Climate models predicting greater warming appear more accurate – Scientists at Missoula climate workshop relate changes to forest users

Two Boulder scientists have published an analysis of leading climate models that indicates those predicting a greater rise in global temperatures are likely to be more accurate than those showing a lesser increase.

National Center for Atmospheric Research scientists John Fasullo and Kevin Trenberth analyzed the accuracy of sophisticated climate models to measure relative humidity in the tropics and subtropics. The study appears in this week’s issue of Science.

By Joe Rubino Camera Staff Writer

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Scientists at Missoula climate workshop relate changes to forest users

As a climate scientist, you can talk about seasonal change in precipitation.

Or you can say the Smokey Bear fire danger signs will read "high" to "extreme" 22 to 30 days a summer, instead of the current 15, by 2040.

Presenting the latest predictions for western Montana and Idaho because of hotter summers and rainier winters was one goal of Friday’s Northern Rockies Climate Change Workshop in Missoula.

By ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian

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