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To: 3_if_by_Treason

Climate is so complex that we don’t accurately know the exact variables and what the changes cause through iteration after iteration.

Models are GIGO.


30 posted on 08/24/2021 12:36:49 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Yes meteorology is thought to be perhaps the most difficult of the physical earth sciences.

One theory to research is the “Butterfly Effect”.

From Wikipedia: “In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.

The term is closely associated with the work of mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz. He noted that butterfly effect is derived from the metaphorical example of the details of a tornado (the exact time of formation, the exact path taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as a distant butterfly flapping its wings several weeks earlier.[citation needed] Lorenz discovered the effect when he observed runs of his weather model with initial condition data that were rounded in a seemingly inconsequential manner. He noted that the weather model would fail to reproduce the results of runs with the unrounded initial condition data. A very small change in initial conditions had created a significantly different outcome.

The idea that small causes may have large effects in weather was earlier recognized by French mathematician and engineer Henri PoincarĂ©. American mathematician and philosopher Norbert Wiener also contributed to this theory. Edward Lorenz’s work placed the concept of instability of the Earth’s atmosphere onto a quantitative base and linked the concept of instability to the properties of large classes of dynamic systems which are undergoing nonlinear dynamics and deterministic chaos.

The butterfly effect concept has since been used outside the context of weather science as a broad term for any situation where a small change is supposed to be the cause of larger consequences.”


53 posted on 08/24/2021 12:57:26 PM PDT by 3_if_by_Treason (The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.)
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