Not exact matches
Particularly
as an
ensemble, they reflect
reality quite well: «On the whole, the simulated trends agree with the observations,» says Jochem Marotzke.
Slipping between several planes of
reality with the nimbleness of a jazz
ensemble, Michael Almereyda «s Experimenter, starring Peter Sarsgaard
as late social psychologist Stanley Milgram, is more of a delectable treat than the dark subject matter might lead you to believe.
Initiated in the 1990s and spanning four continents,
Reality Hacking consists of over 300 interventions to date, including such varied works
as RH No. 320 (Snow Monsters)(2015), a constellation of twelve marble snowmen in various stages of melting that occupied the plaza outside of the Flatiron Building in New York City; RH No. 202 (2002 — 2003), a composition performed by the
Ensemble for New Music Zurich based on a recording the artist made of a glass shelf filled with crystal objects crashing down a flight of stairs; RH No. 200 (2002), an artificial doughnut - shaped island built at the delta of a river in Switzerland using rocks and earth from the construction of a nearby tunnel; and RH No. 244 (2007), a snowman installed at the southernmost point of the African continent.
«The Science», or better stated
as the «current understanding of the science» brings one back to «
Reality is only one realization of an
ensemble»
The argument at its simplest is that since there are individual model runs in the CCSM4
ensemble that are just about
as bad
as our current
reality, we can't rule out the chance that
reality will return to the CCSM4
ensemble line — i.e. the decline will slow, and the Arctic will be summer ice - free in «only» 2040 - 2050 or so.
It's not useful
as an upper bound — which it's been used
as — and it radically distorts the «CI's» of the model
ensemble, so that
reality barely falls into the CI.
Conversely, where an
ensemble is not reliable in this sense (and especially when it is strongly biased such that
reality lies outside its range), it must raise some doubts
as to how credible it is (at least in raw form)
as a representation of these uncertainties.