Sentences with phrase «computer predictions of future»

As a result, their computer predictions of future climate trends show dramatic global warming roughly proportional to projected carbon dioxide concentrations in the future.

Not exact matches

Even now, the world's most powerful computers are pushed to their limits extracting predictions of future weather and climate from the equations he wrestled with using pencil and paper.

He begins by highlighting the evidence of North Carolina's salt marshes because they are a storyline from the past — a period that state lawmakers seem to be emphasizing over future predictions developed by computer models.

These initial calculations consumed several months of computer time, Chan said, but with some practical modifications, future predictions should take only a few hours.

The prediction of a future appearance is based on computer models of the cluster, which describe the various paths the divided light is taking through the maze of clumpy dark matter in the galactic grouping.

In addition, atmospheric scientist Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, a scientific pioneer in the development of numerical weather prediction and former director of research at The Netherlands» Royal National Meteorological Institute, recently compared scientists who promote computer models predicting future climate doom to unlicensed «software engineers.»

The results validated predictions of a computer code developed by PPPL physicist Elena Belova and marked good news for the future of fusion.

Recognizing that the possibility of a faulty prediction by the hitherto perfect Hal may bode ill for the computer's control of the ship and it's mission, Poole and Bowman decide that, if the unit does not fail as predicted, they will have to disconnect Hal to prevent future, more serious errors.

I realize that Schweiger means this in a specific sense, but more generally, with all computer modeling, prediction of the future involves extrapolation.

First, the computer climate models on which predictions of rapid warming from enhanced atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration are based «run hot,» simulating two to three times the warming actually observed over relevant periods — during which non-anthropogenic causes probably accounted for some and could have accounted for all the observed warming — and therefore provide no rational basis for predicting future GAT.

Even more frightening is that the group of scientists that can not even agree on what happened in the past believe they can tell us (with some degree of certainty) what will happen in the future based on the prediction of a non-linear chaotic computer model.

It's also a reminder of those predictions by NASA experts and computer models, as promulgated during 1988 congressional testimony, that accelerated global warming would significantly impact the U.S., with many «experts» then claiming our future was one of warmer winters and no snow.

Scientists reinforce distance with computer predictions set two generations in the future and endless talk of uncertainty.

Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly exaggerated computer predictions combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Computer models are the essential tool for prediction of future climate.

«Observational evidence does not support today's computer climate models, so there is little reason to trust model predictions of the future.»

In addition, atmospheric scientist Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, a scientific pioneer in the development of numerical weather prediction and former director of research at The Netherlands» Royal National Meteorological Institute, recently compared scientists who promote computer models predicting future climate doom to unlicensed «software engineers.»

The first is that the doomsday scenario for polar bears comes, not from real - world observation but from computer - modeled predictions of what might happen in the future if the ice caps melt, etc..

Using temperature readings from the past 100 years, 1,000 computer simulations and the evidence left in ancient tree rings, Duke University scientists announced yesterday that «the magnitude of future global warming will likely fall well short of current highest predictions.»

Much of this progress is due to advances in numerical weather prediction, that is, the use of computer models which approximate the fluid motions of the atmosphere to create forecasts of the weather at some time in the future.

Suzuki seems to be relying far too much on predictions made by global warming theorists who work with computer models of the future but use little actual data.