Science!
Lack of snow, heavy snow -- Everything proves global warming!
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/10/video-ms-nbcs-brewer-claims-heavy-snowfall-proves-global-warming/
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/10/breitbart-tv-looks-back-on-byrd-boxer-klobuchar-blaming-lack-of-snow-on-agw/
What an embarrassing farce. The climate models are so poorly specified, and the errors of measurement are so large, that you might as well make predictions from a Magic 8-Ball.
Actually, a Magic 8-Ball is better, because it always says something in particular, and everybody who looks at it can agree about what it says. Neither thing is true of today's climate models.
About 20 years ago, something like eight rings were discovered around Uranus. I asked a very accomplished colleague in the math department about the mathematics involved in describing the formation and behavior of those rings. He said that the math was fine for one ring, and it was OK for two rings. But once you got to three rings (maybe it was four, I don't quite remember), you could just throw up your hands and forget about it.
The point is that the ring system of Uranus is simplicity itself compared with what climate science, some of it, has claimed to have accomplished. The idea that there could now exist a Consensus about climate change based on Completed Science is laughable on its face. The only people who could possibly buy into that idea are those who are driven by some agenda of personal gain or by an ideologically-driven craving to see social-economic change of a particular kind.
Byron
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/10/video-ms-nbcs-brewer-claims-heavy-snowfall-proves-global-warming/
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/10/breitbart-tv-looks-back-on-byrd-boxer-klobuchar-blaming-lack-of-snow-on-agw/
What an embarrassing farce. The climate models are so poorly specified, and the errors of measurement are so large, that you might as well make predictions from a Magic 8-Ball.
Actually, a Magic 8-Ball is better, because it always says something in particular, and everybody who looks at it can agree about what it says. Neither thing is true of today's climate models.
About 20 years ago, something like eight rings were discovered around Uranus. I asked a very accomplished colleague in the math department about the mathematics involved in describing the formation and behavior of those rings. He said that the math was fine for one ring, and it was OK for two rings. But once you got to three rings (maybe it was four, I don't quite remember), you could just throw up your hands and forget about it.
The point is that the ring system of Uranus is simplicity itself compared with what climate science, some of it, has claimed to have accomplished. The idea that there could now exist a Consensus about climate change based on Completed Science is laughable on its face. The only people who could possibly buy into that idea are those who are driven by some agenda of personal gain or by an ideologically-driven craving to see social-economic change of a particular kind.
Byron
posted by Byron | Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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