It is understood without any possibility of doubt that
climate model solutions diverge exponentially within the limits of data resolution.
Not exact matches
True believers in the dominant
model tell us that the
solution of our problems is to reduce taxes on corporations and the rich, reduce government services to the poor and middle class, improve the
climate for business by reducing work place and environmental protections and minimum wage requirements, privatizing public services, and facilitating the investment of capital overseas.
It's going to be one of the major topics at a regional
Climate Solutions Summit in Syracuse this weekend, as the city hopes to take the lead on an energy supply
model that uses renewable energy.
«By enabling entrepreneurs and green innovators to test and scale their business
models, homegrown clean technology
solutions can help the country build
climate resilience, while also creating jobs and fostering economic growth.»
«Computer
models find ancient
solutions to modern
climate problems.»
This technique may be a
model for other power plants and factories to control their emissions, creating a
climate change
solution literally set in stone.
They were Jorge Sarmiento, an oceanographer at Princeton University who constructs ocean - circulation
models that calculate how much atmospheric carbon dioxide eventually goes into the world's oceans; Eileen Claussen, executive director of the Pew Center for Global
Climate Change in Washington, D.C.; and David Keith, a physicist with the University of Calgary in Alberta who designs technological
solutions to the global warming problem.
In a recently published interview, Paul Hawken, an environmentalist, and Executive Director of Project Drawdown, a global coalition of researchers, scientists, and economists that
models the impacts of global warming, made a spot - on observation about the pitfalls of seeking a simple, single
solution to
climate change.
Over 3,000 events showcased the big and small ideas across the country: Manchester United held a staff bike ride, the Arcola Theatre in Hackney taught children how to make hydrogen powered cars, and stars such as Lily Cole and Gemma Arterton showed how fashion can be part of the
solution to
climate change by modelling a low carbon designer Climate Week T -
climate change by
modelling a low carbon designer
Climate Week T -
Climate Week T - shirt.
It can also be used to gain a CREST award Students initially look at some of the problems caused by
climate change then design and make a
model of their
solution to a problem faced by farmers in Bangladesh... how to grow food even when the land floods.
Quality, taste, and relationships drive farm - to - table trends, and have become an example of how food culture is a successful
model for
climate change
solutions on a city - wide scale.
If the mathematics of simple
climate models fail to provide us with robust
solutions and if the arithmatic of complex
climate models produce similar outcomes (roughly the same results but still non-robust), why not solve the
climate issue with philosophy.
Typically, the modeler poses a problem (an inadequately
modeled climate process) and a
solution (a change to the
model) and then proceeds to test the
solution.
One of the focal points and foundations of any set of
solutions intended to address the
climate - population - water - growing - income - disparity - media - war - violence - too - thin -
models problem (whew, I'm sure I missed something!)
Finally I attempt a suggestion that perhaps one
solution to the problem that the solar impact on
climate is underestimated by
models might be because EBM and GCM, like GISS, do not contain CO2 and CH4 cycle mechanisms that might be partially effected by the Sun, and other mechanisms are missing or uncertain (water vapor, cloud cover, vegetation, bacteria respiration, UV radiation, cosmic ray effects etc.).
As
climate models had now proven the existence of
climate change, the organization's next focus will be on a different vantage point: «What do we do about it [and] how can we find
solutions for the
climate we will be living with?»
The Figure fully demonstrates that
climate models are incapable of producing a unique
solution to any
climate energy - state.
«Analytical
Solution to a Simple
Climate Model with Diffusive Heat Transport.»
Both procedures have UNKNOWN impact on topology of
solutions of the original Navier - Stokes problem, especially on long term evolution (which is precisely the entire goal of
climate modeling), on development of «coherent structures» and their interaction and formation of seemingly stable large - scale atmospheric circulation.
A visceral distrust of government
solutions screams louder to most Republicans than does the descriptive analysis and predictive
modeling from
climate scientists.
In response to shareholder questions, Tillerson reiterated his views that
climate change represents another risk among many that the company manages; that the ramifications of global warming are unclear because «the [scientific]
models simply are not that good»; and that technology advances will provide «engineered
solutions» to address whatever problems emerge.
Project Drawdown brought together a qualified and diverse group of researchers to identify, research and
model the most substantive, existing
solutions to address
climate change and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
To provide a detailed and accurate description of the earth atmosphere in diverse
climate regimes to resolve the uncertainties in
climate and earth system
models toward the development of sustainable
solutions for the Nation's energy and environmental challenges.
A new study by meteorologists at the University of Utah shows that current
climate models are quite accurate and can be valuable tools for those seeking
solutions on reversing global warming trends.
The paper from Julia Slingo — head of the British Met Office — and Tim Palmer — head of the European Centre for Mid-Range Weather Forecast — suggests that
climate models using a range of feasible initial and boundary conditions may be used to generate a range of
solutions with associated with probabilities.
Solution: Until
climate models are verified as being capable of somewhat accurate forecasts (predictions, scenarios, etc.), policymakers and taxpayers should completely ignore any
climate simulation output that is a result of today's computer
models.
And different
models may project different outcomes even under the same assumptions, due to the variety of «equally plausible numerical representations,
solutions and approximations for
modelling the
climate system, given the limitations in computing and observations» [AR5, FAQ 12.1, p. 1036].
Any change in a
model can produce divergent
solutions that are not predictable beforehand — it is the nature of the nonlinear Navier - Stokes equations — this extends to the range of uncertainty in
climate data and to the number and breadth of couplings.
With the help of a little funding, he and a team of several dozen research fellows set out to «map, measure, and
model» the 100 most substantive
solutions to
climate change, using only peer - reviewed research.
The convergence that I observe in
climate science is far more on what statist
solutions must be imposed via bigger government, and less personal liberty rather than on an accurate
model of the
climate system.
I have just begun thinking about a partial
solution to many of the IPCC problems: The U.S. should, as quickly as possible, release an RFP for private contractors to analyze the CMIP6 process in full and scrutinize selected
climate models, possibly ones produced by U.S. agencies.
The fact that all the
models generally come up with similar
solutions is a function of the initial assumptions and arbitrary «governors» on their equations to prevent run - away
solutions, not a testament to their ability to accurately
model real
climate.
Including 55
models at last count that are each chaotic but with one of many divergent
solutions that is represented as the best realization of the
climate trajectory.
Models give us no clue at all — there are literally thousands of plausible
solutions to any
model and tuning gives no reassurance that the complex physics of
climate are captured.
As soon as a global
climate model readjusts a vertical column to unphysically alter the large scale
solution in order to maintain hydrostatic balance (overturning due to unrealistic heating parameterizations necessitate this adjustment), there is no mathematical theory that can justify the nature of the ensuing numerical
solution.
The ensemble of 55
model solutions each purporting to be a unique realization of a
climate future — chosen from many feasible
solutions — is closer to deliberate scientific fraud than not.
A 2007 analysis by Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy
Solutions (based on a U.S. Energy Information Administration
model) found that the Lieberman - Warner
Climate Security Act (S. 3036) would reduce U.S. GDP growth by less than 0.45 percent by 2015 and only 1.5 percent by 2050.
The Montreal Protocol has a lot more to offer than a
model for addressing global warming emissions, it is itself an important tool that urgently needs to be strengthened to harvest the «low hanging fruit» of phasing out hydrofluorocarbons (and HCFCs), the high global warming potential ODS alternatives with genuinely
climate friendly natural refrigerant
solutions.
A third breakthrough was
solution adaptive methods even though how applicable to
climate models they are I'm not sure of.
For the atmospheric equations of motion that system is not the hydrostatic equations of motion that all
climate models are based on, e.g., vertical columnar heating does not lead to a
solution that is smooth (large scale) in space.
Put this all together, and you find that while individual
solutions of the
climate equations may have predicted the slowed warming of the last few years, that single
solution wasn't statistically valid as a projection and so was given only a small weight in the overall
model or multi-
model means.
«Greenland Ice Sheet Captures Beryllium 10 Isotopes: Evidence of Large
Climate Change - It's The Sun, Stupid Main A Climategate
Solution: Open & Transparent Peer - Reveiw of
Climate Model Software, ASAP»
Despite the large role that many
climate models suggest carbon removal
solutions can play in meeting
climate goals, it remains very difficult to identify what research the US Government is pursuing today in relation to carbon removal.
Picketts, I.M, T.Q. Murdock, 2012: Using
climate models to inform community adaptation in BC, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions Briefing Note 201
climate models to inform community adaptation in BC, Pacific Institute for
Climate Solutions Briefing Note 201
Climate Solutions Briefing Note 2012 - 39.
In our opinion, it is less important how RWE proceeds with the generation business since this business
model is focused on conventional generation which does not offer any
solutions for the overall challenges from
climate change.
An even broader distribution function for the increase in mean surface air temperature is the
solution ensemble for a standard atmospheric
climate model produced by Internet - shared computations (23), but there is a question about how carefully the former ensemble members were selected for their plausibility.
Transition Lab was selected as both the judges and popular choice winner for «Best Local
Solution» for addressing
climate change in the 2013 MIT Climate CoLab competition, as a «replicable grassroots education teaching the skills and mindset for local resilience, powered by new and viable economic models.
climate change in the 2013 MIT
Climate CoLab competition, as a «replicable grassroots education teaching the skills and mindset for local resilience, powered by new and viable economic models.
Climate CoLab competition, as a «replicable grassroots education teaching the skills and mindset for local resilience, powered by new and viable economic
models.»
As more anthropological data is brought into these
models, more clues and
solutions can be found to help humans cope with the challenges of
climate change.
Through ALEC, Duke works with state legislators to distribute anti-environmental
model bills across the country that delay policy
solutions to
climate change, block clean energy, prevent EPA from regulating coal pollution, fasttrack coal mining projects and other dirty energy initiatives.
The issue of «what to do» about AGW is related to
climate modeling (as you have to use
models to predict what a certain change would do), but really, most of the proposed
solutions to global warming are just terrible, inefficient, or contradictory.