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Why are climate-change models so flawed? Because climate science is so incomplete
Boston Globe ^ | 14nMar, 2017 | Jeff Jacoby

Posted on 03/15/2017 7:37:49 PM PDT by MtnClimber

‘DO YOU believe,” CNBC’s Joe Kernen asked Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency’s new director, in an interview last Thursday, “that it’s been proven that CO2 is the primary control knob for climate?”

Replied Pruitt: “No. I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. So no — I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see. But we don’t know that yet. We need to continue the debate and continue the review and the analysis.”

It was an accurate and judicious answer, so naturally it sent climate alarmists into paroxysms of condemnation. The Washington Post slammed Pruitt as a “denier” driven by “unreason.” Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii called Pruitt’s views “extreme” and “irresponsible” — proof of his unfitness to head the EPA. Gina McCarthy, who ran the agency under President Obama, bewailed the danger global warming poses “to all of us who call Earth home,” and said she couldn’t “imagine what additional information [Pruitt] might want from scientists” in order to understand that.

Yet for all the hyperventilating, Pruitt’s answer to the question he was asked — whether carbon dioxide is the climate’s “primary control knob” — was entirely sound. “We don’t know that yet,” he said. We don’t. CO2 is certainly a heat-trapping greenhouse gas, but hardly the primary one: Water vapor accounts for about 95 percent of greenhouse gases. By contrast, carbon dioxide is only a trace component in the atmosphere: about 400 ppm (parts per million), or 0.04 percent. Moreover, its warming impact decreases sharply after the first 20 or 30 ppm.

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TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: bostonglobe; fakenews; fakescience; hoax; warmong
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1 posted on 03/15/2017 7:37:49 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

the UN ippc chair stated that global warming was their weapon to destroy Capitalism.


2 posted on 03/15/2017 7:39:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Because climate change doesnt exist?


3 posted on 03/15/2017 7:39:48 PM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States)
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To: MtnClimber

Science uses the scientific method.

Climate “science” does not use the scientific method.

Any questions?


4 posted on 03/15/2017 7:42:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: MtnClimber

When the weather is _________ than average, it is proof of the climate change models.
When the _________ ice sheet is __________, it is consistent with models showing climate change.


5 posted on 03/15/2017 7:45:14 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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To: MtnClimber

Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.


6 posted on 03/15/2017 7:46:12 PM PDT by Fungi (Five genera of fungi are responsible for 90% of all inhaled fungi. The remaining 10% will be named.)
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Typo in that title.

They wrote ‘Flawed’ when they should have written ‘Fraud’


7 posted on 03/15/2017 7:47:15 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: MtnClimber

Warm globally, cool locally! LOL!


8 posted on 03/15/2017 7:47:38 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: MtnClimber

They are so bad because the science doesn’t support their assertion that CO2 levels cause an increase in temperature, so they try to manipulate their models to support that assertion.


9 posted on 03/15/2017 7:49:09 PM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: MtnClimber

“climate change” is a hoax.It is an unsubstantiated mythIt is child abuse to teach these lies.SAVE THE CHILDREN!!!


10 posted on 03/15/2017 7:49:38 PM PDT by WENDLE (We said REPEAL the socialism NOT replace with other socialism.!! RINOCARE GOES NOWHERE)
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To: MtnClimber

We need your money up front. You can’t afford the slight chance that we may be wrong.


11 posted on 03/15/2017 7:50:37 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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Mathematically, it’s an equation in too many variables, most of which - the most critical of which - are completely unknown, and can only be plugged with successively lesser degrees of accuracy.


12 posted on 03/15/2017 7:50:56 PM PDT by onedoug
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None of the climate models include any variables for natural climate change.

None.

GIGO.


13 posted on 03/15/2017 7:53:20 PM PDT by JPJones (George Washington's Tariffs were Patriotic. Build a Wall and Build a Wall of tariffs.)
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To: onedoug

You are exactly correct.


14 posted on 03/15/2017 7:54:53 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: MtnClimber

We know why the data is so flawed .. because they have to phony it up in order to make it fit their narrative.

THEY KNOW THE DATA IS PHONY ..!!!!


15 posted on 03/15/2017 7:57:29 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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Excellent article - hold that thought, and thanks for posting!


16 posted on 03/15/2017 7:59:17 PM PDT by 88keys (this is still no time to go wobbly)
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When the ice sheet advanced, retreated, advanced and finally retreated there were no cars.

Sea levels rose and fell. Humans walked to Great Britain, to Alaska and to Sweden on land bridges, due to lower sea levels.

There were no cars or factories or other man caused calamities then, either.

How do we suppose mother nature did those things, without mankind’s help?


17 posted on 03/15/2017 7:59:43 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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When the ice sheet advanced, retreated, advanced and finally retreated there were no cars.

Sea levels rose and fell. Humans walked to Great Britain, to Alaska and to Sweden on land bridges, due to lower sea levels.

There were no cars or factories or other man caused calamities then, either.

How do we suppose mother nature did those things, without mankind’s help?


18 posted on 03/15/2017 7:59:49 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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[Gina McCarthy, who ran the agency under President Obama, bewailed the danger global warming poses “to all of us who call Earth home,” and said she couldn’t “imagine what additional information [Pruitt] might want from scientists” in order to understand that. ]

How about being able to accurately predict ANYTHING AT ALL using the “theory” ? Past warming periods completely disprove AGW, and none of the predictions of the past 30 years have come true, so calling it “science” is nonsense.


19 posted on 03/15/2017 8:01:15 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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There
Is
No
Science
of
the
Climate


20 posted on 03/15/2017 8:02:25 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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