Magic Climate Balance

I mentioned before that Gavin Schmidt released a paper claiming that emissions from fossil fuels have led to global cooling. He thinks this has offset, or masked, the devastating impact of CO2. I thought that sounded like magical thinking, and a piece in Watts Up With That reached the same conclusion.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/21/gavin-schmidts-magic-climate-balance/

I agree with the author's conclusion:

A much simpler theory as to why our climate is so balanced, despite the release of allegedly dangerous amounts of anthropogenic CO2, is that either the various forcings are actually quite small, in which case any imbalances will be barely noticeable, or that an as yet unacknowledged dynamic mechanism, such as Willis’ emergent tropical heat pump, is compensating for any imbalance we are causing, and keeping the climate stable.

The choice then is either to believe that our current climate stability is an improbable streak of good luck, or to search for evidence of an emergent dynamic mechanism which is suppressing radical change. NASA seems to want us to blindly embrace the theory that we’ve simply been very lucky, which is a shame, because there is a lot of evidence that the Earth’s climate contains powerful dynamic compensation mechanisms, which can easily adjust to counter any imbalance we are likely to cause.