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To: thackney

“...the continued failure of the climate system
to conform to model predictions ...”
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One would think this would be better worded as:
...the continued failure of the modeling software to predict the climate...

Instead of saying,
“Why doesn’t the climate perform the way my climate modeling software says it should?”

They should say,
“Why doesn’t my climate modeling software accurately predict the climate?”

A subtle, but I think, important difference.

Should ask: “What’s wrong with the model?”
Not: “What’s wrong with the climate (and how can we ‘fix’ the broken climate)?”

When talking about weather, and not climate, and the forecast for tomorrow is not accurate,
we don’t wonder what is wrong with the weather, we wonder what is wrong with the forecast.


12 posted on 02/24/2014 5:32:16 AM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Can’t help it. We’re talking about people with an obsessive compulsion to control everything and have their imagination as supreme truth, reality be...


15 posted on 02/24/2014 5:55:00 AM PST by Moose Burger
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To: Repeal The 17th

I think that both the climate fails to be predicted by the climate models (95% are too warm) and the weather is also contrary to the climate models. For example the polar jet is supposed to get less wavy, with fewer cold outbreaks, etc in the long term climate models. The few contrarian scientists who say otherwise are given way more press than they deserve and Obama’s “science” advisor has been snowed by them as well.


25 posted on 02/24/2014 7:53:01 AM PST by palmer (There's someone in my lead but it's not me)
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