Models? As in many models? Has any model predicted the climate accurately?
Physicist Howard Hayden's one-letter disproof of global warming claims [pre-Climategate]Dear Administrator Jackson:
I write in regard to the Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act, Proposed Rule, 74 Fed. Reg. 18,886 (Apr. 24, 2009), the so-called "Endangerment Finding."
It has been often said that the "science is settled" on the issue of CO2 and climate. Let me put this claim to rest with a simple one-letter proof that it is false.
The letter is s, the one that changes model into models. If the science were settled, there would be precisely one model, and it would be in agreement with measurements.
Alternatively, one may ask which one of the twenty-some models settled the science so that all the rest could be discarded along with the research funds that have kept those models alive.
We can take this further. Not a single climate model predicted the current cooling phase. If the science were settled, the model (singular) would have predicted it.
(excerpted from Professor Hayden's letter to Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator Environmental Protection Agency. More at link.)
>>The letter is s, the one that changes model into models. If the science were settled, there would be precisely one model, and it would be in agreement with measurements.<<
That is the most succinct disposition of the AGW nazis I have ever read.
Short, sweet, accurate and to the point. And my new tagline.
Keep that in mind, all...
Good point by Professor Hayden. We don’t speak of Keplerian Model, Newtonian Models, Maxwellian Models, Bohr Models, Rutherford Models, or Einstinian Models, do we? Nope, after enough hypotheses are proposed and tested, the world’s scientists, physicists, and engineers finally agree on one model that can generate reproducible results via experimentation.