tell
your climate model friends that they should dramatically increase performance and the model should reflect that since 16 years the global temperatures don't rise.
Not exact matches
He dug into the numbers, consulting with a
friend from NASA, and concluded that some of Al Gore's
models were too conservative about the rate and impact of
climate change.
I would agree that unforeseen changes in ocean circulation could throw off
model predictions, there are surely other wildcards too, but uncertainty like that is not your
friend if you want to argue against avoiding
climate change.
I would agree that unforeseen changes in ocean circulation could throw off
model predictions, there are surely other wildcards too, but uncertainty like that is not your
friend if you want to argue against avoiding
climate change.
A good
friend of mine (who's a scientist in an area far removed from
climate) was arguing some time ago that the
climate models are useless because they don't include clouds at all or in such a crude way that their effect is totally meaningless.
This week,
Friends of the Earth Netherlands / Milieudefensie demanded that Shell align its business
model with the Paris
Climate Agreement or face legal consequences.
Or as a good
friend of mine says, whom I shall not name here, but who is preeminent in the field of dynamical systems and was a solid contributor to the practice of
modelling climate on computers, «the trouble with the IPCC
models is that they treat the
climate system as if it were a brick.»
Alas my American
friends, what you mistake for a poor quality
climate model is simply our optimism on display.
Have
climate models, which are claimed by our
friends like Ben Santer, to accurately represent the
climate of the 20th century gotten things right for the wrong reasons?
You can read more in (Mis) understanding
Climate Policy: The role of economic
modelling, a Synapse report prepared on behalf of WWF - UK and
Friends of the Earth.
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