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To: Clive
Kyoto Paradox I:
Climate is an extremely complex, chaotic, coupled, non-linear, time-dependent system
with massive, external, naturally-occuring inputs and wide variability in measurables.
Therefore,
To say we can control it by tweaking a small set of factors is ridiculous on its face.

Kyoto Paradox II:
Climate is an extremely complex, chaotic, coupled, non-linear, time-dependent system
with massive, external, naturally-occuring inputs and wide variability in measurables.
Therefore,
You can no more successfully predict the outcome of doing something than you can of
not doing something. In other words, the impact of trying to "fix" a climate problem
is as unpredictable as the impact of ignoring it.
6 posted on 05/23/2002 12:25:10 PM PDT by My Identity
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To: My Identity
Agreed.

We simply do not have enough data on the whole worldwide ecosystem for any computer simulation, no matter how sophisticated, to work.

"Garbage in - Garbage out"

Missing data = invalid results.

7 posted on 05/23/2002 12:31:26 PM PDT by Clive
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