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Climate change
A 2005 study by Douglass and fellow University of Rochester physicist Robert S. Knox argued that
global climate models underestimated the climate response to the
1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. The study also contended that global temperature returned to normal much faster after the eruption than the models had predicted.[1][2]
A 2007 paper by Douglass and coworkers questioned the reliability of 22 of the most commonly used global climate models analyzed by
Benjamin D. Santer and used by the
IPCC to predict accelerated warming in the
troposphere.[3][4] The study had originally been submitted to Geophysical Research Letters the previous year, but was rejected in September 2006 on Santer's recommendation.[5] Santer and 17 co-authors later rebutted Douglass' paper.[6][7]