The Value Of Paleoclimate Records In Assessing Vulnerability to Drought

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » The Value Of Paleoclimate Records In Assessing Vulnerability to Drought: A New Paper Meko et al 2008

The significance of these observational findings is that the regional multi-decadal predictions based on the current generation of IPCC models should not be used by the impacts and policy making communities. The IPCC models fail to skillfully predict climate features such as drought, as exemplified in the figure from the Meko et al paper.