TED Talk on the efficacy of climate models

[mentalfloss]

Some good points made all around about the complexity of what they are trying to capture along with projections for the next 100 years.

Gavin Schmidt: The emergent patterns of climate change - YouTube

 

[Walter]

They've never been wrong before.

 

[mentalfloss]

Models have never been wrong?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Models have never been wrong?

Only in who they marry.

 

[mentalfloss]

Rimshot

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Rimshot

"And if I laugh at any mortal thing
'Tis only that I may not be bored witless with yet another stupid-a*s global warming "debate."

--Apologies to Lord Byron

 

[mentalfloss]

The funny thing is that this thread is not directed at global warming.

It's just about climate models.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

The funny thing is that this thread is not directed at global warming.

It's just about climate models.

True. We've never seen threads divert back to the same-old, same-old before.

 

[petros]

The funny thing is that this thread is not directed at global warming.

Don't you mean fool proof Climate Change where if it cools it can still be called change?

 

[mentalfloss]

True. We've never seen threads divert back to the same-old, same-old before.

Of course we have.

I just hope that people keep their focus on the efforts made toward accuracy.

 

[petros]

Until oceans can be modelled, atmospheric climate models are useless.

 

[Locutus]

The funny thing is that this thread is not directed at global warming.

It's just about climate models.

of course.

hmmm...man-made global warming > ok then, global warming > well, what we mean is climate change > or rather, climate models > ah, fuk it all, anything to do with climate > random word generator

:lol:

 

[captain morgan]

The funny thing is that this thread is not directed at global warming.

It's just about climate models.

Can I assume that this thread is about the modelling process in general?

Business models, community devlpt models, model airplanes?

Something tells me that the aforementioned actually have a basis in reality when compared to the tragic record of the eco-models expounded