Lord Lawson thinktank's report ignores everything we know about climate science | Dana Nuccitelli

Global Warming Policy Foundation publishes report ignoring centuries of physics, drawing criticism and laughs from climate scientists

Climate models, and the predictions they make, are based on physics. We know how much more energy is trapped on Earth when we increase the greenhouse effect, and we have a good idea how much this trapped heat will warm the planet. We've understood these physical scientific concepts for over 150 years.

When climate contrarians make their own predictions, they tend to throw physics out the window. For example, as documented in my book and a paper I recently published with Rasmus Benestad and colleagues, contrarians have made climate predictions based on things like the orbital cycles of Jupiter and Saturn, ocean cycles and sunspots, and "natural fluctuations," but they often completely disregard the basic, long-understood physics of the increasing greenhouse effect.