cubasch and Voss, 2000) suggest that the changes in solar radiation could cause surface temperature changes of the order of a few tenths of a degree celsius.
There are tons of data, but none of that will ever appear on one of these dumb blogs you keep quoting:
Take another look at solar irradiance & temperature @ 1940...you know the data point you tried to use in order to "prove" that CO2 leads temperature !
If you only trust reconstructions that re-inforce your CO2 psychosis and have an issue with solar irradiance reconstructions there is much more recent data that show the same nearly perfect correlation...
Column1 = the date and #5 = TSI [watts/m^2]
http://lasp.colorado.edu/data/sorce/tsi_data/daily/sorce_tsi_L3_c24h_latest.txt
Scroll down column 5 and keep track how far off the "current estimate" is, which these milkmaid math computers models have been plugging in.
I can`t find even a single occurance of 1365 [watts/m^2] most are at ~ 1360 to 1361.5 which is the highest one listed.
It takes a real idiot to try find the 1.6 watts/m^2 "missing heat" in the ocean`s depth while the IPCC`s "estimate" has been
5 watts/m^2 too high for the entire time period and data set since it has been logged with ERBS, ACRIM-III, VIRGO, ACRIM-I and ACRIM-II.