Sentences with phrase «criticisms about climate models»

Not exact matches

It's useful to think of this as an example of Bayesian priors in action — given that 99 % of the criticisms we hear about climate science are bogus or based on deep confusions about what modeling is for, scepticism is an appropriate first response, but because we are actually scientists, not shills, we are happy to correct real errors — sometimes they will matter, and sometimes they won't.

given that 99 % of the criticisms we hear about climate science are bogus or based on deep confusions about what modeling is for

My criticism of IAMs [Integrated Assessment Models] should not be taken to imply that, because we know so little, nothing should be done about climate change right now, and instead we should wait until we learn more.

You also ignored the multiple errors you made in claiming that certain effects were not included in climate models, including one that I referred you to peer - reviewed literature for proof, If I was one of your design reviewers and you'd completely ignored multiple specific and documented criticisms about your design, I'd go out of my way to make sure that your annual performance review indicated that you were not meeting my expectations for an engineering intern, never mind an engineer with 46 years of experience.

The questioner, the physicist about whom I'm writing today — let's call him Denier 3 — raised his hand at the end and asked if the speaker had considered the criticisms of climate models made by a scientist not present at this conference, a climate scientist famous for his denialist position (let's call him «Famous Denier»).

In this post I write about the criticism, also expressed to me in comments after my New York Times op - ed, that climate models (or the tools and methods of climate science more broadly) have been disproved by observations, so we should ignore them.